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Freepers know by now that it was Karl Rove who typed up the phony piece of paper to purposely obfuscate the problem of Bush being AWOL — while running against a vet for president?

Not sure what Laeta K and Vanderbilt wrote in Truth — I’m sure it’s slammed very left wing — but we were conned by Rove on that one.

It worked. After the Rathergate thing, no one cared about the truth of the matter... Bush’s military bona fides.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Freepers know by now that it was Karl Rove who typed up the phony piece of paper to purposely obfuscate the problem of Bush being AWOL — while running against a vet for president?

It worked. After the Rathergate thing, no one cared about the truth of the matter... Bush’s military bona fides.

Look, it is all very well to say that Bush went into the National Guard, and that he didn’t serve in Vietnam. But,

1. being a pilot - even in the NG - is not just strapping on a plane and taking a ride. It takes about a year of full time duty training to even qualify to fly for the NG.

2. it makes all the difference in the world when you are inducted into a military unit. Bush was a year later than Kerry, and it took another year for him to be even qualified to fly in Vietnam. By that time, Vietnam began to wind down. The TANG only had so much money to conduct flight operations, and therefore could only fly so many missions. So instead of having a scarcity of pilots, the TANG suddenly faced a glut of Vietnam Vets wanting flying billets. On top of that, Bush’s credentials were for a plane which began to be phased out of the Guard. At that point, through no fault of his own, Bush’s membership in the Guard ceased to be an asset to the Guard, and became a liability.

Kerry, meanwhile, was racking up three purple hearts in record time in order to get out of Dodge. He wasn’t re-upping to get back, he wanted out and he got out. I’m not boasting of a superior military record myself, but Kerry may have been activated from the National Guard himself, for all we know - he never released his records any more than Obama has released his college records.

As far as Rove typing those “TANG memos” - Dan Rather would have blown that story up long since, if that were the case. Their provenance was all on Dan Rather - he bought them hook, line, and sinker. Or at least, tried to con us to buy them. Not forgetting that the Democrats coordinated an attack on Bush’s military record with Dan Rather’s 60 Minutes con job.