Bremer's Security Detail--Goons in the Whole Foods Parking Lot

[MADem]

This is incredible, indicative, and instructive. What a bunch of ASSHOLES!!! http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64615-2005Jan11.html

Former Iraq pooh-bah L. Paul Bremer is used to dangerous situations, but how threatening can it be to shop in Bethesda? Consider Washington journalist Lisa Newman's encounter with Bremer's Secret Service detail last week in the parking lot outside Whole Foods on River Road. Newman tells us that agents berated her after she loaded groceries and her 2-year-old daughter into her car, which was parked next to Bremer's two-SUV motorcade.

"I was just trying to get into my car," Newman says, fuming. But a female agent, guarding one of the black Suburbans, warned her to wait. "I told her my child was in there alone," Newman recounts. "She puts her hand up as if to block me. I don't really know what's going on, and then I see a man rush over and realize it's Paul Bremer. He ducks into the vehicle and smiles at me."

It turns out that Bremer, former head of the American occupation in Iraq, had stopped at the plaza Friday afternoon on the very urgent business of buying a birthday card.

Finally in her Honda Accord, Newman backed out and briefly blocked the motorcade. That's when another agent got worked up as well, she says: "He's screaming at me, 'Move it! You better move it!' I was amazed and furious at the same time. . . . I thought, 'If this is how they treat people in Baghdad, no wonder they hate Americans!' "

[rodeodance]

1. so bremner has secret service? umm...

[DoYouEverWonder]

3. I would assume we get to pay

for this assholes protection?

[Ganja Ninja]

5. I wonder if they extend the same service to ...

Rush, Hannity and O'Reilly?

[bluestateguy]

2. "L. Paul" Bremer is a little sniveling bitch

What kind of a name is "L. Paul"?

[area51]

4. L. Paul

Maybe the "L." stands for "Loser".


"Prosperity is just around the corner." -- Herbert Hoover
"The economy has turned a corner." -- GW Bush

Herbert Hoover = GW Bush

Neither man cared about the Depression their economic policies created.

[Quakerfriend]

6. This is unbelievable!

Now I've heard everything!

It's almost as if the gov't goons know that the public is going to rise up soon! --They are totally irrational!!

[proudbluestater]

7. How to understand why so many nasty Rethugs are afforded

Secret Service protection and it's normally the Democrats who die mysteriously with zero protection.

Are WE paying for this too? Since when did using Secret Service to guard political appointees become legal?