Bush grounded to keep him away from nukes?!?

curlyred

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Mon Mar-15-04 05:55 PM
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Bush grounded to keep him away from nukes?!?

Military rules used in 1974 to ground two Washington Air National Guard airmen with access to nuclear weapons also applied to a Texas Air National Guard unit where Lt. George W. Bush was a fighter pilot.

Some military researchers and a former Texas Guard lieutenant colonel believe the stringent regulations -- known as the Human Reliability Program -- may have been invoked to stop Bush from flying Texas Air National Guard jets in 1972.

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http://www.spokesmanreview.com/breaking-news-story.asp?submitDate=200431401040

Ironic, isn't it, that he may have been grounded because he couldn't be trusted with the big ones and now he sits in control of ALL the nukes.

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seabeyond

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Mon Mar-15-04 05:57 PM
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1. oh ya and now we hire him to have his finger on the red button

i feel better, grinnin

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opihimoimoi

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Mon Mar-15-04 06:05 PM
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2. Many other world leaders served small time in their military

and rose to the office of President. Most were amateur militarists. Bush is no diff. He is not the brightest star by any means. For him to wage war unilaterally on skimpy grounds, which now turns out to be false grounds, was a crime.

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