Medals of Freedom and Cargo Planes

This morning's New York Times showed President Bush awarding Medals of Freedom to three key players in the Iraq war: Tommy Franks, Paul Bremer, and George Tenet. Several pages back was a much smaller article announcing the expanded use of cargo planes in place of trucks in Iraq. It is simply too dangerous, a year and nine months into the war, to move cargo around in Iraq, so we are using cargo planes instead.

From the New York Times:

WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 - President Bush on Tuesday bestowed the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, on three of the central architects and executors of the war in Iraq, one of the president's strongest efforts yet at putting a formal stamp of success on a war whose outcome is still a question.


Doug Mills/The New York Times used without permission.

President Bush bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom Tuesday on three central figures of the Iraq war: from left, Gen. Tommy R. Franks, who led the invasion; L. Paul Bremer III, who led the occupation; and George J. Tenet, who as intelligence director built a case for war.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 - Responding to the threat of roadside bombings and ambushes of American ground convoys in Iraq, the Air Force is sharply expanding its airlift of equipment and supplies to bases inside the country to reduce the amount of military cargo hauled over land routes, Air Force officials said Tuesday.


Pool photo by Maurice McDonald used without permission

Using transport planes like the C-130, above, and the C-17, the Air Force is planning to expand its airlift of equipment and supplies to Iraq.

Anything incongruous or amiss here??


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