Cheney' s Plane Named After Famous Rapist....

[rfranklin]

Spirit of Strom Thurmond carries Cheney into, out of hot spots

By Mark Silva

Chicago Tribune

(MCT)

MUSCAT, Oman _Vice President Dick Cheney rode an Airstream trailer into Pakistan and Afghanistan, and he rode the Airstream out of Kabul wearing cowboy boots.

He also traveled in the belly of "The Spirit of Strom Thurmond."

After flying more than halfway around the world in the standard-issue Air Force Two, a military version of the Boeing 757-200 whose electrical system had started acting up someplace between Sydney and Singapore, the vice president boarded a much less identifiable military transport for quick trips in and out of true hot spots: Islamabad, Pakistan, and Bagram Air Base and Kabul in Afghanistan.

This particular C-17, a hulking gray cargo jet out of Charleston, S.C., is dubbed The Spirit of Strom Thurmond, with the name painted decoratively in black above the front passenger door where Cheney boarded.
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[Gatchaman]

1. Shouldn't it be painted decoratively in white?

After all, it is the spirit of Strom Thurmond.

[librechik]

2. can't make this stuff up--

and just noticed Rapist only one letter off Racist.