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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sandintoes who wrote (701786)	9/14/2005 11:55:09 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

"hogwash...who said that, and how did it get in the press?" Who said what? This? ----------------------------- ...the US Department of Agriculture had rejected the rations -- originally prepared for NATO troops -- out of fear they may be tainted with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), the agent thought to cause mad cow disease. Despite intensive efforts on the part of Germany's foreign ministry, the US government refused to give the plane flyover rights. But officers at a US base in Pensacola -- where previous German aid planes had landed -- believe there was another reason. In reality, the critics said, the Bush government was trying to avoid embarrassing images of Europeans making food relief deliveries to the States. After all, the meals had already been certified by NATO as BSE-free. Additionally, the same types of meals have been used in common deployments in Afghanistan, and they've also been consumed by American troops. Startled by a query from SPIEGEL on Friday evening, the US Embassy here in Berlin said the ban on the pre-prepared meals delivered from Germany would be lifted. Indeed, the shiny, new US Ambassador to Germany, William Timken, had only recently thanked the German government for the first 20,000 donated meals -- all of which have already been eaten by Katrina victims. --------------------------------------------------- Since it looks like there was a LOT of governmental and inter-governmental involvement... from the US Department of Agriculture, to the State Department, German Foreign Ministery, US Ambassador in Germany, German Ambassador in Washington, EU officials, unnamed 'officers at a US base in Pensacola', ATCs at the in-flight center, etc., etc., I don't have any wonder that the Press eventually sniffed the story out....