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"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.

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"?

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?