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

To: Skywatcher who wrote (327122)	12/9/2002 4:21:22 PM
From: WTSherman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Sooner or later people are going to wake up to what this administration is all about: keeping the fat cats fat! The choice of Snow is so pathetic as to set a new standard of ineptitude from the Shrubbies. This guy was totally overpaid and underperformed at CSX. He made one dopey move after another, has watched his company's market value shrink year after year, been outperformed by all his competitors.... No wonder the Shrub likes him!! He's as incompetent as Bush is!

To: Skywatcher who wrote (327122)	12/9/2002 4:32:42 PM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Chrissy, want to bet your hero, clinto, will never have this happen to him?? reuters.com Aircraft Carrier Named for Former President Bush Mon December 9, 2002 04:12 PM ET By Charles Aldinger WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Navy on Monday named its newest aircraft carrier after former President George Bush, father of the current American president. The elder Bush told a cheerful Pentagon ceremony that he was no hero. The service's 10th Nimitz-class carrier, to carry the name USS George H.W. Bush, is under construction in Newport News, Virginia, and scheduled to join the fleet in 2009. At 97,000 tons and 1,092 feet long, they are the largest warships afloat. "I don't believe in this hero stuff," the 78-year-old elder Bush told a packed crowd in the Pentagon auditorium. He said those who serve in the military today are just as patriotic as Americans who went off to fight in the Second World War. "It's a great day for us. We are very, very happy and very proud," said Bush, whose plane was shot down in flames by the Japanese in the Pacific in 1944. A Massachusetts native, he joined the Navy on his 18th birthday in 1942 as a seaman. He became the youngest pilot in the Navy at the time when he received his officer's commission and was designated a Naval Aviator before his 19th birthday. At one point in Pacific action, Bush was shot down and parachuted from his Avenger Torpedo Bomber and was rescued by a U.S. submarine. During his tenure in the service he earned the Distinguished Flying Cross and three Air Medals. "I don't think of my generation as the greatest generation. I told Brokaw that," he said, referring to a book by NBC broadcaster Tom Brokaw on American men and women who put aside their lives to fight in the war against Germany and Japan. "There isn't a greatest generation. I don't believe in this 'hero' stuff either," Bush quipped, noting that President John F. Kennedy replied when asked how he became a naval hero in the war, "They sank my boat." "How did I get to be a hero? They knocked my plane out of the sky," Bush laughed. Bush began his career in national politics as a congressman. He went on to become director of the Central Intelligence Agency and later was vice president before becoming president for a four-year term in 1989.