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Media Bias: Veteran reporter, author and commentator Bernard Goldberg reports that when CBS News did its fake National Guard story on George W. Bush avoiding service in Vietnam, it knew it was a lie.It's a liberal urban legend that Bush used the influence of his father and his father's friends to land a cushy position in the Texas National Guard to avoid service in Vietnam. The Democrats would run John Kerry as a hero in the war, and CBS News was all too eager to help with Mary Mapes producing a "60 Minutes II" segment in September 2004 charging exactly...

The present US president George Bush was trained to intercept Soviet bomber carrier TU-95 Bear aircraft while he was in the Texas Air National Guard. The US archives and retired colonel William Kampenii, Mr. President’s fellow soldier since 1970 till 1971 have proved this fact. ‘Pilots from Air National Guard used to intercept TU-95 regularly. The Bears used to make patrol flights, the aircrafts were usually intercepted along the eastern US coast, sometimes just near Cuba,’ says colonel Kampenii. George Bush J. reminisces in his autobiography A Charge To Keep how they were taught to direct to the target with...

From: XXXXXXX To: OReilly@foxnews.com ; Hannity@foxnews.com Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 2:45 PM Subject: The pilot who taught G W Bush how to fly Received this link from a friend, please read this story:  http://www.hillnews.com/york/090904.aspx I have a high school classmate (Missouri, 1949) who taught Bush how to fly and the following is his e-mail to me last year.  He has been ill and was unable to attend the funeral of another classmate this year.  My prayers are with him and I am sure he would be sending this and more information if he was able. THUS, YOU HAVE TO...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Months after insisting it could find no more records of President Bush's Air National Guard service, the Defense Department has released more than two dozen pages of files, including Bush's report card for flight training and dates of his flights. --snip-- The newly released records show Bush, a lieutenant in the Texas Air National Guard, ranked No. 22 in a class of 53 pilots when he finished his flight training at Moody Air Force Base in Georgia in 1969. --snip-- The records also show Bush made a grade of 88 on total airmanship and a perfect...

Are there any AEs or pilots who could tell me - conjecture is fine - why we developed the F-102? It seems like this low thrust jet was probably one of the worst designed fighters I've ever seen or read about (the thrust to weight ratio is absurd). I would have thought that with the F-4 - proof that a Coke machine could fly if you put a big enough engine on it - coming up to speed around the same period that the 100 series would be a non-starter. I singled out the 102 because of the specs I...