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« Reply #30 on: August 08, 2003, 09:23:32 PM »
Funniest thread of the month, even beats the "Troll" one!

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« Reply #31 on: August 08, 2003, 09:24:12 PM »
Life in plastic, it's fantastic

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« Reply #32 on: August 08, 2003, 11:20:23 PM »
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The fact that I even know what song this comes from troubles me.
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« Reply #33 on: August 09, 2003, 12:19:01 AM »
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The one I want to see is the one of Bush junior in his Air National Guard pilot flight gear.  Now that would be a rare collectors item. But sadly I don't think a photo exists.:D


Wrong. Again.

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« Reply #34 on: August 09, 2003, 01:10:59 AM »
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Wrong. Again.


Was that pic before or after he hid out for 2 years to avoid the drug test?
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« Reply #35 on: August 09, 2003, 01:18:50 AM »
It was while he was serving his unquestioned fours years in the guard and it shows a guy that served unlike many of his accusers and detractors.

It shows a guy that got an Honorable Discharge from the service in 1973 (IIRC), something not given to AWOL servicemen.

It shows a guy that still gets slammed by guys like you that have absolutely, to this day, no proof of their glib insults.
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« Reply #36 on: August 09, 2003, 01:28:30 AM »
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It was while he was serving his unquestioned fours years in the guard and it shows a guy that served unlike many of his accusers and detractors.

It shows a guy that got an Honorable Discharge from the service in 1973 (IIRC), something not given to AWOL servicemen.

It shows a guy that still gets slammed by guys like you that have absolutely, to this day, no proof of their glib insults.


Just the FACTS  Jack.
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« Reply #37 on: August 09, 2003, 02:29:38 AM »
what a bunch of sissy studmuffingots.
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« Reply #38 on: August 09, 2003, 08:28:18 AM »
:p

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« Reply #39 on: August 09, 2003, 10:16:28 AM »
Yeah, just the FACTS, Jackie!

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Here's the story as generally agreed upon: In January 1968, with the Vietnam war in full swing, Bush was due to graduate from Yale. Knowing he'd soon be eligible for the draft, he took an air force officers' test hoping to secure a billet with the Texas Air National Guard, which would allow him to do his military service at home. Bush didn't do particularly well on the test--on the pilot aptitude section, he scored in the 25th percentile, the lowest possible passing grade. But Bush's father, George H.W., was then a U.S. congressman from Houston, and strings were pulled. The younger Bush vaulted to the head of a long waiting list--a year and a half long, by some estimates--and in May of '68 he was inducted into the guard.

By all accounts Bush was an excellent pilot, but apparently his enthusiasm cooled. In 1972, four years into his six-year guard commitment, he was asked to work for the campaign of Bush family friend Winton Blount, who was running for the U.S. Senate in Alabama. In May Bush requested a transfer to an Alabama Air National Guard unit with no planes and minimal duties. Bush's immediate superiors approved the transfer, but higher-ups said no. The matter was delayed for months. In August Bush missed his annual flight physical and was grounded. (Some have speculated that he was worried about failing a drug test--the Pentagon had instituted random screening in April.) In September he was ordered to report to a different unit of the Alabama guard, the 187th Tactical Reconnaissance Group in Montgomery. Bush says he did so, but his nominal superiors say they never saw the guy, there's no documentation he ever showed up, and not one of the six or seven hundred soldiers then in the unit has stepped forward to corroborate Bush's story.

After the November election Bush returned to Texas, but apparently didn't notify his old Texas guard unit for quite a while, if ever. The Boston Globe initially reported that he started putting in some serious duty time in May, June, and July of 1973 to make up for what he'd missed. But according to a piece in the New Republic, there's no evidence Bush did even that. Whatever the case, even though his superiors knew he'd blown off his duties, they never disciplined him. (No one's ever been shot at dawn for missing a weekend guard drill, but policy at the time was to put shirkers on active duty.) Indeed, when Bush decided to go to business school at Harvard in the fall of 1973, he requested and got an honorable discharge--eight months before his service was scheduled to end.

Bush's enemies say all this proves he was a cowardly deserter. Nonsense. He was a pampered rich kid who took advantage.[/COLOR] Why wasn't he called on it in a serious way during the 2000 election? Probably because Democrats figured they'd get Clinton's draft-dodging thing thrown back at them. Not that it matters. If history judges Bush harshly--and it probably will--it won't be for screwing up as a young smart aleck, but for getting us into this damn fool war.

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Just the facts. He served, he got an honorable discharge.

Now how many of you knocking him in  this thread can say that?
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« Reply #40 on: August 09, 2003, 10:43:16 AM »
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« Reply #41 on: August 09, 2003, 11:39:46 AM »
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Just the facts. He served, he got an honorable discharge.
Now how many of you knocking him in  this thread can say that?


ME, and I didn't get bumped to the head of any line or blow off the last 2 years of my enlistment.
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« Reply #42 on: August 09, 2003, 11:53:06 AM »
Well, there's one.

Now, put up some proof of your statement:

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he hid out for 2 years to avoid the drug test


Not specualtion, not innuendo, not character assassination...

proof.

Let's see it.
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« Reply #43 on: August 09, 2003, 12:55:09 PM »
Toad - he's just peeved his mentor goron didn't win in 2000

notice there aren't any gore dolls? scared they'd be mistaken for the living breathing one :)
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« Reply #44 on: August 09, 2003, 01:58:41 PM »
Just ask your "War Hero"("Hold me back fellas, I wanna go!") why he avoided taking the drug test. Bush stated he hasn't used drugs since 1974 (Thats after his discharge, hmm)I took mine and didn't flinch when told to. You know full well that society looks at refusing a test as hiding guilt. Just refuse taking the next drug test at work. "If it's good enough for Dubya, it's good enough for me!"

I'm no Gore fan, either. But you have to give him credit for being In Country (Yes he had a skate job there, but he was there). McCain was the best candidate...did he run from his drug tests or skip out on his Duty? Dubya would have peed his silk boxers if he had to face 1/10th of what McCain did.
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