[Dog Gone]

Long before Bush ran for President he told a friend, "When I was alone in the cockpit on the runway at Ellington Field in that F-102 and lit up the afterburner, I didn't feel like I "got out" of anything."

Bush's National Guard service was honorable and dangerous. He didn't try to get out of it by exaggerating injuries.

[Edgewood Pilot]

Good point. See #54.

[Christian4Bush]

Long before Bush ran for President he told a friend, "When I was alone in the cockpit on the runway at Ellington Field in that F-102 and lit up the afterburner, I didn't feel like I "got out" of anything."

Wow! I never heard that before. Maybe the LameScream media forgot? /heavy dose of sarcasm

Of course, President Bush doesn't trumpet his Guard Service like Flurch Munster does with Vietnam (or the Breck Girl does with his "father's work at the meel"). W doesn't have to...anyone with eyes to see, who cares to admit it, knows that he has done an outstanding job as the leader of this nation.

("Flurch Munster" = Flipper (for his flipflopping), Lurch (from the Addams Family) and Munster (Herman Munster, though calling Kerry that is an insult to Fred Gwynne, whom I miss tremendously..."did..did you say 'utes'?")