[Rhodes22-list] Effros is Misleading

[ed kroposki]

Reply is after quote:

"Brad,
The point of the National Guard issue is not Vietnam, any more than the
Clinton Impeachment was about sex.  Both hinge on the question of
Presidential misleading." 

Wrong conclusion - and misleading too boot:  Clinton committed perjury in a
civil lawsuit.  He was disbarred in Arkansas for committing a felony, that
is, the crime of Perjury which is false statements under oath.

The National Guard issue is based on forged documents.  Bush completed
enough flying hours to meet his National Guard requirement.  Your assumption
expected him to compete with those other pilots who still needed time flying
F 102's for the limited number of hours available to stay current.  You are
not going to find it in writing anywhere, but the truth was that since he
was not going make a career in the Guard, those other pilots who needed the
flying time came first.  At that time there was a dwindling number of hours
available in the F 102 because the number that they could keep in flying
condition was getting smaller fast.  There were only two (2) squadrons still
flying the F 102, and they were phasing them out.  If you notice, but I am
sure you did not, there were not any F 102's in the regular Air Force. 
	As to the physical question, if there was a national emergency and
they needed him as a pilot, they could have given him a physical in a couple
of hours.  What is not said, is that in an emergency, the Wing Commander
could have waived the immediate physical requirement and said that take
physical when you get back on ground.
	You and other liberals are trying to read into the National Guard
and military in general things and ways of doing daily business that they
did not take so serious when they occurred.  When he completed his required
hours for flying, which he did, at that point he was surplus.  He was not
really needed, just marking time, a very common military tradition, which
you do not comprehend.  

"George W. Bush ran for President on this issue, saying repeatedly that he
would not mislead the American people.  The extent to which he has misled
the American people about his National Guard record is emblematic of the way
he has misled the American People about virtually everything else."  -- a
very untrue and inaccurate statement.  

"And it doesn't matter on which side of the political fence you place
yourself."  Except to watch you distort the truth! 

"Did W. report for duty in Alabama as ordered?  No, he did not." --You were
not there and can not be the authority for the truth.  When someone arrived
on a base, you told some sergeant that you were there and told him where you
could be reached.  It was put on a note pad for office use, and not keep as
a military record.  I cannot see a duty sergeant or officer remembering who
came and went after a short period of time.  While he was assigned TDY, they
knew how to get him.  Once he was gone, that record would not have been
kept, especially for your benefit.

"But the issue is not military records.  It is misleading."  Yes it is
misleading and You are the one misleading and distorting history!

It is sad that you, Dan Rather, Bill Moyers and others let your dislike for
Bush let you lie and distort history.

I was never a fan of George Bush, but your lies and distortions make me
defend that part of the past.  I was a military officer during that time.  I
base my comments on observations of how it was.  Were you in the military
doing a similar job during that time?  

Ed K