To: fidelio
"That a major general in the Air Force would take interest in a brand new Air Force trainee made a big impression on me." Why that clinches it < /sarcasm>
Eventually it's going to dawn on people that if Dubya really wanted to use connections to escape service & danger he made lousy use of it going into the TANG for a six-year committment?
With all this clout why didn't he give a job for say six months as a journalist on a highly protected military base in Vietnam. Then he could claim to be a Vietnam vet if he was thinking about a political future?
Or why didn't he use his pull to get a job as a staff flunky in Washington or Europe or Japan? What kind of committment would that have been? Two years? I could be wrong.
The more I hear about Dubya the more I like the guy.
27 posted on
09/17/2004 2:39:07 PM PDT by
Tribune7
To: Tribune7
With all this clout why didn't he give a job for say six months as a journalist on a highly protected military base in Vietnam. Then he could claim to be a Vietnam vet if he was thinking about a political future? Or why didn't he use his pull to get a job as a staff flunky in Washington or Europe or Japan? What kind of committment would that have been? Two years? I could be wrong.Or how about go to Nam, make up three phony wounds, and get shipped back home as a "war hero"?
31 posted on
09/17/2004 2:41:14 PM PDT by
ambrose
(http://www.swiftvets.com)
To: Tribune7
I don't know if you have ever met any fighter pilots while they were still flying the planes, but the few that I've met at the time were "cowboys" to a man.
That GWB's demeanor is similar is not likely a coincidence.
If you want to win anything, why not pick a former fighter pilot as a leader?
71 posted on
09/17/2004 3:14:07 PM PDT by
Paladin2
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