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

To: gao seng who wrote (259057)	5/28/2002 11:30:24 AM
From: Arthur Radley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Facts as you want them to be! Truly amazing that you rely on a phone call that someone was so able to learn that the other party was a Gore supporter....geez! I bet you must love getting spam phone calls as you must believe everything you hear on the phone.. Instead of some mysterious phone call to base your facts, why not go to the written record and the words of the Shrub, who admits that he can't recall where he was....Shouldn't the parties involved be more relevent that some mysterious phone call in which no names are given? "The Clouds Set In The newly-released records reveal that 1st Lt. Bush was credited with 46 days of flight duty from June 1970 to May 1971, expected Guard weekend duty and 'extra' runway standby alert time for that year. However, that would be the last time that Bush fully met his qualified jet fighter pilot obligation to serve four complete years as a fully trained and qualified fighter pilot. Beginning sometime after May of 1971, Bush stopped living up to his sworn obligation to the Texas Air National Guard and thereby his country. By May of 1972, he was credited with only 22 flight duty days, 14 days short of the minimum 36 days he owed the Guard for that year. And then things went from bad to worse. Astonishingly, Bush suddenly disappeared from the skies altogether near the start of his fourth year. Bush flew for the last time in the cockpit of an F-102 in April of 1972. From that point on, Bush never flew again, in spite of the fact that he still had two full years remaining of his six-year pilot service commitment. And on May 15, 1972, Bush simply "cleared this base" according to a written report by one of his two Squadron supervising officers, Lt. Col. William D. Harris Jr. On May 24, Bush requested in writing a six-month transfer to an inactive postal Reserve unit in Alabama, for the stated purpose of working on the campaign of a Republican Senate candidate. If Bush had been temporarily transferred there, he would not have continued flying until he returned to Texas, because the Alabama unit had no airplanes. In fact, Bush's transfer request was denied by National Guard Bureau headquarters on May 31 1972, and Bush should have returned to his base in Houston and continued with his flying duties. Instead, he remained in Alabama until late in the fall. And something critical happened on August 1, 1972 – George W. Bush was summarily suspended from flying duties.

To: gao seng who wrote (259057)	5/28/2002 11:45:31 AM
From: Arthur Radley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

gao, Did you really post this and believe it? "Another thing anyone in the guard can do is put their membership on a sort of Leave of Absence (without pay) which can be done by anyone up to a full year." Here our nation was in a full blown war, and you think that a person in the military can merely get a leave of absence and merely get docked in pay...Gao, what this is really called is AWOL and yeah, they do dock your pay. To suggest that men were dying in Viet Nam and Willie Williams some little darked skin "boy" only had to ask for one of the special leave of absences. Gao, use your sources to tell me how many Willie Williams got one of these special leaves and gave up his $200 a month pay and got out of those flying bullet zones in Viet Nam? Could you get on the phone and call up one of your mysterious and unnamed fact sources and get back to me soon.