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August 14, 2004
President AWOL
Here's a great column from Jeff St Clair over at Counterpunch, detailing all the sordid details of President Bush's military "service" (which is to say, how he went AWOL, pulled strings to avoid combat, scored barely above idiot on his flight exam, but somehow was allowed to fly planes with the TX Air National Guard anyway, etc.) Makes for good reading, and provides some context for Ws duplicity.
Of course, the fact that Bush effectively dodged the draft in Vietnam is just about the only good thing he ever did. At least it kept him from killing Vietnamese (something Kerry can't say), but to dodge it while supporting the war is an especially putrid form of hypocrisy (see Dick Cheney, Dan Quayle, William Bennett, etc)
Posted by timwise at August 14, 2004 05:19 AM