"Sparky AKA_Sparkticus" (SNIP) phosgene and mustard gas (what was wrong with blockading Japan, it is a couple of tiny islands) You see this is my problem the Country's that claim to be fighting on the side of GOOD stoop to use tactics that are worse then those employed by the enemy.

Anyone know if G W Bush ever attained combat readiness in the F102? FWIW the ADC F102 program was 10 transition missions (no weapons system training) followed by 36 combat crew training missions. The last mission was a tac-eval check which qualified the stud as combat ready and to sit alert. If GW...

Does anyone know if GW Bush ever completed his 102 checkout and achieved comabt readiness? Did he ever sit Air Defense Alert? Did the USAF/ANG ever get any return after teaching him how to fly? FWIW in ADC it used to take 10 rides to complete a transition (no weapons system training) checkout and...

"The big story out of Florida over the weekend was the tragic devastation caused by Hurricane Charley. But there's another story from Florida that deserves our attention. State police officers have gone into the homes of elderly black voters in Orlando and interrogated them as part of an odd...

Bush fell short on duty at Guard WRONG. According to new documents obtained by the Boston Globe, Bush signed a statement that he would find a new drilling unit in the Boston area within 60 days of locating there. He never did.

"President Bush claims that in the fall of 1972, he fulfilled his Air National Guard duties at a base in Alabama. But Bob Mintz was there - and he is sure Mr. Bush wasn't. Plenty of other officers have said they also don't recall that Mr. Bush ever showed up for drills at the base. What's...

Gary Younge in New York Friday September 3, 2004 The Guardian The US president, George Bush, was transferred to the Alabama National Guard during the Vietnam war because his drunken behaviour was a political liability to his father in Texas, the wife of one of his father's former confidants...

Only in an election year ruled by fiction could a sissy who used Daddy's connections to escape Vietnam turn an actual war hero into a girlie-man. As we leave the scripted conventions behind us, that is the uber-scenario that has locked into place, brilliantly engineered by the president of the...

"There are two medals awarded to members of the Texas National Guard basically for showing up: Texas Govt Code 431.134 Para 1 Texas Faithful Service Medal The Texas Faithful Service Medal shall be awarded to a member of the state military forces who has completed five years of honorable service...

"But Thurlow's military records, portions of which were released yesterday to The Washington Post under the Freedom of Information Act, contain several references to 'enemy small arms and automatic weapons fire' directed at 'all units' of the five-boat flotilla. Thurlow won his own Bronze Star that...

Where to start? "Tonight, I am instructing the leaders of the F.B.I., the C.I.A., the Homeland Security and the Department of Defense to develop a Terrorist Threat Integration Center, to merge and analyze all threat information in a single location. Our government must have the very best...

Kerry has not and will not release either of his records. View Kerry's records he http://awolbush.com/ Walt

"Says retired Air Force Gen. Merrill McPeak, a member of the group who is advising John Kerry but was Oregon chairman for the Dole campaign in 1996 and a Veteran for Bush in 2000: “I don’t think that this accusation of politics on my part will wash. It’s just this administration has gone away...

|On Friday, a member of that group who was one of Kerry's supervisors in |Vietnam, George Elliott, | |Wrote in 1969: | |"In a combat environment often requiring independent, decisive action LTJG |(Lieutenant Junior Grade) Kerry was unsurpassed. He constantly reviewed tactics |and lessons...

More objective research before jumping to the conclusion of "dishonest and dishonorable" might be very appropriate in this PARTICULAR case! Senator Kerry's 1969 fitness report: "In a combat environment often requiring independent, decisive action LTJG (Lieutenant Junior Grade) Kerry was...

Muzzling the Courts? The Washington Post Wednesday, July 21, 2004; Page A18 FOLLOWING THE Senate's burial last week of a proposed constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, foes of same-sex marriage are back with another radical proposal. This time they are pushing a bill that would prevent...

Oh ho! The Pentagon said Bush 43's military records had been destroyed. Guess what? Dulicate copies exist. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=544&e=16&u=/ap/bush_military_service WASHINGTON - The Associated Press asked a federal judge Friday to order the Pentagon (news - web...

Paul Krugman, 7/20/04 NY Times: In the original version of "The Manchurian Candidate," Senator John Iselin, whom Chinese agents are plotting to put in the White House, is a right-wing demagogue modeled on Senator Joseph McCarthy. As Roger Ebert wrote, the plan is to "use anticommunist hysteria as...

More on Bush in the Air Guard http://www.glcq.com/bush_at_arpc1.htm SUMMARY An examination of the Bush military files within the context of US Statutory Law, Department of Defense regulations, and Air Force policies and procedures of that era lead to a single conclusion: George W. Bush was...

To put it in perspective, here are 9 ways Bush got favored treatment in the service due to his political connections (he was then son of a Congressman and grandson of a former Senator): 1) He got into the Guard by pulling strings, avoiding the year and a half waiting...