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To: Pogeu Mahone who wrote (276356)	2/5/2004 10:04:33 AM
From: Knighty Tin	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 436258

zeus, this guy has been all over this story. He's the only mainstream journalist who has the guts to buck a very vindictive White House. Desertion might be too tough for a NoGo (NG is the symbol for National Guard) no show. All the rich and connected kids did it during Vietnam. War is generally for the benefit of the wealthy but fought by the poor folks and the people of color. So, I don't think he should be court martialed at this late date. However, he has several questions to answer: 1. Why was he discharged as a First Lieutenant? Nearly all pilots are discharged from NG service as Captains or higher. 2. Why did he skip his physical? Was that part of his drug and alcohol problem? 3. Why does he pretend to be a warrior when he was obviously a shirker? Clinton was a draft dodger, but he didn't pretend to be anything else.

To: Pogeu Mahone who wrote (276356)	2/5/2004 10:17:14 AM
From: mishedlo	Respond to of 436258

Bush's Guard service: What the record shows A detailed Globe examination of the records in 2000 unearthed official reports by Bush's Guard commanders that they had not seen him for a year. There was also no evidence that Bush had done part of his Guard service in Alabama, as he has claimed. Bush's Guard appointment, made possible by family connections, was cut short when Bush was allowed to leave his Houston Guard unit eight months early to attend Harvard Business School. Before the Globe report in May 2000, Bush's official biography reported erroneously that he flew fighter-interceptor jets for the Houston Guard unit from 1968 to 1973. In a 1999 interview with a military publication, Bush said that among the values he learned as a pilot included "the responsibility to show up and do your job." In August 1972, Bush was suspended from flight status for failing to take his annual flight physical. In May 1973, Bush's two superior officers in Houston wrote that they could not perform his annual evaluation, because he had "not been observed at this unit" during the preceding 12 months. Message 19771480