Time to put your head between your knees and kiss your ass goodbye

[kellinator]

Bush to address nation:

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/03/17/sprj.irq.main/index.html

My cousin David is a Navy chaplain with three young children. They won't tell us where he's stationed, but we believe it's Kuwait. Apparently he has a lot of soldiers coming in wanting to talk.

What I'd like to know is, if Bush is so certain this is worth risking lives for, why isn't he out there on the front lines?

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Re: Well....

[sujata.livejournal.com]

He was allowed when he was a young man, however. Yet all sorts of strings were pulled to ensure he wasn't sent to Vietnam (sp? sorry, brain is sore from final exams, please excuse me for any spelling mistakes, typos, etc.!). Indeed, he didn't even complete his term of service in the Air National Guard, or whatever the hell it was. (Please excuse also my foggy memory. I know his service record was incomplete and that there were shady maneuvers employed to prevent him from being sent into combat. I'm just too sleep-deprived right now to trust myself to accurately report the details of which branch of service he was in and which shady maneuvers kept him out of action.)

So while you are correct in stating that he isn't permitted to participate in combat now, as President, you are wrong to imply that he'd fight if he could. His own service record proves the man has no courage...unless it's somebody else's blood in danger of being shed.

Re: Well....

[the-yellow-king.livejournal.com]

My apologies if you think I meant to imply that he would fight on the front lines; as you have so excellently pointed out, he avoided service in Vietnam. [1] I don't think he would go on the front lines as it is. I was merely pointing the political/logistical/etc reasons as to why he doesn't go to the front lines, even to visit and rally troops and all that. Kind of a far cry from the days of FDR, really.

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[1] To be fair, Bush is not the only rich kid that got out of it. So did Clinton and a host of other rich kids of the time on both sides of the political fence. The wonders of money!

Re: Well....

[kellinator.livejournal.com]

Say what you will about Clinton, he was not a rich kid. His avoidance had a lot to do with a certain thing called being an Oxford scholar.