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« It Just Won't Go Away | Main | It's Going Away... » February 13, 200414 QuestionsThe Baseball Crank has an excellent post, chock full of links, boiling down many of the key issues in the Bush-AWOL debate, and then posing 14 questions for kevin Drum and others who insist on pushing the lie. One of the amazing things about the Bush AWOL lie is how parts of it persist even though they have been disproven. For example, those pushing the lie will say Bush got into the Texas Air National Guard ahead of hundreds of other applicants on a waiting list to join the TANG, and he was "jumped ahead" of those on the waiting list because of family connections. It's bunk. As Jon Henke notes over at the QandO blog, The Dallas Morning News looked into Bush's military record and reported that while Bush's unit in Texas indeed had a waiting list for many spots, few applicants were willing and qualified to spend more than a year in active training flying F-102 jets. Bush indicated a willingness to train full-time to fly the F-102, making him one of the few applicants able to fill one of the unit's open slots for pilots. Follow Henke's links to The Daily Howler for more details. Posted in Was Bush AWOL?
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Come on, guys. They called it the "Champagne Unit" for no reason at all? It was just a random choice of words? Governor John Connally's kid was in it by coincidence? As was Senator Lloyd Bentson's son? I don't like this "issue" at all, as I've repeatedly said. But to claim that Mr. Bush didn't get special treatment from the National Guard is simply preposterous. I was alive then. I know how hard, indeed almost impossible, it was for the unconnected to wangle Guard spots in '68. Things got much, much easier by '72, as the drawdown proceeded. You really have to try to remember how different things became, starting in late 1970. The Viet Nam war years differed dramatically from one another. It wasn't just the blur that people seem to visualize now. His favored treatment doesn't disqualify President Bush from office, or make him unpatriotic, or anything other than what it is. We really have to strive for honesty and objectivity here, though. You are seeking to deify the man, and it just isn't so. Posted by: Malloy at February 13, 2004 01:28 PMNo one is trying to deify the man, Malloy.(Although, from your previous posts, I would say you are trying to satanize him) This is simply a question of the truth. Bill has given evidence to refute that George Bush "jumped ahead". If you have evidence to the contrary, present it. You have failed to do so so far. Your personal judgement that it is "preposterous" is of little value to me, or, I think, anyone else here. Posted by: Bill at February 13, 2004 06:29 PMI was in OCS when I discovered that the battalion our OC company was in was called "The Champagne Ninth". We never found out what was champagne about our experience there. The origin of the phrase was lost. Post a comment
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