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'W. DID HIS GUARD DUTY'
New York Post ^ | 2/14/04 | DEBORAH ORIN

Posted on 02/14/2004 1:30:43 AM PST by kattracks

Edited on 05/26/2004 5:19:32 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

February 14, 2004 -- A retired lieutenant colonel in the Alabama Air National Guard yesterday said he clearly remembers President Bush showing up for duty in 1972, adding that he was a "very dedicated Guardsman." Retired Lt. Col. John "Bill" Calhoun, 69, is the first Alabama Guardsman to speak out and confirm Bush's statements that he honorably fulfilled his service requirements - rebutting Democratic claims that Bush was "AWOL."


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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: awol; bush; deserter; johncalhoun; militaryrecord; nationalguard
And as of today, the WH released all of President Bush's National Guard records.
1 posted on 02/14/2004 1:30:44 AM PST by kattracks
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To: kattracks
***The Hard & Fast Facts The Democrats & Media STILL Don't Understand***

1. Americans are glad Saddam is gone and his rotten kids are dead.

We're glad GWB had the balls Clinton didn't have, and we're glad that GWB gave us the reason, or even just the cover, to go kick his ass out of power...3000 Americans were killed by these bastards and Saddam was happy about it and WOULD have helped if he didn't.

This bastard was paying suicide bombers...Americans don't give a damn whether we ever find those WMD, we wanted his head and we got it.

That's why Libya came across and the others will too....they know that GWB means what he says and if they don't we're coming after them, next. You betcha.

The UN and the rest of the world knows GWB and America means what it says, this ain't the clinton's any more....

2. Kerry will never be elected President.

Americans have a deep sense of fairness, and even those of us who didn't go to Viet Nam, knew that our friends that did, didn't want to go, and those of us MEN, who were subjected to the draft, (and you women can just stay out of this...it's like having a baby....that's yours, the draft is ours) felt deep inside for the friends we lost, and that POS Kerry joining Hanoi Jane, (a woman not subjected to the draft, and a traitor) was a betrayal, and we are never going to forgive him for his testmony against the soldiers who were fighting....we protesetd the war, not those who were FORCED, OFTEN against their will, to go fight it.......

So you liberals in the press and the PC democrats can whistle any tune or tell any lie you want.....We're with GWB and that's the way it is.

2 posted on 02/14/2004 1:33:05 AM PST by The Wizard (democrats: enemies of America)
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To: kattracks
...."his commanding officer rated him a "top-notch fighter interceptor pilot" and "natural leader" with "sound judgment" and "mature beyond his years and experience level."

The officer, Lt. Col. Jerry Killian, wrote: "Bush possesses vast potential and should be promoted well ahead of his contemporaries."

Yet ABC in NY (friday morning) interviwed some rat or other on the paper Bush produced to support his story and the mealy-mouthed rat replied, with greasy innocence: "The only thing now is if there is any fruad involved in them. But to me they look pretty good."

The Revolution can only be DAYS away at this point.

3 posted on 02/14/2004 1:58:24 AM PST by TalBlack ("Tal, no song means anything without someone else....")
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To: Wlover
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5 posted on 02/14/2004 2:13:53 AM PST by Fabozz
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To: TalBlack
The Revolution can only be DAYS away at this point.

Well, TB, its actually months, away. When we all get our neighbors, friends, and family to re-elect W in a landslide. Splitting the Senate to 55-45 wouldn't be a bad trick either.

6 posted on 02/14/2004 2:36:15 AM PST by XHogPilot (There are many practical uses of nuclear power)
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To: TalBlack
The officer, Lt. Col. Jerry Killian, wrote: "Bush possesses vast potential and should be promoted well ahead of his contemporaries."

Very perceptive, Colonel. Although not "promoted" to the position, I think the President performs quite well as Commander In Chief of the U.S. Military.

7 posted on 02/14/2004 2:45:27 AM PST by Quilla
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To: TalBlack
What I love is that these glowing records had to be essentially dragged out of President Bush and the WH. He's been laying in the weeds, letting people "misunderestimate" him, again! LOL!
8 posted on 02/14/2004 5:21:40 AM PST by alwaysconservative (Democrats recycle: bad ideas, bad cliches, bad people.)
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To: XHogPilot
"Splitting the Senate to 55-45 wouldn't be a bad trick either."

Let's make that 60-40 so we can get some decent judges that have actually read the Constitution.

9 posted on 02/14/2004 5:35:59 AM PST by Jaxter ("Vivit Post Funera Virtus")
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To: alwaysconservative
Now we need to start pressuring Kerry to release all of his records. I'd love to see his medical records and the extent of the 'wounds' that let him desert his 'band of brothers' 8 months early. I'm also interested in who wrote him up for that Silver Star he's always bragging about and what the citation that would accompany it.
10 posted on 02/14/2004 5:40:59 AM PST by Jaxter ("Vivit Post Funera Virtus")
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To: The Wizard
You betcha'! ;9)
11 posted on 02/14/2004 5:52:45 AM PST by Ditter
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To: The Wizard
HI wizard,
Best guesses are that the poisionous gass truck headed to Syria where they succesfully buried the stuff in the sand. We know sadaam had wmd's, we gave the to him! Later on he used them on his own guys. The UN, feeble as they were and are, couldn't find the stuff for eons. We need a little time to buy off some slime ball towelheads and we will find were the wmd's or their "components" are stashed.
12 posted on 02/14/2004 6:02:30 AM PST by keysguy
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To: keysguy
I agree, they will be found, and the slimeocrats will pay
13 posted on 02/14/2004 6:10:40 AM PST by The Wizard (Slimeocrats are enemies of America)
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To: Ditter
You betcha.....
14 posted on 02/14/2004 6:11:03 AM PST by The Wizard (Slimeocrats are enemies of America)
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