Why do Liberals criticize President Bush for his military service?

Question

Why do Liberals criticize President of the United States of America for serving in the military in the Texas Air National Guard from 1968 to 1973 but they praise former President Bill Clinton who never served in the military?

And do not tell me that George W. Bush never served or he went AWOL. Although I am not 100% sure what he did for the military but I do know one thing, he was interested and he signed up. You cannot say the same thing about Bill Clinton.

Answer 1

" Although I am not 100% sure what he did for the military"

That's the issue. Bush's records went "missing". How come we can find most government officals military records but can't find Bush's. Plus, how can you not mention Cheney's 9 military deferments ?

Answer 2

George Bush joined the National Guard. At the time of the vietnam war, the feds did not use national guard troops overseas. That is a recent phenomenon. Joining the national guard was a way of avoiding service. The US trained him as a pilot, quite expensive, and then he decided he would fly no more, coincidentally refusing to show up at a physical. Officers do not know where he was, and he had no active duty requirements. They can produce no records of what he did in the service for the whole last year. (he does not indicate what years his drug history was).

Clinton did not serve, and admits it. Cheney draft dodged his *** off. And he is a hypocritical hawk. Bush wasted the government training qand relied upon dad's influence to see to it he did no real service. He is a liar.

Answer 3

you may desire to all make an apology to President Bush, and right here is why: on an identical time because it particularly is authentic that the chemical weapons that have been latest in Iraq have been previous and degraded, their existence DOES instruct that they've been there the completed time. They have been there whilst Saddam instructed the worldwide that they weren't. They have been there whilst Bush and Powell instructed the worldwide that they've been. and that they've been there all alongside, even on an identical time as you have been right here interior the States, screaming approximately how Bush had lied approximately them. as in case you human beings could have had some thought approximately Saddam's weapons skill. as in case you knew, or had even the slightest clue what you have been speaking approximately. i might exceptionally much guess that ninety 9% of the folk who talked approximately as Bush a liar won't be able to call the 4 categories of banned weapons in Iraq, and can't tell which of them have been chanced on and that have been no longer. Face it. you don't understand what you're speaking approximately. yet you stored raving and yelling, postpone your little signs and warning signs, as though that grow to be going to do something for all of us. Even now, you nevertheless call him an fool, or a liar, and you nevertheless refuse to have faith that the weapons in question ever existed. And for all that, you may desire to make an apology.

Answer 4

Contrary to the conventional wisdom, Lieutenant George W. Bush did not avoid service in Vietnam by joining the Texas Air National Guard. He volunteered for Palace Alert, the program by which members of the Air Guard did duty in Vietnam. The trouble was that he had been trained and qualified in an aircraft which was superseded by a later aircraft. Over 50,000 members of the Air Guard and National Guard served in Indochina. One of the most decorated units was a National Guard artillery outfit from West Virginia.
Even today, most of the protective air missions being flown in our skies under Operation Noble Eagle (the defense plan for the homeland) are being done by the Air Guard and Air Force Reserve. I get a little sick about those who think that joining the National Guard or Air National Guard is an "easy out". It isn't!

Answer 5

I am not a liberal but I resent that this administration has not listened to the generals or forced the generals that spoke their minds out of the Pentagon. I don't care about Bush's service but I do think that a man that served in combat would be better suited for conducting a war... a lot of times in our history we did not have the luxury of that BUT we have never been in a war that we actually instigated with a combat inexperienced president.

I don't care about Bill Clinton... He's irrelevant; I live in the now and Bush is the one who has been leading us into a fiasco and continues to do so.

Answer 6

To some extent I think it's human nature to criticize people that you disagree with ideologically.

But in the political arena...arguments/questions such as yours (AKA the strawman) are used to shift focus from real issues to minor peripheral points...thus avoiding...or at least re-framing the issue as being about something else altogether.

And ultimately...isn't your attempt to vilify "Liberals" just as shortsighted and divisive as what you're accusing them of doing?

You openly admit that you don't know the details...but since your a neo-con...your certain that you're right...and the "liberals" are wrong. To heck w/ the details...you feel it...so you must be right??!! Again...this is exactly the same as what you're accusing the "Liberals" of doing...only in reverse.

In your haste to point the accusatory finger at others for their partisanship...it seems that you fell in the same hole yourself. Alanis Morissette would call that ironic....LOL


**Edit**
To desertviking_00...you make some very valid points.

But the participation of a relative handful of Guardsmen in country doesn't diminish the fact that the Guard was often chosen as a way to substantially limit...if not completely eliminate the possibility of seeing action in the Indochina theater. You know as well as anyone that there was a disproportionate number of regular military and draftees selected to fight....compared w/ Guardsmen.

And as for the odd coincidence that just as his training was completed...the manner in which he was trained to serve became obsolete...what do you think the chances that his father's contacts had prior knowledge of the pending obsolescence?

If he truly desired to serve in Indochina...as so many of his fellow Guardsmen did...how hard would it have been...for someone with his connections... to make that happen?

The question is not ...is the National Guard a less valid way to serve...clearly it is not! And...it's not an attack on the Guard itself. It's an attack on serving the Guard in name only...while others...like you... took their service seriously...and served w/ honor.

Which is more honorable....being upfront about NOT wanting to serve and finding a way to avoid it...or saying that you do want to serve and then NOT actually doing it?

Answer 7

The only time Bush served his time in the military was his Tom Cruise look alike as flew on the aircraft carrier to proclaim "Mission Accomplished." He thought he was called up for service.

Answer 8

i dont know, but i wish they wouldnt. i think that anyone who has fought for our country and risked their lives for our freedom should be highly respected and given gratitude, no matter who it is.

the majority of liberals will take the side of other liberals (a.k.a. bill clinton) no matter the subject.

i hate it when they criticize president bush for his service, it's not right. what have they done for our country? most of them, nothing.

i cannot tell you why they do this, but i hope they soon realize what idiots they're being and shut up. we dont need their negativity.

ttyl.

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Answer 9

I really didn't care either way about him dodging Vietnam. He had the ability to do it so he did. Thats fine with me. What I don't like is the Hypocrisy of people who gave Clinton garbage about dodging the draft but gave Bush none. It's the same people who hammered Clinton for smoking pot but said nothing about Bush doing Cocaine or being an alcoholic.

Answer 10

He didn't serve. Sorry to tell you, but it's true. If you're not 100% sure - research it. We now put people with similar service in jail for not serving as they signed up to do.