Bush Goal Was Dodging War - Newsday

[TacticalPeek]

Bush Goal Was Dodging War

February 15, 2004

Records released by the White House show that George Bush attended some drills in the Texas Air National Guard in the four months of 1972 while the air losses in Vietnam continued.

On George Bush's last paid day in the Texas Air National Guard, on April 16, 1972, the air war in Vietnam had turned furious because Richard Nixon had ordered large strikes against North Vietnam, the first since 1968. Nixon was certain that bombing would crumble North Vietnam and give him a smashing victory in the war.

Bush was on duty for 26 days from January 1 until April 16. On that last day in Texas, April 16, 1972, the front pages around the nation, which George Bush could see because he was here, far from the shooting, had a photo of Maj. Gale Albert Despiegler, just captured after being shot down over Quang Binh, North Vietnam.

Despiegler would be in the same prison with John McCain, who spent five and a half years in a Hanoi jail and was tortured. He tried suicide twice.

Bush Goal Was Dodging War


Gotta love that headline.

:evilgrin:

[Terwilliger]

1. whoa!!

You think he knew he might get called up, and happened to get grounded at the same time?

How would the Republicans support George W. Bush if he had a YELLOW STREAK down his back? It's already apparent he couldn't be enough of a man like Kerry and McCain to fight and die for his country...now it looks like he cowered and ran :eyes:

[indepat]

8. They know who, what he is, and has/has not done, but they don't care!

He's their man who can be counted on to zealously implement their ideology and PNAC agenda.

[LiberalFighter]

15. But bush* doesn't read newspapers /sarcasm/

[Jawja]

20. "Trying to get out of harm's way...."

AWOL in 1972; AWOL on September 11.

[TacticalPeek]

2. Pardon, mighta put this in LBN by mistake,

though the emerging views of Shrub's past and character are kinda like news, unfortunately.

[kanrok]

3. My favorite line:

"After that April 16, Bush went to Alabama and that pretty much ended his fighting career although he did battle cavities in a dentist's chair at Maxwell Field, Ala."
Go Jimmy!

[TacticalPeek]

4. And he can prove it! LOL. My favorite:

"What we are sure of is that we have a commander in chief who plays soldier with other people's lives."

[tridim]

10. He was battling the "Cavity Creeps"

That 'splains it.

[rhino91063]

5. WOW this article is AWESOME!

We need more men like Jimmy B. speaking his mind!

[mhr]

6. This Says It All - This Is What The Freepers Cannot Duck

Snip ......

"What matters to all our senses is that he is a president who struts around as a war hero, who dodged Vietnam and most of the National Guard drills and who with less shame than anybody we have had maybe ever, sends your kids to a war that he ducked as if he was allowed to do it by birth."

Snip ......

[indepat]

7. How could any reasoning , thinking person not arrive at basically the same

conclusions? Sadly, it matters little to his supporters in the Congress, the Federal court system, most of the mainstream media, the Fed Chairman who now shills for his tax cuts if funded by reducing social security benefits and his base of patrons and other zealots/wackos/nuts of a varied assortment.

[wryter2000]

9. Wow

Bang! Ka-POW! Smash! Punch. Kay-OH!

[Frank_Person]

11. Thanks Jimmy and thanks for the link!

[Media_Lies_Daily]

12. BAM!! Let's kick it up a notch! Thanks, Newsday!

[DuctapeFatwa]

13. Well, he doesn't do that any more, now does he?

:+

[0007]

14. A very powerful article

Thank you for the link

[laylah]

16. Whoa!

Way to go, Jimmy! Thanks for the link. :kick: 'n it

Jenn

[sonias]

17. bu$h battled cavities in a dentist's chair

I loved the tone of this editorial. There is no doubt in any of our minds that bu$h was and is a chikenhawk at heart. You have to be able to place him and what he was doing when others were dying in his place. The son of privilege wasn't going to sign up for combat duty and could barely be coerced to show up for his stateside guard duty. Yet today he expects families in the guard and reserves to take one for him.

Honor and dignity are not two traits I ever think of when I think of this fortunate son.

Sonia

[MIMStigator]

18. Cowardly war dodger

what an asshole

[grasswire]

19. excellent point

There are draft dodgers and fewer war dodgers.

EXCELLENT POINT.

Bush was a war dodger.

[boobooday]

21. Being a Republican

Is beginning to require more and more mental gymnastics, trying to rationalize away the TRUTH that is staring them in the face.

Will they implode?

http://www.wgoeshome.com

[TacticalPeek]

22. Kick

his sorry whistle ass out of our White House.

[TacticalPeek]

23. Kick the President Day!

Shrub was no fighter pilot, he was a quitter pilot.


:evilgrin:

[Chovexani]

24. The chickenhawk that flew the coop (n/t)