Reply #9: Caller asked about Bush quote about shooting himself with a shotgun [View All]

[Dudley_DUright]

(he thought it was his foot, but he got it wrong). Unfortunately, Al had not heard about this and doubted it was true, but here is the quote:

In 1994, the President told the Houston Chronicle, in relation to his joining the National Guard, 'I was not prepared to shoot my eardrum out with a shotgun in order to get a deferment, nor was I willing to go to Canada, so I chose to better myself by learning how to fly airplanes.’ It sounds like the President, himself, acknowledged that he went into the National Guard because he didn't want to go to Vietnam.”

http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2004/cyb20040211.asp