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Botany Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-28-06 05:13 PM
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President AWOL calls Democrats "The party of cut and run."
We are no better then the old communist countries that produced shameless propaganda
for their leaders or Hitler invading Poland to stop their aggression and WMDs.

I want my country back!



http://www.realchange.org/bushjr.htm

Just didn't show up for a year -- with no punishment.
National Guard records and Bush's own supervisor's and friends show no sign of him attending any drills or performing any service for nearly a year, from May 1972 until May 1973. This period began with Bush moving to Alabama for a political campaign.

He later applied to transfer to a base that had no work; the transfer was first approved, then cancelled. Bush did nothing for several months; then in September he applied to transfer to Alabama's 187th Tactical Recon group for 3 months. This was approved, but the unit's commander, General William Turnipseed, and his then administrative officer, Kenneth Lott, have both said that Bush never showed up. "Had he reported in, I would have had some recall, and I do not," said Turnipseed. "I had been in Texas, done my flight training there. If we had had a first lieutenant from Texas, I would have remembered."

Bush claims that he did some work in Alabama, but can't remember any details. “I can’t remember what I did,” he said. “I just—I fulfilled my obligation." Despite 2 years of searching through hundreds of records, his campaign has been unable to find any record of Bush's service there, nor could they find a single fellow serviceman who remembers his presence. The best they could produce was an ex-girlfriend from Alabama -- Emily Marks --who said George told her he would have to do some Guard duty later that year (1972) in Montgomery. But all that confirms is that he knew of his obligation.

In December 1972, Bush returned to Houston and was scheduled to resume duty there. But in May 1973, Bush's supervising pilots wrote in his annual efficiency report: "Lt. Bush has not been observed at this unit during the period of the report" (i.e. through April 30, 1972). Bush described one of the supervisors, the late Col. Jerry Killian, as a personal friend, so it's likely he would have noticed Bush and given him the benefit of the doubt. Later that month, two special orders commanded Bush to appear for active duty. He served 36 days of active duty during May, June and July before leaving the Guard early.

Amazingly, Bush was not disciplined in any way for his absence, and received an honorable discharge. Under Air National Guard rules at that time, guardsmen who missed duty could be reported to their Selective Service Board and inducted into the Army as draftees.
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Pharaoh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-28-06 05:20 PM
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1. Are you calling
Our commander and chief a LIAR!!!:sarcasm:
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Botany Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-28-06 05:28 PM
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2. No more like a 2 bit piece of shit, who is a chickenhawk
and if you look @ this document you can see where he checked off that
he did not want over seas duty i.e. going to Vietnam.

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Phredicles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-28-06 05:30 PM
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3. They sure cut and ran on the torture bill, didn't they?
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kentuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-28-06 05:31 PM
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4. Why is he calling them names...?
They voted for his torture plan?
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