Why didnt GEORGE BUSH serve any tours in vietnam?

Question

My dad served two tours and now he is deceased from AGENT ORANGE...That was nice of the government to dump that poison on its own soldiers wasnt it.Then they dont even compensate the families that have lost loved ones.Shouldnt Bush have served in Vietnam also.My dad passed from mutliple myloma,and soft tissue sarcoma,at 51 years of age.These two cancers were directly related to his exposure to Agent Orange.

Why,???I dont want to here your chickenhawk delusive questions.

I dont blame GW for agent orange,I blame noone.But the people that were responsible for producing it and releasing it should compensate the families.I lost my home my dad worked for his whole life.I didnt get to go to college or live a normal life because this happened when I was 15 years old.
So how would you feel if this happened to you.

Would it make you a happy person?

Answer 1

OK so that was bad
Sorry about your Dad and we are very thankful for his service
to our country
I know that will never replace your Dads presence or his health
but you know they didn't know how bad it was at the time
they thought they were saving lives
it was a long time ago and they didn't know what they know now
there was stuff going on after the gulf war that was bad too deformed babies?

Answer 2

A class action case was settled out-of-court in 1984 for $180 million dollars, reportedly the largest settlement of its kind at that time.

The Settlement Fund was distributed to class members in accordance with a distribution plan established by United States District Court Judge Jack B. Weinstein, who presided over the litigation and the settlement. Because the plaintiff class was so large (an estimated 10 million people), the Fund was distributed to class members in the United States through two separate programs designed to provide maximum benefits to Vietnam veterans and their families most in need of assistance:

Applications for the Payment Program had to be submitted prior to December 31, 1994 by Vietnam veterans or their survivors.

The Payment Program operated over a period of 6 ½ years, beginning, after appeals, in 1988 and concluding in 1994. During its operation, the Settlement Fund distributed a total of $197 million in cash payments to members of the class in the United States. Of the 105,000 claims received by the Payment Program, approximately 52,000 Vietnam veterans or their survivors received cash payments.

Did your father, you or another survivor apply?

By reading some of your other posts, it's obvious you hate the Bush administration and no matter what has happened in the past, present, or future, it will be his fault.

Allot of people have had a hard life, I don't blame anyone for the cards I was dealt and I don't rely on a payday from a sacrifice someone else made. Instead I worked my a-s off and still continue to do so.

By the way, I included a website if you are really interested in knowing more. Not sure if your just blowing off steam.

http://www.vba.va.gov/bln/21/benefits/herbicide/#bm04

Answer 3

The reason Kerry joined and Bush didn't was because Bush came of age right when the war was the most unpopular and the largest backlash against it. Had he been Kerry's age, he would have been sucked into the void, but since he was a few years younger than he came to the age where most people avoided the draft.

Answer 4

A LOT of people didn't serve in Viet Nam. My step dad's brother got THREE deferments. When they finally made him go, he did his 2 years active duty Army serving as a MP AT WEST POINT!
If the President should have served in Viet Nam, so should have THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS of others.
Why not ask WHY DIDN'T EVERYONE SERVE IN VIET NAM?
Agent Orange was NOT dumped on U.S. servicemen. It was dumped on TREES and VEGETATION. Get your facts straight.
By the way, what color did your dad say AGENT ORANGE was?
Why aren't YOU serving? HMMMM? Got connections so you don't have to go in? Or is there another 'reason'?

(USN, retired/in-country Viet Nam vet)

Answer 5

Because he is stupid not a fool. We knew that the Nam was just a meatgrinder so that the politico's could look good back home. That war was wrong on so many level's. In Bush's case remember that by the time his number was up it was the CIA's war. Poppa bus was Director there of. The shrub maybe the original mommas boy but his daddy still takes care of him.

Answer 6

Inane post ... Agent orange damaged a lot of folks, sorry if your dad was one of them. Bush got into the Air National Guard, probably with the help of family connections, just as thousands did. He did not flee to Canada, or do as your obvious idol Bill Clinton and support the enemy with his anti-American 'tour'. Get over it, your dad is dead, mine was killed in a senseless war too, Korea but I don't blame the political folks like Truman for it. I live my life without self pity, something you should try.

Answer 7

It goes kind of like this: Not every member of the United States military who was on active duty, reserve duty, or National Gaurd duty during the Vietnam war served in Vietnam. However, that does not diminish the fact that Bush is still an idiot.

Answer 8

I don't think you can blame George Bush for the
agent orange in Vietnam. Bush flew a military
airplane, as I recall. He has more than a few head-
aches being the Commander-In-Chief of all the
military than he would have being one soldier.
Not everyone served, you know. Many stampeeded
to Canada (Bush didn't). Many declared unwilling to
fight because of their religion (Bush didn't) and the
government then told which guys would serve, but
Bush's military are all volunteer, no such "draft" of
those who wish not to serve their country.

Answer 9

I beleive he was drunk at the time, the whole time.

PS AGain with the WWIII BS?

PS I love that Clinton didn't serve either arguement! So Clinton is a role model for the right?

PSS To the guy below. Bush was never in the Draft lottery. The lottery happened years after. He joined the Texas Air national guard, which has been viewed as a way to avoid combat.

Answer 10

He was the Air National Guard training on an older plane that was being phased out, I think.