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  • Texas official regrets allowing Bush to enlist in National Guard

    08/27/2004 5:23:25 PM PDT · by ambrose · 127 replies · 3,499+ views
    Knight Ridder ^ | 8/27/04
    Posted on Fri, Aug. 27, 2004 Texas official regrets allowing Bush to enlist in National Guard BY PETE SLOVER Knight Ridder Newspapers AUSTIN, Texas - (KRT) - On a videotape posted on a pro-Kerry Web site, former Texas Lt. Gov. and House Speaker Ben Barnes for the first time publicly took credit and apologized for helping President Bush secure a Vietnam-era slot in the Texas Air National Guard. "I got a young man named George W. Bush into the National Guard ... and I'm not necessarily proud of that," Barnes, an Austin lobbyist and John Kerry supporter with a lucrative...