I love the left's obsession with GW's Guard Service...he is vulnerable on so many other things, yet they choose to pound on this issue, and marvel at why they can't get any traction.
The irony here is that the left is criticizing someone for avoiding Vietnam. Has nobody else noticed this? They are the ones who burned draft cards, went to Canada, and inflicted bodily injuries upon themselves so that they would be unfit for service. What's more, GW actually said he didn't want to go to Vietnam, "so I chose to better myself by learning to fly" rather than "blowing out my eardrum with a shotgun".
Hey Dems, get it? He admits he didn't want to go. He does not admit he did anything illegal or unethical. Every night before bed, I would bet that Bush thanks God for the Dems' foolish obsession with his military service.
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10573 wrote:
"Actually, what troubles the left about Dubya's lack of service is his use of his connections to stealthily avoid his civic duty, not the fact that he avoided Vietnam. The issue is not avoidance of Vietnam; the issue is exploiting your position in society to your personal benefit at the expense of others."
Lack of service? He acquired almost triple the required points. He is also reported to have volunteered to go to Vietnam, but they wanted pilots with more flight hours. Granted, there is at least one "gap" in the documentation regarding GW's service. But as Rumsfeld said about WMD, "absence of evidence is not the same as evidence of absence".
I also don't understand why the references to family connections. He didn't need any, because there was no waiting list for the Air National Guard. It was the Army National Guard which had a waiting list.
I am open to evidence. Evidence I have seen to-date persuades me that GW did not want to go wading through the rice paddies, and that he found another way to do his service.
I still say the Dems are forgetting their anti-war bona fides. I may have been imagining things, but as I watched the convention this year, I sensed a confusion among the delegates as they repeatedly heard Mr. Kerry's Vietnam service lauded. I didn't think the Democrats were ready to run a "war hero" for president.
FYI, I have relied, so far, on PowerLine
and Little Green Footballs. They have both been clearinghouses for info about GW's TANG service.
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