Need full title of Bush the Deserter book. I'm gonna buy s few copies.

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I think all of those who can should buy a few copies.

The reason the Swift Boat story will stick around a while longer is because of the book sales. The GOP has made sure that book is a topseller so it forces a news story.

Let's do the same with the Deserter book (need name of book and author).

And maybe drop off some copies at VA hospital waiting rooms.

[flpoljunkie]

1. "Deserter: GWB War on Military Families, Veterans... by Ian Williams

Deserter : George Bush's War on Military Families, Veterans, and His Past
by Ian William

Paperback, cost $10.36, available on amazon.com

Book Description

Deserter looks objectively at the military record of George W. Bush, his role in the armed forces, and his treatment of them. Over the past year, Bush’s military poses have been contrived to convince the American public that he is a National Security President. Others have found his playacting less convincing. While George W. Bush supported the Vietnam War, his contribution was to enlist in a nepotistic unit of the Texas National Air Guard, which, short of World War III, was guaranteed never to see military action. Even in this safe position, Lieutenant Bush broke under the strain and went AWOL for the best part of a year. In contrast, American National Guardsmen have not only been called up for frontline action in Iraq, but they have had their terms of service extended. While the military budget soars, the war is being fought with a dangerously inadequate number of troops. The dead and disabled are shipped home under cover of darkness; those who eventually return in one piece find that their veterans’ medical benefits and facilities are being axed. Deserter strips away the illusion of Bush as "commander-in-chief" to reveal a hypocrite who has betrayed his troops and his country.

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2. Thanks.

Wasn't familiar with the author.

I think I'll order it through amazon. At least it will show some movement.

[buycitgo]

3. why use amazon, if you can get it someplace else?

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4. What's selling on amazon makes news.

Lesson taken from the right.

[AirAmFan]

5. He writes columns for The Nation, archived HERE

Here's a snippet of his latest, with links to prior columns

From http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040816&s=williams

"The disappearance of Bush's federal payroll records mirror the evidence of Texas records going down the memory hole.... The core issue is that George W. Bush, who campaigned eagerly for Republican pro-war candidates, joined the National Guard, ticking the box to refuse overseas service, at the height of the Tet Offensive, in what Senator Robert Byrd has called the "War of His Generation."

He did so with the aid of nepotistic influence, jumping a long line, despite a 25 percent score on his pilot aptitude test--and despite a series of driving convictions that should have required a special waiver. He was commissioned an officer despite having no pilot experience, no time in the ROTC, and without attending Officer Training School. And then he went missing for a year, and as a reward was allowed to terminate his service early so he could go to Harvard Business School.

His use of the National Guard to escape Vietnam should have inhibited him and his party from successively attacking the patriotism and martial virtues of triple amputee Senator Max Cleland and John Kerry--having earlier pointed fingers at Bill Clinton. But going AWOL, to the extent of deserting for a year even from this surrogate service, makes him doubly vulnerable. Which may of course account for the seeming fungibility of his paperwork, even though, in truth, these people have no shame."

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6. Thanks much. Haven't been familiar with his work. I will be now.

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