Seinfeld/Curb Your Enthusiasm's Larry David on Bush's Guard service

[vi5]

This rules. Typical Larry David snide sarcasm.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/15/opinion/15DAVI.html
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Even though the National Guard and Army Reserve see combat today, it rankles me that people assume it was some kind of waltz in the park back then. If only. Once a month, for an entire weekend — I'm talking eight hours Saturday and Sunday — we would meet in a dank, cold airplane hangar. The temperature in that hangar would sometimes get down to 40 degrees, and very often I had to put on long underwear, which was so restrictive I suffered from an acute vascular disorder for days afterward. Our captain was a strict disciplinarian who wouldn't think twice about not letting us wear sneakers or breaking up a poker game if he was in ill humor. Once, they took us into the woods and dropped us off with nothing but compasses and our wits. One wrong move and I could've wound up on Queens Boulevard. Fortunately, I had the presence of mind to find my way out of there and back to the hangar. Some of my buddies did not fare as well and had to call their parents to come and get them.
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[Bunny]

1. Now THAT's a funny article!

Larry David is a hoot.

[cubsfan6969]

2. Larry David is hilarious

Dubya is gonna get buried

[sadiesworld]

3. Thanks, I needed that.

[ithacan]

4. cartoon of shrub at Vietnam War wall in DC

this reminds me of the political cartoon, just saw it here at DU this past week, but can't find it now.

Bush, talking to the names on the Vietnam War memorial in DC, saying something like, "the texas national guard wasn't a picnic either, you know" ...

what f***ing hypocrites!

[Submariner]

5. The Toon courtesy of nostamj

at http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=111&topic_id=17950

[ithacan]

7. yup, that's the one. It is excellent

so succinct and pinpoints the essence of the issues involved.

[donhakman]

9. I was 1st at this one

[Beetwasher]

6. "One wrong move and I could've wound up on Queens Boulevard."

If you've never been to Queens, you have no idea how funny that line is...

Too funny...

[DoYouEverWonder]

10. Me too,

that road is a major jungle. You take your life in your hands everytime you try to cross it.

[acmavm]

8. I just love Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry David is an absolute genius.

But this article, in the New York Times no less, almost qualifies him as a national treasure. To be so blunt and honest about being in the Guards while others were fighting and dying in Viet Nam shows an honesty that I don't know how to describe. Plus the way he does it, with his understated sarcastic wit is absolutely damning to Bush's* claims of being a patriot who served in the defense of his country.