[Rhodes22-list] Effros is Misleading

[Steve]

Impressive, Ed.  Bush has my vote:-)
Steve

--- ed kroposki <ekroposki at charter.net> wrote:

> 
> 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
> 
> 
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