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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
There is no "most" despicable.
His entire life is a fabrication of lies. His entire resume is false.
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Boy, you
are pissed, aren't you?
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Bush served a full 4 years in the Texas Air Nationals dangerously flying combat aircraft and who volunteered for pilot service in Vietnam (and being rejected for not having the requisite experience).
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If he flew them dangerously, I guess it's better for all of us that he didn't go.
But seriously, really? He volunteered? I did read about Marc Raicot saying so to NPR, but
this is the closest thing I could find.
- "Had my unit been called up, I'd have gone . . . to Vietnam," Bush said. "I was prepared to go."
But there was no chance Bush's unit would be ordered overseas. Bush says that toward the end of his training in 1970, he tried to volunteer for overseas duty, asking a commander to put his name on the list for a "Palace Alert" program, which dispatched qualified F-102 pilots in the Guard to the Europe and the Far East, occasionally to Vietnam, on three- to six-month assignments.
He was turned down on the spot. "I did [ask] – and I was told, 'You're not going,' " Bush said.
Only pilots with extensive flying time – at the outset, 1,000 hours were required – were sent overseas under the voluntary program. The Air Force, moreover, was retiring the aging F-102s and had ordered all overseas F-102 units closed down as of June 30, 1970.
Bush volunteered for service in a unit that was being wound down (and did shut down months later) and for which Bush could not have qualified in any event.
Youve' become red-faced with rage about the details of Kerry's proximity to Cambodia on Xmas, but you're comfortable with this characterization of "he volunteered?"
