I've never heard that Bush had voluneered to go but was turned down. Any more info on this?
Does this NONSTORY ever go away? Sheesh. Let it go! Talk about obsessions.
Who cares?
I heard this, but never gave it much credence. It didn't matter to me either way.
Who cares if Bush volunteered or not. We've got bigger fish to fry. The other side is so juvenille and petty.
I really don't understand why this is so important to the left when it didn't matter when Clinton totally dodged military service altogether. We were told that one's service in Vietnam didn't matter.
So why does it matter now?
She didn't get the email flash that NSA wiretaps and Abramovich are the Bush Bash Bites.
Well that does it - I'm never going to vote for George W. Bush for President ever again!
Oh, so you're Diane Rehm's listener?!
I'd like to hear Mark Steyn on the Diane Rehm Show.
She's not dead yet.
Last time I heard her, she sounded like she had one foot in the grave.
Rehm is an old, arrogant, "superior" lefty. It is infuriating to listen to her show in which she softballs all the Bolsheviks (aka Democrats), and tears apart the patriots.
I had heard of Bush volunteering for Vietnam and being turned down because the type of airplane he flew was not used there, but I've never heard of dianne rehm, and apparently she doesn't do much research for her show.
From the responses here, I gather that it not an ~established~ fact. Will be interesting to see what Barnes comes up with.
As I recall reading, while in the TANG, Bush said he "looked into it" but wasn't qualified because of insufficient flight time. My interpretation is that he didn't actually volunteer but checked to see if he would qualify first.
After Bubba Klintoon and Jenjis John Skerry got a complete pass from the usual suspects on their Vietnam service actions, all these people can just shut up with their stories about what anybody else did. Not only did they not care about Bubba and Jean Francois, it is getting to be ancient history going on 40-50 years on.
Would speculate that the station is in liberal leftist Seattle or at least somewhere in King County, right?
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If so this is pretty lame. Sounds like the caller that Rush just had on claiming that "Georgy" new about the impending attack on the WTC more than a month before it happened. It was a flat statement of fact.
Could it be that a new seminar was just held?
And, yes, both George Bush's fellow pilots and the surviving commanders of the TANG unit have stated that Bush volunteered for the program testing the effectiveness in Vietnam of the type of plane he was flying (I believe it was for the "SANDY" ground support role), but that he didn't have enough flight hours and the program was canceled before he did get enough hours.
Dubya is just jealous because he never got to spend Christmas in Cambodia. :o)~