On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 08:58:05 -0400, Horvath
wrote:

On 29 Aug 2004 11:21:39 GMT, (Bobsprit) wrote this
crap:

George Bush has now publically defended Kerry's war record and that's all that
matters.
Kerry served and saw action. He was wounded. Later he opposed the war he fought
in, which was his right as a free American. End of story.
Bush got drunk in those years and showed no national responsibility as Kerry
did.


No national responsibility? Have you forgotten that he enlisted, went
to officer's school, flight school, and became a fighter pilot?

You don't even have that right. Ben Barnes, the Speaker of the Texas
House, after receiving a request from a longtime Bush family friend,
obtained a sport for GWB in the Texas Air National Guard, moving him
to the head of the line, after he scored a 25%, the lowest possible
passing grade for officer aptitude.

As to going to officer's school. Again, bzzzzt. Wrong again. He
received his officer's commission through a special appointment after
6 weeks of basic training. He never had a day of officer's training.
I guess that 25 on his aptitude test dazzled the three officer panel
who recommended that GWB be made an officer with no specific training.

For anyone else, the requirements would have been "eight full
semesters of college ROTC courses or eighteen months of military
service or completion of Air Force officer training school. Texas
National Guard historian said that he "never heard of that" except for
flight surgeons." So, Doctors are often commissioned as officers
without Officer Training, but never pilots. Not even in the Texas Air
National Guard...except one.

He then did attend flight school and was a pilot, until he failed to
take a physical, and lost his flight status with two years remaining
in his National Guard obligation. Coincidentally, or not, this was
during the time that these physicals began drug testing.

For those remaining two years, during which GWB was suspended as a
pilot, he was, on paper, transferred to Administrative duty, although
he never showed up anywhere. Not Alabama or back in Houston.
Finally, after already moving to Boston to attend Harvard, he
requested and received an early discharge.

So basically GWB was given a spot a the Guard, given an Officer's
Commission and provided with flight training at taxpayer expense and
all he was asked to do was show up on a few weekends. He didn't even
do that.