Posted on 09/27/2004 5:10:25 AM PDT by KMC1
NEW YORK - According to a retired National Guard Colonel, George W. Bush requested action in Vietnam. Retired Colonel Ed Morrisey also is saying that Bush's "points" in the Guard averaged better than 120 more per year than the required 50.
Colonel Morrisey served in the Air National Guard and is familiar with President Bush's record from the very beginning of his service time. Colonel Morrisey is also saying today that Bush was the opposite of a soldier shirking his duty.
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This will never see the light of day.
Thanks! I'm bookmarking this . . .
Will never be reported, but thank for posting it.
hey, if its here on FR, its has already seen the light of day!
And, that Bush didn't go to Vietnam, as many here have pointed out, was a function of the cutbacks that were going on starting in '71 (I think). That he could get any flight time in 1972 or 1973 (his lowest point totals) was, as I understand it, pretty "normal", given his rank, his tenure, and the cutbacks.
"Bush was the opposite of a soldier shirking his duty."
Soldiers who love their country don't shirk their duty. Nor do they betray their fellow soldiers or country!
Article from February: http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD%2FMGArticle%2FRTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031773659263&path=!news&s=1045855934842
I agree. It won't see the light of day because I read about Bush volunteering for Nam about 2-3 weeks ago and have yet seen the MSM report it.
Since the CBS Evening News is not biased, when will they update viewers with this new information?
More interesting articles further down the page...
CENTCOM #2 KNOWS WHEREABOUTS OF WMDs:
Retired Lt. Gen. Michael DeLong (USMC) had formally been the number two man in command of the Iraq War. DeLong reported to Brig. Gen. Tommy Franks.
According to DeLong - U.S. Military Intelligence had been able to determine that WMDs were smuggled out of the country as U.S. military forces were preparing to liberate Iraq. DeLong made the remarks to New York talk radio listeners:
"I do know for a fact that some of those weapons went into Syria, Lebanon, and Iran."
"Two days before the war, on March 17th, we saw through multiple intelligence channels - both human intelligence and techinical (satellite,eavesdrop) intelligence - large caravans of people and things, including some of the top 55 Iraqis, going to Syria."
We also know that before then, they buried some of the weapons of mass destruction. There are also some in Lebanon and probably a small amount in Iran."
"To smuggle the weapons would not require large vehicles."
"In order to transport their biological weapons, they would take their entire experimental weapons system in one or two suitcases - pretty easy to hide."
"Saddam's deputies could have fit the chemical weapon's cache into one or two vans, which they could then bury or drive across on of the borders."
"Human intelligence also indicated that Saddam's deputies also took billions of dollars with them when they went into Syria."
"It's no surprise that the weapons buried in Iraq have yet to be uncovered. Seven eighths of the country is arid desert and the size of California. You could probably bury 100 Empire State buildings and not find them."
You are right about the RIF in '71. I got in country early October, '70. In August '71 I was told that, unless I was planning on staying in the Army, I would have to leave RVN immediately so that I could be mustered out ASAP. If you weren't planning to re-up, they wanted you out so that they could re-structure based on who would be staying in.
Volunteering will never be good enough. One had to secretly meet with the enemy in Paris to really be admired by ones countrymen.(OK, so maybe I do need the sarcasm thingies)
For those saying that George W. Bush got in the Texas Air National Guard because he was the son of George HW Bush, ask them this question.
How did those who were not sons of George HW Bush get in the Texas Air National Guard?
Good question!
However, if Carville announces that he remembers that when he was a child he saw George W. Bush in a McDonald's bragging to a friend about how he beat the drug test by missing his physical and he had pulled strings to have his record "sugar-coated"-- well, that will be a breaking news story.
So, when has Katie scheduled him for an interview?
Agreed. The MSM is going to take this debate prep period where both candidates are off the campaign trail and hype Kerry as much as possible. They do it much better than he does. They already started this morning. Good Morning America had clips from his days in Vietnam. The conquering hero. It was sickening.
What fools. Building Kerry up creates expecations he will never live up to.
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