It Is Possible That Mark Silva Is Not Enjoying His Trip With The Vice President

From various pool reports filed by the Chicago Tribune’s Mark Silva as he travels with Vice President Cheney.

  • “…our friendly base bus driver couldn’t find these Koele Barracks last night, after our planned brief stop at Bagram turned into a sleep-over. After we nearly had a collision on the tarmac with a fuel tanker, our bus wandered around the base in search of someone who knew where the barracks were.”

  • ” They walked toward us speaking cheerfully, but the VP did not appear inclined to even recognize us standing there at the end taking pictures and waiting for crumbs, so we asked, how was the mess?”

  • “There really was no need for showers this morning, because our plastic-bag chock-full USO care packages came complete with a sealed plastic bag of ‘Operation USA All-Purpose Body Wipes.'”

  • “In
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