Posted on 09/07/2004 10:03:40 PM PDT by ambrose
Bush's lone service in October was outside Texas, presumably with an Alabama unit he had permission to train with in September, October and November 1972.
From another AP article by the same author:
Bush's lone service in October came at another air base an Alabama, where he sought temporary permission to train away from his assigned squadron.
AP: Lawsuit Gets Bush Guard Papers Out
Who made that change?????
Heck, Clinton's files showed up in the trunk of a car in a junk yard...anything can happen
AP = Almost Proofread; Almost Pre-meditated.
This is getting ridiculous. They didn't have computers back then. People signed in on scraps of paper which could have gotten misplaced. Everything was on paper without computers. The President got an honorable discharge. End of story. He didn't betray his fellow soldiers either.
Bush fulfilled his military obligation by wiping out the Ba-athist regime in Iraq and capturing and killing two-thirds of the al-Qaeda leadership.
Maybe the same person who claimed the crowd booed when Bush wished Clinton well.
Significantly?
These guys are grasping at such straws.
Over 300 hours, not including training. In other words, he spent more time learning to fly and flying than Kerry did in "service" in Nam!
you just have to laugh at these pathetic Kerrytistas, desperately digging the dirt with such abandon it's clear the jig is up and they all know Kerry is a pathetic candidate. They should get a refund but the DNC would simply claim they could have known all along if they'd given Kerry the slightest bit of scrutiny, but they didn't, so it's really the fact they're such foolish suckers to have bought Hanoi John's hook, line & sinker, it's really themselves they should be mad at but they have no conscience so they'll just continue to lash out in hatred, vengeance filled anger.
The thing that really irritates me about this is that no one seems to understand the key ingredient of this issue: the National Guard is NOT the Active Army. I've served in both. In the Guard, if you have a personal obligation or job commitment, as long as you talk to your chain of command, they'll just as likely let you go "take care of it." No paperwork will be done, no records will be kept, but everyone still knows what's happening and where you are. It's not a bad thing! It's about National Guard and Reserve commanders understanding that the Guard/Reserve is not the sole focus of the soldier's life like it is on active duty.
I'm sure that something like that is what happened with President Bush. He told his chain that he wanted to go to Alabama with his civilian job, and they said, "No problem, but we can't pay you unless you find an Alabama unit to drill with..." I've seen stuff like this happen dozens of times. The soldier isn't AWOL, he simply has a *very* informal leave granted by his commander.
Are you accusing the AP of "gasp" BIAS? < /sarcasm>
While I agree with your sentiment, your math is way off. If Kerry spent 4 months in Vietnam (I'm guessing around 120 days), that's 2,880 hours for Kerry in Vietnam.
I worked with a guy for 2 years who never did any monthly drills for two years. He did his two weeks once per year and when I asked him why he didn't have to drill he said he had enough points not to?
Yep. The Guard works retirement based on a point system. You get x number of points for completing 12 drills and a two week annual training. For most Guardsmen, you'll have to spend twenty years in to acquire the needed number of points. In my case, five years on active duty gave me enough "points" to retire in the Guard, but I still needed twenty calendar years. I'm not sure how your friend did it, but stuff like that sounds vaguely familiar.
So true. He also didn't cause the unfortunate POW's in Nam to suffer torture, either, because of malicious, patently false statements made before Congress for personal political gain.
Bush is running on a four-year record as commander-in-chief, not on his guard service. Kerry WAS running on his four months in Nam 35 years ago, but now had flip-flopped back to attacking Bush's economic record. Now the AP is carrying Kerry's water, going back into his guard service. WHEN is the AP going to investigate ANY of Kerry's records, or demand that he release what he still sits upon? Can you say RATHER BIASED? Oops, that would be CBS.
Has the AP filed a similar suit to uncover Kerry's military records?
This issue will be a nonstarter among the vast voting public. Oh, sure -- Chris Matthews and the other sharks on the talking head shows will discuss this until we're sick of hearing it. But Bush has never made his NG service a central focus of his campaign, unlike Kerry and his "two tours" of Vietnam. People have pretty much made up their minds that in regard to Bush's NG record, it's irrelevant.
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