Bush DESERTED: controversy over his point counts:
For goodness sakes here's what you're supporting (why?):
Kerry: volunteered, went into combat, saved lives, went into gunfire, still buds with his boat crew, earned 5 medals
Bush: refused to go overseas, got into a cushy job he wasn't qualified for, went mentally ill or into serious drug or alcohol use, disobeyed direct orders to take a mandatory physical, deserted, was saved by DAD as usual.
Why in the world would you want to put lipstick onto this pig? Why?
It's one thing to support a good human being doing the best he can and serving honorably. It's another to defend a schmuck who has proven time and again that he feels entitled to everything but is responsible for nothing.
Is that what you really believe as well? 100% entitlement and 0% responsibility? Is it?
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"...A review of records shows that not only did Bush miss months of duty in 1972, he also may have been improperly awarded credit for service, making possible an early honorable discharge so he could turn his attention to his new interest: Harvard Business School....
But there are no records from the 187th indicating that Bush, in fact, appeared on those days in October and November, and more than a dozen members of the unit from that era say they never saw him. After the election, Bush returned to Houston. By January 1973, he had a new job, with an inner-city youth program. And he continued his erratic relationship with the Air National Guard, where he had 18 months left of his six-year commitment. By the summer of 1973, Bush decided to go to Harvard Business School. According to documents released by the White House, he wanted an early discharge from the Guard, but did not have enough service points for 1972 and 1973, since he had missed months of training. Guardsmen were required to earn 48 points each fiscal year, or 4 points for each weekend drill every month.
Although missed drills can be made up, regulations at the time said it had to be done within 30 days and in the same fiscal year. As the time for his early discharge neared, Bush was lacking enough points; according to records for July 1973, he attended drills on 18 days that month. A retired Army colonel, Gerald A. Lechliter, who has prepared an extensive analysis of Bush's Air National Guard record and describes himself as a political independent, said that Bush was not entitled to 20 credits he received from Nov. 13, 1972, until July 19, 1973, because the service was being made up improperly.
Lechliter also said that Bush should not have been paid for these sessions. "That would appear to be a fraud," he said last week.
However the points added up, on Oct. 1, 1973, Bush was awarded an honorable discharge. By that time he was already at Harvard.
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