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...gallon drums, then rigged up a nose cone from an old hopper. "They got an old car seat and put that in the drum, and then they went looking for an astronaut,'' Arneth recalls. A runty stockman was chosen and inserted, too drunk to protest, into the cramped cockpit. In case he got thirsty on the moon, the men hung a water bag beside the car seat. Then they put some gelignite under the rocket, ran a trail of petrol to it, counted down from 10 and dropped a lit match onto the "fuse...
...there in the cockpit of that airplane coming into Baghdad," the President told the press corps assembled on the White House lawn after his dash into and out of the war zone last week. "It was an unbelievable, unbelievable feeling." In fact, George W. Bush's body language-let's call it the full jaunty-was reminiscent of his last, infamous cockpit trip, onto the deck of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln in May 2003 to announce the "end" of major combat operations in Iraq, beneath a mission accomplished sign. His public language is more cautious than it used...
...local sectarian conflict-because of American incompetence. If the President had not allowed General Tommy Franks to "cut and run"-that is, to close his headquarters and begin drawing down the U.S. military presence on May 1, 2003, the very same day as Bush's first cockpit stunt-the U.S. forces might have had a better chance to contain the insurgency. But those are complicated arguments to make in a political campaign. And even the wildest accusations, like Rove's disgraceful Murtha gambit, will force a candidate onto the defensive...
...when the thing actually happened, no one on any side was sure of exactly what to do. The triumphant but clueless students would hang on to the 52 frightened, angry Americans for 444 days, all the while making hapless attempts to prove that the embassy had been a cockpit of intrigue and espionage. Although for the most part the hostages were not subjected to torture, their detention and humiliation were in themselves an outrage and came complete with occasional beatings and sham executions. Spectacularly uncooperative types like Michael Metrinko, a political officer who could insult his guards (and their mothers...
...still would like to see United 93 [April 17]. That plane's story was the only relatively "good" news on that horrible day. When passenger Todd Beamer said, "Are you guys ready? Let's roll!" and led those heroes forward in their charge toward the terrorists in the cockpit, he was partly inspired by a Teddy Roosevelt quotation that his wife later found on his desk at home. That speech praised the person "who strives valiantly ? spends himself in a worthy cause ? and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly." This movie...