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Cleland is a triple amputee because he picked up a live grenade that fell near his buddies and she spits on him?

Ann should attack his politics, not his service.
She is w-a-y over the line on this one.

Sorry, FR's search engine never works for me when looking for a previous post.
Great graphic though, lol.

Also see:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1075456/posts

Apparently, you did not read either one. The article posted here states that Bush was "credited for Air National Guard drills".
The link I posted shows the actual documents, at best/ Bush got points from the ARF(not TANG) the last 2 years after being disciplined for not taking a physical.

The question is whether Bush received credit for duty he did not perform, and it remains unanswered.

Why don't you refute the charges instead?
...if you can't atack the message, atack the messenger?

On May 15, 1972, without leave to do so, Bush “cleared the base” to work on a Senate campaign in Montgomery, Alabama. On May 24, nine days after "clearing out," Bush retroactively requested permission for his absence without leave. Although the Alabama commanding officer approved Bush's request, national headquarters turned him down on May 31, 1972, saying Bush had an obligation to remain until May 1974, and since Bush had been trained to fly, he was “ineligible for assignment” to a non-flying unit in Alabama.

Bush ignored the refusal of the National Guard to let him transfer. And Bush absented himself without leave. “He cleared his base on May 15, 1972” and “has not been observed at this unit during the period of report" from May 1972 to May 1973. One of the authors of the report showing his absence for the year, Lieutenant Colonel Jerry Killian, was a good friend of George W. Bush and would surely have remembered if Bush had returned to base. The Texas National Guard was apparently under the (false) impression that Bush was serving in Alabama. Further documentary proof of Bush's absence from Texas without leave is contained in Bush's blank annual evaluation report for entire period from May 1972 to May 1973 and his Chronological Listing of Service.

Not only was Bush absent from Texas during this year, there is no record of Bush showing up in Alabama either. When this controversy broke in 2000, Bush referred reporters to Albert Lloyd Jr., a retired colonel who was the Texas Air Guard personnel director at the time. According to Lloyd, if Bush performed duty in Alabama, “his drill attendance should have been certified and sent to [Texas] and there would have been a record. We cannot find the records to show he fulfilled the requirements in Alabama.”

Meanwhile, on his birthday July 6, 1972, Bush was required to take an annual military physical. In April 1972, the National Guard first implemented random drug testing, and this would have been the first physical of Bush’s service where he might undergo such testing. But Bush did not “accomplish” his annual medical examination. This means Bush either flunked the physical or refused to submit to one. If Bush flunked the physical for drug use, that would be in the health records Bush refuses to disclose to this day. Recall Bush will not say whether he used cocaine prior to 1974.

Failing to have a drug-free physical required the military to convene a Flight Inquiry Board to give George W. Bush discipline. Although Bush still refuses to disclose his disciplinary records, the final result was clear: Bush was suspended, grounded from flying, and placed on probation in the Army Reserve Force.

On September 5, 1972, after being suspended from the Texas National Guard and grounded from flying, Bush again requested transfer to the Alabama National Guard. This time, having been grounded from flying and useless to his commanders in Texas because Bush could not "satisfy flight requirements" on the ground, his request was granted, and Bush was ordered to report on four specific days in October and November (having already missed September) to General Turnipseed of the Alabama National Guard. Bush never showed up and violated this direct order. Bush spokesman Dan Bartless conceded to The New York Times that "Bush did not serve on those dates because he was involved in the Senate campaign" and argued Bush made up the time later. (But Bush could not have made the time later as a pilot because he had already been grounded and suspended for refusing to have a medical examination that included a drug test.

http://www.radioinsidescoop.com/wst_page12.html

Mark Levine interviews First Lieutenant Robert A. Rogers, the former fighter pilot in the Air National Guard who analyzed these records in a 2000 report:
http://www.radioinsidescoop.com/wst_page12.html

More like kerplunk:
http://www.calpundit.com/archives/003220.html

ARF is the reserves, and among other things it's where members of the guard are sent for disciplinary reasons. As we all know, Bush failed to show up for his annual physical in July 1972, he was suspended in August, and the suspension was recorded on September 29. He was apparently transferred to ARF at that time and began accumulating ARF points in October.
ARF is a "paper unit" based in Denver that requires no drills and no attendance. For active guard members it is disciplinary because ARF members can theoretically be called up for active duty in the regular military, although this obviously never happened to George Bush.
To make a long story short, Bush apparently blew off drills beginning in May 1972, failed to show up for his physical, and was then grounded and transferred to ARF as a disciplinary measure. He didn't return to his original Texas Guard unit and cram in 36 days of active duty in 1973 — as Time magazine and others continue to assert based on a mistaken interpretation of Bush's 1973-74 ARF record — but rather accumulated only ARF points during that period. In fact, it's unclear even what the points on the ARF record are for, but what is clear is that Bush's official records from Texas show no actual duty after May 1972, as his Form 712 Master Personnel Record from the Texas Air National Guard clearly indicates.

"Since taking office in 2001, Bush has allowed domestic discretionary outlays to soar by an annual average of 8.2 percent. That compared with 2.5 percent a year under Clinton, 4.0 percent of Bush the Elder, 2.0 percent of Carter, and 6.8 percent under Nixon. By any measure, Bush the Younger is the biggest-spending president in memory."
- Jeff Jacoby

My usual viewing: (unless a good movie is on)

5p.m. Brit Hume, full hour.
6p.m. Hardball, until he starts gushing over some Dem.
7p.m. O'Reilly, until his ego gets in the way.
8p.m. Dennis Miller, until the quasi-intellectual rants get tiresome.
9p.m. Joe Scarborough, until his squinty eyes get on my nerves.

Sure, but will that fit on a bumper sticker?
:)

actually, he'll only be behind bars for 30.

I was always leery of using WMD as the sole premise for going to war.
I knew that we had bombed the heck out of them for 10 years, and that most chem and bio weapons have a 'shelf-life' of only a few years, there wasn't going to be "tons and tons" of these weapons as Cheney kept saying.
They should have at least 2 points, one being humanitarian, many on the left would have gone along, and could not then accuse Bush of lying.

the pixels around the inserted image don't match up with the surrounding pixels.

Everybody knows the anti-gravity engine on ufos causes pixel distortion.

The only thing that will save Bush now is the capture of Osama.
The Dems will turn-out and vote for anyone of the dwarves, such is their hatred of Bush.

4 years? that's kinda harsh.
2 years parole is what I'd give him. :)

Good thing we voted for a pro-life President. </sarcasm>