Does in not seem ironic that Bush, an AWOL officer who never saw combat, made a Memorial Day address?

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He is not worthy as president or commander in chief.
Nor can he account for his enlistment or explain how he got placed to the head of the line for service in the TANG.
I find it passing currious how he can talk about sacrifice and duty .

Clinton, Clinton, Clinton, Clinton, Clinton, Clinton, and ...Clinton, . and more Clinton. Clinton here, Clinton, there, Clinton Clinton everywhere !
Its really funny how this is supposed to be a rebuttal.
No one yet can PROVE Bush honorably finished his service. Its funny how this is yet to go away.
One of the myriad differences between Bush and Clinton is if Clinton did NOT serve, at least he did not fail to fulfill his oath of duty to the military by going AWOL. Can it be Bush would not pass a drug test required of pilots ? One wonders.
His servivce records are incomplete.

Maax P: Not only is it a river in Africa, but denial is a very common recourse to those on uncertain ground. There in no proof Bush was NOT AWOL.. Back in my day, that would have gotton you a BCD.

fdj 1: No Bush has not EARNED my respect. He is only a hired hand occupying the White House and I am one of his employers. I respect the Office of the Presidency, not necessarily the person in it. Read what Theodore Roosevelt had to say on that topic sometime.

Until his entire service record is published, one can only assert he fully served his term of enlistment.
I don't defend Dan Rather. Some GOP intreagers fed him poisoned bones and he went for it. - Should have know better. We know he never saw a second of combat - and he is so willing to spend the blood of others. I stand by my conviction he was AWOL from the " Champaign Squadron" of the TANG . His father and Ben Barnes pulled strings to get him there, for what good it did.

Pantagruel: UNION BANK,
Ah yes, : connected the the Nazi industrialist Thiesson. Its funny how CEOs of Texaco, DuPont, Ford Motor Company openly supported the Nazis until they declared war on us.
But some, just a few, like ICC, Texaco and Prescott Bush did not see fot to stop money laundering for the Third Reich until the Feds hit his bank with the " Trading With the Enemy Act " in 1942. This is the source of the Bush Family Fortune, made on the backs of slave labor in Poland. A fine American crime family.

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Yes it is rather ironic and rather disghusting. As a veteran I am insulted by it.

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Debunking The Bush AWOL Story - From The Horse's Mouth
Brig. Gen. Turnipseed | February 6, 2004 | Hon


Posted on 02/06/2004 3:58:26 PM PST


I just got off the phone about an hour ago with Brig. Gen. William R. Turnipseed. He is the sole source for the four year old story that Bush was AWOL during his National Guard service.

Mr. Turnipseed is very unhappy with the way what he said "casually" four years ago has been twisted by the "Bush haters" (his words) in the media, especially the Boston Globe (who first reported the story) and the New York Times.

In a nutshell here is what happened, according to Turnipseed. Back in 1972 his Alabama National Guard unit received a letter from Bush (who was in the Texas Nation Guard) asking if he while he was in Alabama do some equivalancy training with the Alabama unit.

Turnipseed said that this request was as a matter of routine turned over to his administrative assistant, Lott, who wrote back to Bush, giving him the dates of the next unit drills. Lott told Bush he could report for those dates.

Neither Turnipseed nor Lott can now remember whether Bush appeared for these drills or not. Turnipseed says he himself might not have even been around the base at the time, so he wouldn't know one way or the other. And he says he has always said this.

The points Turnipseed wanted to stress are these: Bush was never ordered to report for duty to his unit. Since Bush was in the Texas National Guard and Turnipseed was in the Alabama National Guard, he couldn't have ordered him even if he had wanted to. But he didn't want to.

He (or his assistant, Lott) simply gave Bush the dates he could report if he wanted to do equivalency training with them. There were no orders given. If he showed up or didn't show up, it wasn't their concern.

Additionally, Turnipseed says that he never once said anything about Bush being "AWOL." He said it isn't even a term used in the National Guard. And anyway, as already noted, Bush's training record was not his concern, but the Texas National Guard's.

He said that since the Texas National Guard gave him an honorable discharge it shows that he fulfilled his training requirements.

Turnipseed said that the media has constantly misrepresented what he said and edited him so as to make Bush look bad.

He also said that he had no idea who Bush was, and that he certainly didn't do him any special favors. Nor would he have.

He said that when he first spoke to the Boston Globe reporter about this four years ago he didn't realize he was talking to a "Bush hater."

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George Bush knows nothing of sacrifice or honor when it comes to serving his country in the military. The National Guard back in that day was not like it is today. It was first and foremost a way to avoid going to Viet Nam and avoid the draft. It is outrageous that he presents himself as anything other than what he was, a draft dodger just as Bill Clinton was.

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IRONY OF IRONY'S We all know he didn't do his patriotic duty ...but what can you expect from someone who's daddy was raised by a convicted traitor of the United States ! Prescott Bush was a convicted NAZI supporter ! Check it out if you don't believe it ! Is there any other President that had family ties to the NAZI's? BUSH IS A NAZI FASCIST ! PROVE that I'm wrong about his gran-pa ....come on ...anybody...didn't think so !

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Better to move and avoid the draft (like I'm sure many would do today) than going AWOL when all you has to do is fly planes in Texas. Yes, Bush is an insult to all who actually serve.

Answer 7

You don't think Clinton ever made Memorial Day addresses while he was in office? He dodged any kind of military service altogether. I'd say that was pretty ironic, don't you?

Edit: Bush was in the National Guard....Clinton went overseas. What more evidence do you need?

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Not as much as Clinton(dodger), Carter(SSN JO), Reagan(Army Training Films), Nixon(USN), or any other President never to see combat.

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Please, stop the allegations, okay. How many Memorial addresses do you think Clinton made in 8 years?? No service record there at all as I recall. Pretty curious how he could talk about sacrifice and duty, isn't it.

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Do you see it as ironic that the liberals made up a story about Bush being AWOL; got caught red handed lying about it; it cost one of their most fervent mouthpieces and propagandists his job yet they still continue to spew the same lie as it were the gospel.

Is that ironic or merely stupid.

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George W. Bush, the true 'patriot'? I am willing to bet my life, as low as it is, Bush do not flinch a crooked eye every time a U.S. military dies in Iraq and/or Afghanistan.