**TOONS** -- BUSH & VIETNAAAAAM!

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K&R

AWOL 1972-1973

Where were you in '72?
Most of us remember...Bush does not...

It's now well established that George W. Bush never showed up for National Guard duty for a period of approximately one year, possibly more, in 1972-1973. Despite all the talk about "honor and dignity," Bush seems to have a problem meeting his commitments.



http://www.awolbush.com/

He had no right to wear the Air Force Outstanding Unit Award (AFOUA).

http://www.awolbush.com/awards.asp

He didn't earn anything else either but I think this is worth pointing out for those who might not already be aware.

Just like the Gentleman's C he got in college. (If his name had not been Bush, he wouldn't have even been permitted to stay to get his F's.)

The late night show hosts will have a field day.

Now, where have we seen this pose before?

Bush will assert that our exit from Vietnam "emboldened" today's terrorists. Incapable of admitting utter catastrophe in waging a 21st Century war of aggression that has left the U.S. armed forces debilitated and incapable of effectively fighting even a single theater war against a real enemy, and unable to face up to the wreck visited upon the fiscal house of the nation by irresponsible tax cuts for the rich coupled with unending, uncontrolled costs of vaporous war against a stateless band of criminal maniacs, the President of the United States of America is about to go all the way back and blame Richard Milhouse Nixon for this miserable failure of a Presidency.

If there's anything at all to the talk about paranormal phenomena, let us hope that, one night very soon, Nixon's ghost comes roaring into Mr. Bush's bedroom, rips the twit off the mattress, and slaps the snot right out of him. And once Nixon's ghost is finished, then the ghosts of 54,000 or so U.S. soldiers killed in the Vietnam War can all show up at once and have their turn at rudely awakening him from his neo-con dream world.

http://uncapitalist.com/blog/?itemid=1557

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The result of an investigation into George W. Bush's lost year in 1972 reveals a cocky privileged son who used his family connections to avoid military service in Vietnam and spend seven months in Alabama partying. He clearly skipped out on National Guard duty and avoided a mandatory drug test, all while learning the politics of "dirty tricks," deception and coded racism in the land of George Wallace.

Bush avoided Vietnam by using family connections to move ahead in line for acceptance into the National Guard in Texas. He was assigned to train as a pilot on the F-102 Delta Dagger, a plane scheduled for the scrap heap, guaranting Bush would never have to fly in Vietnam himself.

Bush is no military hero. He is no Wesley Clark, or John Kerry, both of whom earned purple hearts and other medals for being injured in the line of duty.

http://www.southerner.net/blog/awolbush.html

I Took Bush's Place in Vietnam
July 19, 2003
By Jack Balkwill

http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/03/07/19_vietnam.html

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Article 85 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice has a word for this: deserter.

(a) Any member of the armed forces who—
(1) without authority goes or remains absent from his unit, organization, or place of duty with intent to remain away therefrom permanently;

Unlike most of his fellow Yale students, Bush supported the Vietnam War. But when he graduated in 1968, he did not enlist to fight for his country - unlike Wesley Clark, John Kerry, and Al Gore. Instead, while hundreds of thousands of poor and middle-class draftees were facing death in Vietnam, Bush used his powerful family's connections (which he falsely denies) to get a safe and cushy slot in the Texas Air National Guard at Ellington Air Force Base in Houston. This was the start of a 6-year commitment, and taxpayers invested $1 million to teach Bush to be a pilot. But Bush flew for only 22 months after he finished 2 years of training. In his fourth year he was credited with only 22 flight duty days, 14 days short of the minimum 36 days he owed the Guard for that year. Even from the safety of Houston, Bush failed to fulfill his duty to his country.

On May 15 1972, Bush went absent without leave - AWOL.

http://archive.democrats.com/display.cfm?id=322

does not belong ...

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nt