Posted on 10/19/2015 9:07:00 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Yes. Yes it was.
A ‘D’ student? Source, please
In a free and rational society,the accuser has the burden of proof. You failed in that task.
A leftist military historian once told me that George Bush faced absolutely no chance of action in Vietnam because the F-102 on which he trained never saw service in that war. I made a couple of phone calls and did five minutes of research to refute his claim. That was eight or ten years ago. To this day, he refuses to acknowledge that he was wrong.
Anyway, Ken Bentsen, the son of 1970 Texas Democrat US Senate nominee and George H. W. Bush’s 1970 general election opponent, Lloyd Bentsen, was in the same Air National Guard unit! Was Lloyd trying pull strings to keep his son out of Vietnam?
I don’t think so, we are not as stupid as you think.
What kind of chemically treated weed are these lying dipshitz smoking?
George W. Bush made ONE D in college, a 69 in astronomy.
He had better grades in college than either John Kerry or Al Gore.
According to members of his study group at Harvard, W was one of the leaders of the group.
An analysis of Kerry’s Navy aptitude test showed that Bush had a higher IQ than Kerry. who blamed his lackluster performance on drinking.
According to records and the group’s commander, there were several openings when W joined the ANG to fly the F-102, known as one of the most dangerous planes to fly in the AF.
His commander listed him as ‘an excellent pilot.”
Both his commander and his wingman/roommate said W (and the roommate) volunteered for Vietnam, but were turned down due to lack of flying hours, and the fact things were winding down as far as pilots over there.
Where does Trump stand on this?
Most people realized that this guy manufactured many of his stories with slant, fabrications, manipulations and the like for most of his career. He was putting out what the left wanted and it always slid by.
Now he is shown for the propagandist that he always was and they can’t stand it. They have to get someone to make a movie pretending he didn’t lie and fabricate. LOL.
When did you stop beating MrsEdd?
Rush: “Liberalism is a mental disorder”
It sure is!
I stand corrected.
To get into the Guard, generally, was not a gimme - but there were exceptions for those who applied for, and qualified for, particular specialties. Especially fighter pilot. Being a pilot trainee in the Guard was, by all reports essentially to be on active duty for a year or more. Because you’re useless until you have a real competency. So getting in as a pilot trainee wasn’t necessarily something it took pull to get. People weren’t lined up around the block applying for that. Besides, you could get killed in an operational accident right there in Texas, without going to combat.Meanwhile, Kerry was a year earlier than Bush, and it’s not known whether he actually volunteered for active duty. And it’s pretty clear that he got out of Vietnam ASAP.
In any event, by the time the Burkett “memos” are dated, the Air Force was pulling pilots back from Vietnam - leading to a glut of veteran aviators wanting flying time in the Guard, at the very time that the plane Bush was qualified to fly was being phased out of the Guard. At that point Bush was not an asset to the Guard, and the Guard was happy to allow Bush to drop out - which he was happy to do because he wasn’t going to get any flying time.
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