Bidenites - IS anyone here? Joe might be in danger in Iraq

[jillan]

i need someone to freak out with.

[jillan]

1. Here's the news - there were Mortars shot where he is right now..

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4060371

[jillan]

2. CNN reporting that he is okay. Phew!!!!!!

:cry: <- those are happy tears...I was really worried.

[gateley]

3. Me! I'm here! I just heard about it on MSNBC and came here to see if it

was posted (it was http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6553529). Jeez -- they were showing a clip of Joe and I heard the word "attack" and my blood ran cold.

I'm (we're all, I know) Soooooooooo relieved he's okay.

:pals:

[gateley]

4. Wow --I just saw the time of your post -- I just heard about it a few minutes

ago!

[jillan]

6. It took that long to get any word.

Nothing has been mentioned about the people he was traveling with.

Flipping between cnn and msnbc, they are not even talking about it. I had to read that Joe was okay from Sabra - another DUer.

[jillan]

5. Here's a pic of Joe arriving in Iraq-

Get your butt home NOW Joe, and take all Americans with you...enough of that hellhole!

[gateley]

7. Lookin' good and I like the guys with the automatic weapons guarding him. Miss

the leather bomber jacket, though. :7

[murbley40]

8. VP Biden /Danger

Hello Everyone!  So glad Joe is alright.  Check out the group
often without saying anything,but this 
time I had to let you know I was with you.

[murbley40]

9. VP/Danger

delete

[jillan]

10. Hi Murbley - so good to see you!!!

:pals:

[PatSeg]

15. Hi there !

It's been so long!!!

[jillan]

11. Msnbc just reported that EVERYONE in his entourage is okay.

I can't believe how exhausted I am over this.

I was really worried about him...can you imagine how Jill Biden felt. Oh man.....

[Inuca]

12. Do you remember

the incident, I think it was in early 2008, when the chopper Biden, Kerry, and Hagel were travelling in was forced down by a snow storm? That was SCARY. This one too I guess, I just found out about it online (I am at work, so no TV).

[PatSeg]

16. I remember that

Kerry made some joke about Biden, but I can't remember it now. That was quite an adventure.

[murbley40]

13. Hi

I just checked in to see if He was okay, I figured I would be able to find out here. How is everyone?

[PatSeg]

14. I'm so far behind today

I've been having issue with both the computer and the TV. I saw Jill comment at Facebook, but then the computer wouldn't connect.

Glad to hear he's okay!

[elleng]

17. U.S. Embassy Under Fire During Biden’s Iraq Visit.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/16/world/middleeast/16iraq.html?_r=1&hp

[PatSeg]

18. It's pretty disappointing that this story

got little if any coverage today on TV.

The article said: "But word of his arrival at Baghdad International Airport at 4:20 on a hot, dusty afternoon had been widely broadcast." But not here apparently!

[elleng]

19. Rachel caught him!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x371993

[Muttocracy]

21. thanks ellen nt

[Muttocracy]

20. Hey Jillian, I just saw the news

Casually reading a newspaper at lunch and stumbled across "Baghdad Green Zone Attacked During Biden Visit"...

Scurried here and other sites to see what I could find.

what I found on NY Times today:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/17/world/middleeast/17iraq.html?ref=world

yesterday:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/16/world/middleeast/16iraq.html?_r=1&ref=world

[jillan]

22. Thanks for posting that link. I hadn't had a chance to check the news all day.