[Hon]

"However, Turnipseed said Bush was not under an obligation to report and could miss drills with the 187th as long as he made up enough points in the year to fulfill his obligation.

"You know, probably, rules were a little looser back then than they are now. If you go in the Guard now, you are going to end up in Iraq," Turnipseed said.

Turnipseed said he is a Bush supporter.

"I'm fed up," he said. "People want me to give them something to bash Bush."

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That is exactly what he told me.

[ambrose]

Interesting how they bury the eyewitness account.

[GeronL]

Thank Mr... General Turnipseed for his service to our country, then and now!

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

"You know, probably, rules were a little looser back then than they are now. If you go in the Guard now, you are going to end up in Iraq," Turnipseed said.

. . . because the military was downsized so dramatically in the previous maladminstration.

As the regulars units spun off people who had taken on military obligations, the National Guard obviously should have expanded . But I guess it actually didn't? That would have cost money, and treated military people better in the process.

Does it strike anyone else that Bush would have made a more memorable imprint on National Guardsmen if he had gone around bragging about GHW Bush's connections??

It strikes me that Bush wasn't trying to make a splash there.
Then again, Republican politicians in the South back then had even more to be humble about than Democrats in the South do now! Democrats now at least have memories of getting elected . . .

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Outstanding work!!!