A Dodger Not a Warrior by Jimmy Breslin

[acmavm]

http://www.newsday.com/news/columnists/ny-nybres153671427feb15,0,5554531.column?coll=ny-news-columnists

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There can be no dispute that George Bush attended some drills in the Texas Air National Guard in the first four months of 1972. By then, there were 56,000 dead Americans and the air losses in Vietnam continued. It isn't difficult to count Bush's days on duty in the Texas Guard because he wasn't present so many times. Only 26 days. If George Bush had been a milkman, children would have starved.

He believes he is a warrior president. He is not. He is a war dodger. He confuses himself with George Patton, and proudly passes a National Guard record around all over America.

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On April 16, 1972, the American raids on Haiphong and Hanoi were reported from Hanoi by Agence France-Presse:

"Anti-aircraft guns fired on a formation of American F-4 fighter bombers early Sunday as the planes swept low over the North Vietnamese capital. The Hanoi radio said that American jets struck inside and outside Hanoi seven hours after the Haiphong raid. The Associated Press also reported. The Hanoi government claimed 15 planes were shot down, including a B-52. United States army headquarters reported that all B-52s returned from Haiphong."

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Whether this was part of the communique about four planes missing or was about two more losses, is unsure. What we're sure of is that, on April 16, Bush was training to lead his country in war by packing his bags in Texas and moving to Alabama, and that pretty much ended his fighting career although he did wage war on cavities in that dentist's chair at Maxwell Field, Ala.

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Has there ever been a president who seems less bothered by young dead than George Bush?

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[Lindacooks]

1. I love Jimmy Breslin

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[glarius]

2. "Has there ever been a president who seems less bothered by young

dead than George Bush?"....This line gets me....I have felt the same thing about Bush....How completely unmoved he seems to be by all the people who are dying because of his orders to go to war....He shows NO COMPREHENSION of the magnitude of the loss of life, both American and Iraqi....

[Demonaut]

3. one day when we're old and grey, we will remember shrub and spit

on his legacy

[dennis4868]

5. "one day when we're old and grey, we will remember shrub and spit"

and on his grave!

[Manix]

4. shrub is a truly despicable human being.

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