Posted on 09/07/2004 4:46:21 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Pray for W and Our Troops
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He was in the top 50% of those pilots that FINISHED flight training. How many didn't even finish? Secondly, even getting into the fighter pilot program is an acheivement. So probably as far as applicants to the pilot program, I would imagine that being #22 would rank in the top 10% of program applicants.
The AP is doing their best to spin this story to show that Bush was a mediocre soldier. Well, mediocre soldiers are almost never given the keys to a 10 million dollar fighter jet. As a general rule, only exceptional soldiers are ever given that opportunity.
That will come soon enough. Once they get tired beating the dead horse of Bush's ANG service.
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That's as much time in the air as Kerry spent on patrol in Nam.
So are all going to email AP and ask them for the REST of the story...you know, the OTHER candidate's records? Is this absolute bias or what?
But that's OK. The Bush National Guard story is the deadest horse ever; the story has been out so long nobody cares.
Continuing to push this does two things: reminds people the Swiftees also question Kerry's service; and insults all who have served in the Guard and Reserve. These morons are so blinded by their hatred of Bush they don't realize they are helping Bush.
Oh, they change the subject, but it's the same old BS, and they beat it to death. (Something about a lie told often enough...)
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Someone please explain what is so breathtaking about this? It sounds like the same old stuff to me. What am I missing?
We need to start the pool -
Which Rat will be the first to say, "These records raise more questions than they answer!"? I'll take McAwful.
It's amazing what comes out when the clintoon's minions become involved with a campaign. Don't think for one moment that their paw prints are on this!
Can the freedom of information act be used to get Kerry`s records?
What relation to Kitty Kelley, exactly?
Considering that he's with AP, the two Kelleys probably use rent boys from the same escort service. Kerry probably moonlighted there.
You gotta love that 22/53 is "middle". Proof that bush is a republican. What would they call a Democrat who came 22nd in a field of 53?
But Matt Kelley has not now, and will not ever, ask for Kerry's records. Even though, well, let's compare the two controversies.
Because the press is desperately interested in this, Bush has authorised the release of all his records.
Note also that this dozen days needs to be multiplied by the importance having been a fighter pilot thirty years ago has in Bush's campaign: zero.
For reasons known only to Kerry, but strongly suggesting that he has something to hide, he has stonewalled on the release of his records. Matt Kelley and his other "fluffers" at the AP have cooperated in the stonewalling.
Note also that this stint in Vietnam, and this apparently stolen valor, is not only the centerpiece but the whole alpha and omega of Kerry's campaign.
Folks, Kelley and company have pulled out all the stops, and we know how powerful the once-mainstream media is these days. After all, they smeared Arnold Schwarzenegger in a similar manner, and handed the election to Cruz Bustamante... er....
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
PS. At this time US involvement in Vietnam was ending... the ground forces were OUT... the military was being transformed into a much smaller, volunteer force. And the Air Guard had way more pilots than it could use, so it was RIFfing them.
Yes, but Bush was a mediocre exceptional soldier.
When will the AP ask Kerry if they can view his home movies from Vietnam ?
The one Kerry shot of soldiers burning down a village ( Lt Zippo strikes again ) and of Kerry sunbathing in civilain shorts next to a bound and blindfolded prisoner ?
A is for Abu G is for Ghraib.
( Charles Sennott," The Making of a Candidate," Boston Globe, Oct 6, 1996 )
Until they bludgeon it to nothing.
Nothing..We got flying time,ranking and grades..We had the rest.
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