Bush Bows to Rival's 'Heroic' Military Service (LA Slimes proves what lying whores they are)

The president continued to defend his own service, saying, "On the other hand, I served my country. Had my unit been called up, I would have gone."

Those remarks came as statements concerning Bush's National Guard service by former Texas House Speaker Ben Barnes were publicized.

Barnes said he was "more ashamed at myself than I've ever been" because he helped Bush and the sons of other wealthy families get into the Texas National Guard so they could avoid serving in Vietnam.

"I got a young man named George W. Bush into the National Guard … and I'm not necessarily proud of that, but I did it," Barnes, a Democrat, said May 27 in a video clip recorded before a group of Kerry supporters in Austin.

The Rats in their hurry to deceive really are getting confused.

In yesterday's AJC it said, " . . .Barnes says in the posted excerpt, which misstates the office he held at the time: He was actually House speaker"

House speaker??? At least they admit Barnes wasn't Lt. Gov. at the time, but they're still lying to cover the fact Barnes was in Geneva.

Thanks for the correction. But I'm confused. Was Barnes living in Geneva at the time?

I do not know. But Texas does not have a full-time legislature, so he could hold the title as Speaker of the House at the same time he was appointed to the UN position. The thing to emphasize here, IMHO, is not the UN spot, as we don't even know how much time it entailed, but the fact that he said he was Lt. Governor at the time of this request, but he was really the Speaker of the House. That's not a minor error, as they are different positions.

But here's something I found interesting while doing a google search on this. I don't know if this has been posted before:

The speaker, Ben Barnes, intervened on Bush's behalf sometime in late 1967 or early 1968 at the request of a good friend of Bush's father, then a Republican congressman from Houston, the sources said. The friend, Sidney A. Adger, was a prominent Houston business executive who died in 1996. The Guard official contacted at his behest, Brig. Gen. James M. Rose, died in 1993.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/campaigns/wh2000/stories/barnes092199.htm

How convenient that both people were dead by the time he spun this story. If Barnes had this involvement, why wouldn't have come out with this in 1994, when Ann Richards was in a losing battle with Bush? Because Adger was still alive, and could have refuted the story!

They're reduced to people who've been in the same state as Bush at some time in his life. We'll soon see articles by his first grade teacher...'I passed this sniveling coward onto second grade. He was a liar and a bully and wet his pants, blah, blah, blah.' Or someone who stopped behind him at a red light...'I nearly rear-ended the jerk. I had a chance to kill him then and blew it....' Kerry's beyond desperate to put out drivel like this. Things must be looking hopeless at RAT headquarters. His candidacy is dead. Maybe we'll see mass firings, new staff dragged to Nantucket to dig him up again. And while he's 'resting', his stooges will be running around sliming Bush and the Swifties and RAT mobs on drugs will act out in NY.

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