"I'm not serving a war criminal in my restaurant"

[babylonsister]

Carole Greenwood, I salute you! :patriot:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/08/AR2009020802257_3.html

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The Customers You Have

"The Gamble," our colleague Thomas E. Ricks's excellent sequel to the extraordinary "Fiasco," will draw the usual plaudits for its insider account of Iraq as seen through the eyes of the top military officers who ran the war in the last three years. Reviewers will focus on strategy disagreements, policy fights and such.

But those who don't care about policy -- especially those living in this area -- will be dazzled by fascinating local color. For example, Ricks recounts former defense secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's visit shortly after he was booted out of the Pentagon, to Buck's Fishing and Camping, an upscale Washington eatery.

As an example of the "loathing Rumsfeld had generated" he writes that chef-owner Carole Greenwood told her co-owner, James Alefantis, to kick Rumsfeld out.

"I'm not serving a war criminal in my restaurant," she said.

Alefantis said that she's there to serve people and Rumsfeld was there with his family. Greenwood relented, Ricks writes, "but only on the condition that someone else cook Rumsfeld's meal."

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[wtmusic]

1. Probably not the first time it happened

so Rummy had learned to drag his family along for cover.

[LynneSin]

2. Oh I'd serve his food but I'd probably add some extra flavoring to it

I can conjour up some really big hockers

[peekaloo]

3. Did he ask for his loogies "on the side"? nt

[Lasher]

4. Iraqis were there with their families.

In Iraq getting blown killed, that is. There was nothing sacred about Rummy's family being there with him at the restaurant.

[hankthecrank]

5. while cooking the steak it just kept falling on the floor maybe ten or eleven times ops

[Richard D]

6. And I really didn't mean to step on it . . .

Really I didn't. And there definitely wasn't any dog shit on my shoes!