In article ,
Jack wrote:

On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 18:32:41 -0700, Steve Hix
wrote:

In article ,
Jack wrote:

Bush was in a chamgaigne unit to avoid the draft. Plain and simple.

A unit that was, at the time he joined, sending pilots on tours to Viet
Nam, among other places, in the Palace Alert program.

You keep forgetting that...

No, I didn't forget that. F-102 jocks flying recce in Viet Nam needed
500 hours in the aircraft.

Which was pointed out to him when he inquired about signing up for the
program.

George W. Bush had less than 300 when he refused his annual flight physical.

Which he did because he was no longer on flying status (the unit was
swtiching from F-102 to F-101, and his hitch had too little time left to
make retraining worth the effort.

My point was not against those
flying the F-102 in the ANG. Many of them did stand up and fight when
called.. George W. Bush simply wasn't one of them.

Since he was never called to do it, you've got not standing for argument.

He was serving as required by the terms of his enlistment; it's no fault
of his that the aircraft they trained him to fly was being taken out of
service.

To know the neocon chickenhawks ....... watch what they do .... not
what they say...... Jack

It's pretty clear that you're not interested in any inconvenient facts.