[ChadGore]

[litehaus]

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

[mware]

Joe Conason, enough said.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[Cicero]

Bush avoided active duty, but he did so honorably, unlike some we could name. Moreover, as a member of the National Guard he did take at least some risk of being called into active service, since once you get involved in the military nobody can predict for certain what will happen next. (Only in hindsight can you be sure of staying safely out of it.)

Bush seems to have been a manly young man and a capable pilot.

[doug from upland]

Conason called a Clinton buttboy by FReeper on Gloria Allred show -- CLICK.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

None of this changes the fact that President Bush is 100 times the man that you will ever be Joe.

[nutmeg]

read later

[hflynn]

George W. Bush lied about his military service record. The lie can be found in his own 1999 campaign autobiography (as written by Karen Hughes), where he dramatically describes his experience as a pilot in the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam War.

On page 34 of A Charge to Keep, Mr. Bush claims that, after learning to fly the F-102 fighter jet, he was turned down for Vietnam duty because "had not logged enough flight hours" to qualify for a combat assignment. Before going on to recall the "challenging moments" that involved close formation drills at night during poor weather, he adds: "I continued flying with my unit for the next several years."

In light of what journalists and other researchers have learned since the publication of Mr. Bush’s book, his account is unmistakably fraudulent.

I'm kind of puzzled. Joe Conason publishs a piece on 01-31-2004 stating W lied about his military service record in a book oublished in November 1999. According to Joe one need only to have read to Page 34 in November 1999 to discover W's lie. Interesting that the VLWC was unable to utilize this information to prevent W from being elected. Nice try Joe but it just doesn't compute that you are making an issue of this in 2004 instead of in 2000.

[bray]

If it's written by PravdABDNC it must be false. We can rest assured they will investigate Kerry's hero status with equal gusto.....RIIIIIIIIIIGHT! These liberals will be outraged by his role in killing of innocent children.

Pray for W and The Truth

[VRWC_minion]

"they" just don't get it, do they ?

[finnman69]

Joe Conason


Forgot to read the NY Times debunking this.

[kabar]

George W. Bush--Honorable Discharge. Case closed.