Bush credited for Guard drills (Kapow!)

The Boston Globe ^ | 2/10/04 | Walter V. Robinson

[SpinyNorman]

Matthews was long gone. Imus read the news and Bernard said "case closed!"

[SoCalPol]

OK, now lets see Howard Dean and Bill Clinton's military records. Oh I forgot, they didn't serve. To busy dodging the draft. And Kerry, doing the VCs work in the states.

[WorkingClassFilth]

I wanna see Krinton's medical records. Of course, latex gloves and a face mask will be needed in order to handle them.

[antiRepublicrat]

Yes, he had.

I may be misreading the timeline, but it appears he lost his flight status long before he applied to get out.

[GOPJ]

bump

[kcvl]

Hillary will never let Kerry win, NEVER. I am not going to worry about John Kerry because his true character will come out when the media gets out of the way (carrying his message for him). When the REAL debates start, President Bush will kick his butt. Besides, it wouldn't surprise me if John Kerry had an accident (no I am not kidding), then putting Hillary in the race. I wouldn't want to be him, that's for sure.

I can tell everyone that you would be surprised to learn who is supporting President Bush and how many are Democrats. You don't hear that because the media is trying to smear him. They think Vietnam is so damn important NOW because of what? They are the same people who spit on them when they returned. They are the people who threw eggs at them. They didn't support Vietnam then so why now? They didn't seem to give a rat's rear when one of theirs actually dodged the draft. Did Chris Matthews or David Greogory EVER serve their country? They are even too stupid to know how the National Guard works or what the requirements were back in the 70's. There is always a double standard for Republicans.

Remember "quagmire", "gravitas", and now it's "Vietnam", all talking points directly from Terry McAuliffe. I don't guess it matters that JOHN KERRY was "Hanoi" Jane Fondas bosom buddy.

Anyone who votes for a Democrat is now, considered by me, deserving of what they get.

[SuziQ]

But the documents seem unlikely to resolve questions about whether Bush shirked his duty during his tour as a fighter-interceptor pilot for the Texas Air Guard during the Vietnam War.

I don't think they see the danger in following that line of thought. If they did, they might have to realize that John F'ing Kerry also 'shirked' his duty by coming home to get into politics when his 'injuries' were not sufficient to merit the early departure from Vietnam. One might even say he only went to Vietnam to further his political ambitions and pulled the lightest duty he could just to put in his time and claim he'd served his country in a time of war. Did he spend LESS time in the military than President Bush?

[kcvl]

You wouldn't want the press to ACTUALLY look for something, would you? It is hilarious watching them TRY to question President Bush's press secretary as if he were hiding something from them. They are so used to having their "reports" called in to them, as they sit on their *sses. I wonder when was the last time they "reported" something that wasn't phoned in by a snitch? They have NO credibility, to me. There is nothing fair about the way they "report". What they are doing now is piling on President Bush (who has stopped terrorism, while the Clinton gang ignored it). I feel a lot safer now than when the Clintons were supposedly running the country. The more the press piles on, the more it strengthens President Bush. If the Democrats don't have anymore than "Bush was AWOL", they are pretty damn desperate with their "war hero".

[doug from upland]

How in the hell has the press been allowed to run with this crap as if it were a real issue? Hillary invented the VRWC. Could it be that there really is a VLWC, headed by aholes such as Michael Moore, George Soros, et al? How much money did the dreaded Scaife spend compared to what Soros has spent?

[Ethyl]

I expect this story to die this week. I think Kerry will be satisfied to have convinced some that President Bush was a deserter, to have raised the question in the minds of some others, and to have drawn attention away from his own base acts protesting the war in Viet Nam.

He'll think that the issue of his protests is moot, that he's taken the sting out of accusations directed at him by attacking the president.

But he's wrong. A lot of people will actually listen and learn that President Bush's guard service was valid...and remember Kerry's now-embarrassing protests. Especially those who have served...


Yea, Kerry just said that on Fox News, He is not concerned about Mr. Bush's service to the nation...........now

[537 Votes]

Fertig said the public has a right to know whether Bush received credit for duty he did not perform.

This is a very pertinent question, considering that there are no other supporting documents and no eyewitnesses to Bush having been present to perform the duty.

