Bush’s War Stories Simply Don’t Fly

NY Observer ^ | January 31, 2004 | Joe Conason

[ChadGore]

[litehaus]

Conason..........Con man .......

[mware]

Joe Conason, enough said.

[UB355]

Girly Man Joe Conason

[Piquaboy]

Joe tells more lies than Bill Clinton and that is really hard to do. Juet yesterday Clinton said that the reason we did not find any WMD's in Iraq is because he destroyed them with his bombing in 98.

[stylin_geek]

Of course, the "brilliant" Al Gore and his academic record are never commented on.

[OpusatFR]

"What the Jennings episode validates is not Mr. Bush’s strange military career, but the Bush method of press management. Treat journalists like vassals, with nicknames, cheek-pinching and—whenever they forget their place momentarily—sneering disdain. It works brilliantly."

Geez. Poor Conason. Completely bonkers at this point. I've heard that the screed masters in the media are just livid because President Bush treats them, well, like the scribblers they are and not Olympian gods.

The calumny about his military career has been hashed, rehashed and hash rehashed to death. This seems to be Kool-aid Joey's harump to self-soothe. I would suggest self-gratification instead. At least we wouldn't be subjected to his rants in print.

[joesnuffy]

George W. Bush graduated from Yale in June 1968. After his father’s influential friends contacted Texas Air National Guard officials, they
awarded young George a safe berth in Houston’s famed "champagne unit," where sons of the Texas elite avoided Vietnam.

[RogueIsland]

Kind of amazing how all of a sudden the very people who most loathe the military and everythig it represents are now so concerned about who served when and for how long and where and who is the most decorated vet and who is a bigger American Military War Hero With Cluster than George W.

[Mr. Buzzcut]

Where were these people in '92 and '96 when the draft dodger/aider and comforter to the enemy was running?

I'm not overwhelmed by Bush's military record, but it beats the previous "President"'s and GWB's 4 years as Commander in Chief cannot be disregarded.

[WorkingClassFilth]

Is there a credible, impartial, source for the entire story on the President's service record? We have all read these stories many times but, to date, I haven't seen anything satisfactory that clears up a troublesome record. Dismissing Conason because he's a common RAT and inveterate liar isn't enough and this will be a crucial point if ketchup boy gets tapped to run. I fully expect that pompous F'ing ass to show up someplace wearing tiger-stripe fatigues and a boonie hat. If Bush stays on the high-ground and won't engage him on the military service record, it simply looks worse.

[Pukin Dog]

According to Amazon.com, the quote "I continued flying with my unit for the next several years" appears ONLY in Conason's book, but does NOT appear in the book he claims to quote.

This is just another attempt by the Left to try to goad Bush into responding to these charges. Only if Bush were to comment, would the issue gain momentum. It will die on the vine, just like it did four years ago.

[steve50]

Are the charges true, or false? I have no information on this matter. Why go after the messenger when you should be refuting him?

If they were false they would be disputed. All I've seen are attacks on Joe, Bill, and Al so far.

[jpsb]

Old news, we all know that the elites do not send their sons to fight and die in our wars. That job is left to the peasants.

[lonestar]

George W. Bush graduated from Yale in June 1968. After his father’s influential friends contacted Texas Air National Guard officials, they awarded young George a safe berth in Houston’s famed "champagne unit," where sons of the Texas elite avoided Vietnam.

George H. W. Bush was a newly elected Republican congressman from Houston--a city in a state that was run entirely by Democrats. GHWB had no "influential friends."

The liberals always slant these stories to sound like GHWB was POTUS.

GWB did not protest the VN war a la Clinton and Kerry.

[WorkingClassFilth]

Do you have links or a direct copy of the NYT story cited in your post? A NYT story, far from bias and factual distortion, would still be the right tool to use in castrating any argument or assertions from the Left.

[BluH2o]

His very special treatment included instant admission to flight training and an extraordinary commission as a second lieutenant.

What's unusual about that ... he was a college graduate (Yale), he passed the required physical and qualified for flight training. His father in WWII (for a period of time) was the youngest aviator in the Navy ... a ensign (2nd Lt.) at age 19.