Paula Zahn will have guy who served in TANG w/Bush on tomorrow.

[blm]

The guy who wrote the Moonie Times column saying he served with Bush.

He juices up their service in Texas, but he still offers no evidence of service in Alabama.

Maybe we should deluge Paula and let her KNOW we won't be fooled.

source: http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20040210-082910-8424r.htm

'Bush and I were lieutenants'
George Bush and I were lieutenants and pilots in the 111th Fighter Interceptor Squadron (FIS), Texas Air National Guard (ANG) from 1970 to 1971. We had the same flight and squadron commanders (Maj. William Harris and Lt. Col. Jerry Killian, both now deceased). While we were not part of the same social circle outside the base, we were in the same fraternity of fighter pilots, and proudly wore the same squadron patch.

It is quite frustrating to hear the daily cacophony from the left and Sen. John Kerry, Massachusetts Democrat, et al., about Lt. Bush escaping his military responsibilities by hiding in the Texas ANG. In the Air Guard during the Vietnam War, you were always subject to call-up, as many Air National Guardsmen are finding out today. If the 111th FIS and Lt. Bush did not go to Vietnam, blame President Johnson and Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, not lowly Lt. Bush. They deliberately avoided use of the Guard and Reserves for domestic political calculations, knowing that a draftee only stirred up the concerns of one family, while a call-up got a whole community's attention.
>>>>>>>>>>
While most of America was sleeping and Mr. Kerry was playing antiwar games with Hanoi Jane Fonda, we were answering 3 a.m. scrambles for who knows what inbound threat over the Canadian subarctic, the cold North Atlantic and the shark-filled Gulf of Mexico. We were the pathfinders in showing that the Guard and Reserves could become reliable members of the first team in the total force, so proudly evidenced today in Afghanistan and Iraq.

It didn't happen by accident. It happened because back at the nadir of Guard fortunes in the early '70s, a lot of volunteer guardsman showed they were ready and able to accept the responsibilities of soldier and citizen — then and now. Lt. Bush was a kid whose congressman father encouraged him to serve in the Air National Guard. We served proudly in the Guard. Would that Mr. Kerry encourage his children and the children of his colleague senators and congressmen to serve now in the Guard.
In the fighter-pilot world, we have a phrase we use when things are starting to get out of hand and it's time to stop and reset before disaster strikes. We say, "Knock it off." So, Mr. Kerry and your friends who want to slander the Guard: Knock it off.

COL. WILLIAM CAMPENNI (retired)
U.S. Air Force/Air National Guard
Herndon, Va.5  
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[rockymountaindem]

1. As many have pointed out,

we're not bashing the Guard, we just want to know where Bush* was in Alabama. And while this guy was waking up early to go flying, John Kerry was being wounded. So, who had it easy?

[ithacan]

2. What Colin Powell says in his own book about the National Guard

In Secretary of State Colin Powell's autobiography, My American Journey, he says, "I am angry that so many of the sons of the powerful and well-placed managed to wangle slots in the Army Reserve and National Guard units... Of the many tragedies of Vietnam, this raw class discrimination strikes me as the most damaging to the ideal that all Americans are created equal and owe equal allegiance to their country."

http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:TZV7blfPQd0J:www.augustachronicle.com/stories/042903/let_124-5535.shtml+My+American+Journey%2Bcolin+powell%2Bnational+guard&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

Please please please someone throw that in the face of the right wing whores!!!

[Eric J in MN]

4. but today Colin Powell kept saying "don't go there" to a

but today Colin Powell kept saying "don't go there" to a Senator or Congressman who referred to Bush's AWOL issue.

[ithacan]

8. yes, and now you know why

:-)

[madmax]

3. Hey Campenni

:puke:

[grasswire]

5. Ask Campenni...

...how he saw Bush's Alabama pay stubs (as he claimed, on FOX news today) when he also claims they didn't travel in the same circle?

When and in what circumstances did Campenni see Bush's pay stubs?

Is he lying? Or is he part of the team that scrubbed the records?

[Bronco69]

6. Someone should check

Campenni's bank balance for a big fat right wing deposit.

[ComerPerro]

7. No!!!!

While most of America was sleeping and Mr. Kerry was playing antiwar games with Hanoi Jane Fonda, we were answering 3 a.m. scrambles for who knows what inbound threat over the Canadian subarctic, the cold North Atlantic and the shark-filled Gulf of Mexico.

While "Mr. Kerry was playing anti-war games", Bush was doing god knows what and probably high on cocaine.

[Fridays Child]

9. It promises to be a real "Bob Boudelang" moment.

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