what can you say about this?

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from Mother Jones

The Guard on Bush:
"George Walker Bush is one member of the younger generation who doesn't get his kicks from pot or hashish or speed.... As far as kicks are concerned, Lt. Bush gets his from the roaring afterburner of the F-102."
Texas Air National Guard press release, March 1970

YEAH, a roaring afterburner lighting up some CRACK!




hadn't seen that one.....these I've seen:

Terry McAuliffe, they're coming after you hard.

try these

Bush on lessons learned:
"I learned some good lessons from Vietnam. First, there must be a clear mission. Secondly, the politics ought to stay out of fighting a war. There was too much politics during the Vietnam War."
Associated Press, March 2002

doesn't he have a WAY with words?

Bush on sacrifice:
"I've been to war. I've raised twins. If I
had a choice, I'd rather go to war."
Houston Chronicle, January 2002

Bush on commitment:
"I, George W. Bush, upon the successful completion of pilot training, plan to return to my unit and fulfill my obligation."
Air National Guard pledge, 1968

somebody posted a copy of the paper he signed above

http://www.motherjones.com/news/outfront/2003/01/ma_217_01.html

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1. makes one proud.....

[DemoTex]

2. "I learned some good lessons from Vietnam"

Fuck him. Liar. Opportunist. How dare he appropriate the experience of all of us who went, and the near-60,000 who died, for his petty, transparent, and ultimately dangerous (much more dangerous than the 'Nam, of which he knows nothing!) political agenda?

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3. from some website

In a news conference on 11 October 2001, President George W. Bush said "we learned some very important lessons in Vietnam." All members of the U.S. armed forces should take a moment and familiarize themselves with the important lessons that George Bush learned during the Vietnam War. Do everything you can to encourage the men and women of the U.S. armed services to follow the example of their Commander-in-Chief when called upon to go into battle.

In May 1968, American soldiers were dying in combat in Southeast Asia at a rate of about 350 per week. George W. Bush was twelve days away from losing his student draft deferment (meaning that he'd be eligible for draft into the Vietnam War) when he abruptly decided that he should join the 147th Fighter Group of the Texas Air National Guard. In spite of the very long waiting list and having only scored the lowest acceptable grade on the pilot aptitude qualification test, this son of a Houston-based congressman managed to enlist on the same day that he applied, and a special ceremony was staged so he could be photographed swearing in for duty (a second special photo opportunity was arranged when Bush was commissioned a second lieutenant as Bush's father the congressman stood proudly in the background). According to Shrub's former commanding officer, Bush "said he wanted to fly just like his daddy." Other members of the Texas Air National Guard at the time included the aide to the speaker of the Texas House and at least seven members of the Dallas Cowboys professional football team; Bush's 147th Fighter Group was known as the "Champagne Unit" because it also included the sons of future Senator Lloyd Bentsen and Texas Governor John Connally.

Immediately following his promotion to second lieutenant, Bush was put on inactive duty status and spent more than two months in Florida working for Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, Edward J. Gurney. When he wasn't handing out Gurney press releases and making sure that the reporters didn't oversleep, Bush returned to Houston for weekend Guard duty. In early 1970, Bush rented a one-bedroom apartment at the exclusive Chateaux Dijon complex in Houston, a building with six swimming pools where Bush played all-day water volleyball games and dated many of the single women who lived there.

In 1973, as Bush's daddy was being considered for a new job as chairman of Nixon's Republican National Committee, Dubya secured an early release from the National Guard to start at Harvard Business School, eight months short of his full six-year hitch, and transferred to a reserve unit in Boston for the rest of his time. "One of my first recollections of him," says classmate Marty Kahn, "was sitting in class and hearing the unmistakable sound of someone spitting tobacco. I turned around and there was George sitting in the back of the room in his bomber jacket spitting in a cup." Bush's acceptance into Harvard Business School surprised some, since he had graduated from Yale a full five years before.

quite a pretty picture, isn't it, disgracing his "service" in that jacket....sitting in class, HOCKING tobacco juice into a frigging CUP?

presidential enough for you, Mr. Gillespie?

http://neworleans.indymedia.org/news/2003/12/746_comment.php

[DemoTex]

4. Harvard deserved him ...

If they accepted him ...

What a pig.