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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (118539)	12/21/2000 11:02:16 AM
From: swisstrader	Respond to of 769667

Yikes!...I had no idea that Powell thought so negatively about Bush: "But Powell’s pride turned to resentment when he thought of those—especially the children of privilege—who avoided combat altogether. “I am angry that so many of the sons of the powerful and well-placed and so many professional athletes (who were probably healthier than any of us) managed to wangle slots in Reserve and National Guard units,” Powell wrote. “Of the many tragedies of Vietnam, this raw class discrimination strikes me as the most damaging to the ideal that all Americans are created equal and owe equal allegience to their country.” (These quotes appear on page 148 of Powell’s book, which was published by Random House.)

To: Bill who wrote (118539)	12/21/2000 11:41:43 AM
From: microhoogle!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

You are probably right. English being my third language I could not understand the meaning of "unkind words". Someone please help this Anglo challenged immigrant understand what kind of expressions are these coming from a son of an immigrant. But Powell’s pride turned to resentment when he thought of those—especially the children of privilege—who avoided combat altogether. “I am angry that so many of the sons of the powerful and well-placed and so many professional athletes (who were probably healthier than any of us) managed to wangle slots in Reserve and National Guard units,” Powell wrote. “Of the many tragedies of Vietnam, this raw class discrimination strikes me as the most damaging to the ideal that all Americans are created equal and owe equal allegience to their country.” (These quotes appear on page 148 of Powell’s book, which was published by Random House.) Of course, Powell didn’t mention the names of any of the “sons” who once made him angry. In fact, his book contains not one reference to the eldest child of the first President Bush, who upon graduating Yale—during the height of the Vietnam War in 1968—managed to earn a highly exclusive slot in a Texas Air National Guard unit that allowed him to escape military conflict for the duration of the war.