Reply #6: I'm sorry, but it just frosts my [View All]

[July]

ass that Bush apparently got to make up the rules as he went along while Guard troops and everyone else in Iraq are getting stop-lossed, redeployed there or in Afghanistan, and seeing benefits cuts (and when they get killed, ignored). Oh, yeah, and when they freak out and seek help they're charged with cowardice.

Bush's explanations that have been offered over the years include the novel ideas (only applicable in this circumstance, not to form a precedent, sound familiar?) that you (and by "you" I mean "he") can choose where to show up, skip a required physical because you can't see your personal physician, choose to stop flying, cut a deal to leave the Guard early to go to grad school, get a commission without any of the normal experience that precedes it in every other case, and offer torn points totals, blurry pay summaries, and DENTAL exam records as some kind of official proof of honorable service. (Again, regular soldiers, not to mention the Democratic candidates with military service backgrounds, don't seem to have this weird paperwork problem.) Add in the strange case of the Texas driving record and you have

A STEAMING LOAD OF CRAP.