Originally posted by BP: lol. first he bogarted his way into the nat guard, then was reprimanded by his commanding officer for half-assing it, and then stripped of his flying privledges. he may have technically met his obligation but that's not a record i'd be proud of when mentioning military service.
but the bush admin is hemorrhaging right now and i don't see any positive news for him on the horizon.
So this CBS producer & Rather spend 5 YEARS trying to make the same points...and ALL they come up with a 4-5 forged documents and an 86 yr old guard pool secretary (who is on record as being anti-Bush) who says the documents are fake but those are the real sentiments of Killian...except Killians own family disagrees. And all you can do is reguritate the same 40 year old story with no proof...pretty weak.
What do you know of stripping flying priveleges anyway....I was in naval aircontrol for 5 years. I PERSONALLY was involved in stripping 2 pilots flight privleges for BAD FLYING. Further, I knew MANY excellent pilots that missed physicals for various reasons, transfer being a common one, and temporarily lost flight status...this is no reflection on anything. So did many aircontrollers who need the same flight physical..If the squadron needed a pilot for duty, they grab a flight surgeon and sign him off in about 30 minutes! Big frickin' deal! 1973 was a time of excess pilots, that's why nobody CARED if Bush's physical elapsed and why he got an honorable discharge. You DO NOT get an honarable by disobeying DIRECT orders...period. To ANYONE with any military aviation experience, Rather and anyone else who spouts that BS looks like a fool!
The story goes on...now memo being traced to local dems in a county in Texas where it "coincidentally" happens that Rather's own daughter is a dem activist and where Dan himself gave a Kerry fundraiser!! Just sideshow just keeps getting better all the time...
Bush is hemmorrhaging to the tune of increasing his lead in Gallop to 13% points and PA & MN have shifted toward Bush's column... The American people as a whole are not buying the BS and not buying what kerry is selling.
Kerry is sinking...but maybe if you pull him back in the boat you can get a bronze star..
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