On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 06:06:18 -0500 Cub Driver
wrote:


t he can't
really be a pilot. I mean a true pilot,

Ah, now you are defining pilot!

My original assertion stands. No "real" pilot would put himself above so many
fellow pilots on the most single important day in their history since First
Flight. He would have flown to an alternate and drove in allowing GA to fly.



Here's what the Boston Globe, which first broke the charges that Bush
was AWOL during the last year or so of his Air Guard tour, concluded
in an editorial:

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Those who trained and flew with Bush, until he gave up flying in April


One hand washes the other, eh?

"....
But Bush was serving in a champagne unit that was refuge for the area sons of
privilege. Its ranks included John Conally's son, Lloyd Bentson's son, John
Tower's son, SEVEN Dallas Cowboys, and two sons of the businessman who got G W
Bush into the Guard ahead of hundreds of others on a waiting list."


1972, said he was among the best pilots in the 111th
Fighter-Interceptor Squadron. In the 22-month period between the end
of his flight training and his move to Alabama, Bush logged numerous
hours of duty, well above the minimum requirements for so-called
''weekend warriors.''

Indeed, in the first four years of his six-year commitment, Bush spent
the equivalent of 21 months on active duty, including 18 months in
flight school. His Democratic opponent, Vice President Al Gore, who
enlisted in the Army for two years and spent five months in Vietnam,
logged only about a month more active service, since he won an early
release from service.

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I conclude that Bush was a pilot and a military man, and that you
aren't much of either.

Most people consider someone that goes AWOL to be a coward.


Plonk!


Name calling and plonking. So you're out of gas, so to speak. I'll
bet you plonk all those that offer opposing views. Nice and tidy, eh?

R. Hubbell



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