WHY IS IT THAT BUSH GOT A GRAVY JOB IN THE GUARD DURING VlETNAM AND WENT AWOL YET KERRY ACTUALLY WENT?
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He was out catching DUI's with his buddy's, and he was to drunk to show up for duty, is what the reports said, before they erased them.\n\nGeorge Bush that is!
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Cheney got 5 (count 'em, FIVE) deferments because he was in business school. (He's not as old as he looks.) He told one interviewer later on that he had "other priorities" besides serving his country. (So did a lot of other people, but they didn't have the luxury of a choice.)\n\nBush jumped to the top of a waiting list of 500 to get in the Texas Air Nat'l Guard despite scoring in the 25th percentile on the test (as low as you could score) and having NO relevant experience. The unit he was in was called the "Champagne Unit" and "Air Canada" because it was where prominent Texas politicans (including Democrat Lloyd Bentsen) stashed their sons to keep them from having to go to Vietnam. He then went AWOL for a year and got out early without fulfilling his obligation.\n\nDid they dodge the draft? You decide.\n\nBy the way, I don't believe that military service should be a requirement for the Presidency, but if there's a draft, you support the war and/or your parent is voting to send other people's children off to die, you'd better either go or be doing something to stop it. Bill Clinton's behavior wasn't exactly exemplary, but at least he did oppose the war - he didn't sit cheering it on from the sideliens.
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Kerry stated that students my get "stuck in Iraq" if they don't study hard and do their homework. People took this as an insult to our troops, and called him on it. He came out with an apology saying that he had no intention of offending those in uniform. He mis read the telepromter (or something to that affect) and botched up a joke directed at Bush and his hadling with the war in Iraq.
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How many combat tours did you and bush do combined?\n\nBy the way, Kerry IS one of US troops so he could never insult us.\n\nBush hid from the VietCong in a cushy stateside champagne drinking unit reserved for NFL players and Politicians sons.\n\nHe gets appointed in 2000, and NOW he claims to support us.\nNot buyin it.
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Sorry, your facts are well, wrong. Bush did not desert the military. While his national guard service was not stellar, he served until released. Dan Rather retired, he was not fired:\n\nOn September 20, 2004, he made a televised apology for the CBS News failing to verify the authenticity of questionably documents used in support of a "60 Minutes II" (1999) story about President George W. Bush's military record in the Texas Air National Guard. A two-person investigative panel formed by CBS said that a "myopic zeal" on the part of the CBS News to break the story, which the panel found to be be neither fair nor accurate and did not meet the organization's internal standards. As a result of the panel's findings, CBS fired four CBS News employees, including three executives. Although the panel placed no specific blame on him, the incident damaged his credibility and was believed to have led to the announcement of his retirement as anchor of the "CBS Evening News".
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He has been to war, and knows what war is. Do you? Neither does your shinning star, you know the idiot that was appointed to occupy the white house. Then rigged the second election. Real hero that didn't even finish his commitment to the air guard. Cut and run is just some more repuglican rhetoric for there is more money to be made from this war and we do not care how many young people die for no reason.
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It's called falling on your sword.  People have been complaining about Rumsfeld and the aimless way the war in Iraq has been conducted.  He should have been fired in 2004.  After the Republican's monumental loss last night, Bush had to make a show that he finally gets it.  Yeah, they said Rumsfeld resigned, but he was asked to resign to make it look like Bush is making a fresh start.
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He became president only because he is a master of elections he knows how to win elections, may be by hook or crook. just like his father. But truly speaking why would somebody deliberatly not do any work for the country, all presidents are same and bush is no exception.
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Although I highly doubt that he will leave of his own will, if he did leave I think it would leave a big slot to fill for whomever stepped into it. He's made such a mess of things with the military. It would be great if he left, one way or the other, but it would be intersting to see who would step in to his place. Anyone with prior military experience I think would be better for the job.
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After serving our country, he served under our current president, then he got sick from swallowing so much B.S. and then having to spit it back out to the American people he got even sicker. His integrity finally got the better of his conscience and he must have told his fearless leader he couldn't do it any longer, or either Cheney, or Rumsfeld, or Rove realized he wasn't going to continue lying for then and ditched him.\n\nI only regret that this man chose to be so foolish at to serve this administration his first time around in politics. I bet they smashed the crap out of his idea of what serving America through politics meant and he probably also realized they were killing any possibilities of any future political aspirations he may have.
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Evidently he was not serving his time at the Alabama Air Guard unit he was assigned to. A  $10,000 reward for anyone to come forward with proof they served in the Alabama Air Guard with Bush has never been applied for. If I had "served" with a future president of the U.S., I'd damn well remember it and be $10,000. richer.
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If you ask Bush he will say "Because God wants me to be president."  If you ask me, I think people were afraid to change the guard because of the war.  Basically, the American public said: hey, you guys messed up with this war thing but why don't you try and finish it anyway.  I am still shocked.
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He is more then just an embarrassment to the United States, he is dangerous. He evaded the draft by going in the Air Guard, that kept him out of Viet Nam and he didn't even finish that so what do you expect from him. I have learned not to expect any leadership from him as he has made so many bad decisions. So maybe it is good that he is putting this decision on the next president because he would sure mess it up.
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Went to your first link and found the quote, the exact words. So they did report it.\n\nI've now heard three explanations of what happened. One it was a joke. Two, it was a joke and he messed up his lines, and now it was a statement about Bush.\n\nNow, I can understand how anyone can mess up a prepared speech, but to say you stand behind your statement and then say that its a botched joke about the president....and they know that’s what I was talking about.\n\nYes I know what you were talking about, our troops, you said it plain and simple.\n\nI don't understand why John Kerry just doesn't apologize for the statement, unless he meant it about our troops.
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Kerry is a phony, a traitor and unamerican. He doesn't rate that silver star. He is no hero, just an opportunist, was then, is now. He should be tried for treason. Every combat marine in Vietnam was more of a hero than that jerk. They didn't get silver stars though. His wounds were petty and unworthy of three purple hearts. Who gets to go were they want to, and leave when they want to in a  combat tour. Only Kerry and Gore could do that.  I'm a former FMF Navy corpsman and proudly served with 3d Marine Division in Vietnam.
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I can understand why you were shocked.  The media has an agenda.  Every single Republican President since Nixon is labeled dumb and stupid by his opponants and by their friends in the liberal media.  When the truth comes out about Bush having a higher GPA than Kerry, all the mind-numbed sycophants on the left have to finally face reality. The truth hurts as they say, and in this case I'm sure it's particularly painful.\n\nBy the way, Kerry looks like a retarded orangutan in that picture.
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Actually, NONE of these people SERVED with Senator Kerry ::sigh::\n\nBut you republictards just don't care for facts do you?