[Ethyl]

This won't be good enough for John F'n Kerry.....he's a war hero. Did you know that? He was in a country far far away with a rifle not knowing who was friend or foe. Bush didn't serve his country, he was only in the National Guard. (sarcasm)

It is a lot harder to drive a jet, than a boat! Take that John F'n Kerry, and finish a kill of a Viet Namese after he was being shot several times by a 50 cal machine gun. Get a silver star for that? Yea, what a brave boy you were john f'n kerry. How come you have voted against every weapons system since you came back?? Maybe you should have stayed there. Found another rich woman in viet nam....sold some soy sauce........

[mjaneangels@aolcom]

"But the following month, he won permission to move to Alabama for several months to work on the US Senate campaign of Winton Blount, a Republican."

He was given permission to be off work. He was on vacation. This is not a transfer, this is vacation.

[Judith Anne]

Ethyl, I heard that comment from Kerry on Fox News. They reported that he also said he doesn't want to hear anything about President Bush's service in the Guard from any of his aides. Kind of like the old "Don't....stop...." joke, if you ask me.

I'm so sick of the dem primaries on TV--it's been one big media event, to try to drum up interest in the liberal candidates, and it's as transparent as Janet Jackson's underwear, not to mention offensive.

Every single one of those poseurs "fighting" in the dem primaries would likely excrete bricks if half of what they've done against our country became general knowledge. If I were the president, I'd be sick of this idiocy, to the point where I'd wonder if the job was worth it; I'd be tempted, were I President Bush, to say "the heck with it, they can save their own sorry rear ends, I'm out of here."

Truthfully, ALL the dems want the war over and won before any of them might actually have to take office. That's the reason for the June 30 total withdrawal from Iraq--so they can find out if it's going to be safe to be president of the US, or if they might actually have to do some work. They can slide along on a revitalized economy, counting on the Republican congress (and a few accessory conservative Dems in the Senate) to make the tax cuts permanent, and then the frikken dems will take credit for President Bush's recovery.

It's my sincere hope that all of them--every single bleeping frikken Democrat and a few turncoat RINOs--roast in the Bad Place for all eternity, for the bleep of their primaries, if for nothing else, the bleeping bleeps.

Rant off. ;-D

[Judith Anne]

Sounds like a lot of conjecture. He hadn't yet stated his intent to leave the ANG, and the planes were flown for quite a while after he lost his flight status. The main question does go to intent for Bush: why did he purposely miss his flight physical? Why did he not try to reschedule? Why did he give the excuse that he was not close enough for his family physician to perform the physical?

267 posted on 02/10/2004 1:46:44 PM PST by antiRepublicrat

That's nobody's business but President Bush's. And what is this "the main question does go to intent" stuff? Nobody cares. It's not a trial, no matter how much the liberal candidates want it to be.

Kerry is justly afraid, in my opinion, that his own military record not receive as much attention as President Bush's, but few of us who know have forgotten that the medals he dramatically threw away were NOT his medals. He still has his three purple hearts. And I for one would like to know exactly what the injuries were, how he received them, who (names and service records, including pay stubs to verify) treated those injuries, and if he used paper cuts to get out of Viet Nam after 4 months to pursue a political career between starlets.

[WOSG]

Put down the crack pipe. The Globe loves Kerry, and helped him win in NH. They'd love for Kerry, the Democrat nominee, to beat Bush.

Globe has all the dirt on Kerry, and will *not* report on any of it.

[GOP-Pat]

Bush accumulated 56 points, more than the 50 that he needed by the end of May 1973 to maintain his standing as a Guardsman. (From the George Magazine article.)

[antiRepublicrat]

That's nobody's business but President Bush's. And what is this "the main question does go to intent" stuff?

The question is drug use since that is the year they instituted drug testing, coupled with rumors of drug use plus lack of denial of such. Not that I care one bit if he took drugs in the 70s, that would normally be none of my business. However, it would show him to be a hypocrite in supporting the WoD, and as a voter that is my business.

[Just mythoughts]

Unbelievable your priority is "DRUGS".

We are in a freaking "WAR", there are people all around this world seeking to destroy us and you are worried about "DRUGS".

[Destructor]

HA! Swweeeeet! Just when the Dimocrats think they have something to throw at Bush that will stick-- he takes it away from them.