Lt. George W. Bush's Cowardice

[Octafish]

Gee. It seems there WAS a threat to Texas during Vietnam. His name was George W. Bush, recognized today as the Coward of Crawford.



Commentary: Lt. George W. Bush's Cowardice

What we thought was an arrogant rich boy missing National Guard meetings now appears to be a scared boy running from potential military danger.

By Frederick Sweet

Since the 2000 presidential campaign, George W. Bush’s going AWOL in 1972 from the Texas Air National Guard was considered simply a privileged rich boy’s dereliction of duty to campaign for his father’s Republican Party. But recent reports reveal that behind Bush’s ducking Guard duty was classical cowardice.

SNIP...

On April 16, 1972, Lt. George W. Bush’s last paid day in the Texas Air National Guard, the air war in Vietnam became furious. President Richard M. Nixon had ordered massive strikes against North Vietnam, the first since 1968. Nixon was certain that bombing would crumble North Vietnam and give him a smashing victory in the war in Vietnam.

A Newsday article on February 15, 2004, recalled that an April 15, 1972, U.S. communiqué reported that four American aircraft, a Navy jet and three Air Force fighter bombers, were downed in raids against military targets around Haiphong in Vietnam. The Hanoi government claimed 15 planes were shot down, including a B-52. United States Army headquarters insisted that all B-52's returned safely from Haiphong.

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Now it seems clear that Bush’s reason for going AWOL in 1972 could have very well been much more than just working on Republican campaigns. Nixon was heating up the air war in Vietnam and Bush wanted to get as far away from his 147th Fighter Interceptor Group as he could. That is because the 147th was in imminent danger of either defending the southern United States or getting shipped overseas to protect B-52s in their bombing missions over Vietnam.

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http://www.interventionmag.com/cms/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=874

[demnan]

1. The Coward of Crawford

Sounds like it would look good on a sign.

[Octafish]

3. Thanks, demnan! Got just the picture for it.

Ten-gallon hat on a half-pint head.



The Little Turd from Crawford

TLTfC was my fave, but the Coward of Crawford just sings!

Hey! Thanks, demnan! You've given me an idea for my first DU poll...

[Stephanie]

11. Another picture

from a previous Coward from Crawford thread:



http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=662208

[Octafish]

13. The crazy moron could play many roles in that story.

If I only had a brain. Heh heh heh. KKKarl!

Thanks, Stephanie! I knew I got the inspiration from a good DUer*.

BTW: Your photo of the Coward of Crawford made me bust a gut. Just got out of a most serious meeting and it's just what I needed.

* That's not to say that I would avert my eyes. I'd just plagiarize!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. All Hat No Cattle

Ever seen him on a horse other than a pony? Bush is All Hat, No Cattle.

[Octafish]

14. El covarde no es macho.

At every point in the guy's life, he used others to protect his sorry hide. Poppy got him into and through Yale, the Texas ANG and Harvard. And, at every turn, the guy messed up and Poppy fixed things up. Along the way, if he had to work one single day in his life, it's not recorded anywhere. Well, there's one record that even Poppy can't change...

A COWARD IN WAR, BUSH IS NOW BRAVE

http://www.niagarafallsreporter.com/editorial167.html

BTW: You've probably heard of this, Bernardo de La Paz, but it's still nice to plug:

http://www.toostupidtobepresident.com

[Stephanie]

2. The Coward from Crawford. The Crawford Coward.

President Wuss.

[Octafish]

6. W is for Wussy.

The guy's never worked a day in his life.

And if the unelected moron really believed in God, he'd be brave enough to go and fight in Vietnam -- the war he was brave enough to support then and all through the years -- because his body might die, but his eternal soul would always be safe.

[zbdent]

4. "Every one considered him the coward of the Country"

Wasn't that a Kenny Rogers song?

Oh, wait, that's County, and the "coward" kicked ass at the end.

Bush would still be hiding in a corner, sucking his thumb and wetting his flight suit . . .

[Octafish]

7. Never worked a day in his life. And it shows.

The guy always has someone making up an excuse for his own shortcomings -- in this article, cowardice.

Isn't it odd how the nation's press all of a sudden became experts on forged documents? Gee. The main point of the CBS articles were to point out that the unelected moron did all he could to shirk Vietnam.

[City Lights]

5. Great article.

First time I've seen anyone revisit what going on in Southeast Asia the day dub ducked out.

[Octafish]

8. A bad time, then.

A man I knew as a youth piloted F-105 Thunderchiefs. He survived more than 100 missions in southeast Asia. After he came home, he started a business and was about to get married to a wonderful woman. A few days before the big day, he and his business partner (his wife and their infant child) perished aboard their single-engine plane. No one who knew them was ever the same.

[City Lights]

9. Oh my God. How awful.

:-(

[A_Possum]

10. That would be worse than cocaine

And equally possible for a sleazeball like GW, to just "decide" he didn't want to fly anymore because he feared having to go into combat.

He did check the box saying he didn't want to go overseas. And his commander had to replace him with a real pilot who'd already done his service in Vietnam:

Killian memo, Aug 1, 1972

"On this date I order that 1st Lt. Bush be suspended from flight status due to failure to perform to USAF/TexasANG standards and failure to annual physical examination (flight) as ordered:

"...On recommendation of Harris, I also suggested that we fill this critical billet with a more seasoned pilot from the list of qualified Vietnam pilots which have rotated."

*****

Little pr*ck went off to party while a guy who'd ALREADY SERVED in VIETNAM and rotated home had to do his job for him.

[Octafish]

17. SOP: Someone else does the work. A Bush gets all the credit.

GOP historian and author Kevin Phillips in his latest opus "American Dynasty" talks about the Bush and Walker clans. Seems the Walker side of the family contributed a lot of geld and sacrificed their own ambitions to help make the Bushes what they are (such as they are). Of course, the ungrateful Bushes never seem to get around to sharing any of the credit with that side of the family, let alone thanking them.

http://www.americandynasty.net/excerpts.htm

PS Hearsay: George Herbert Walker Bush refers to the average American as "one fodder unit." Seems to make sense of things.

[cheshire]

15. That coward is in the capitol now. OMG dispair

[Mr_Spock]

16. AWOL the COWARD - say if often, say it with conviction

n/m

[Dees]

18. I've been saying for four years now that

* is a cowardly, chicken hawk, drunken, coked up, draft dodging, lying, Vietnam avoiding, rich fraternity boy piece of shit. He never has done an honorable thing in his privileged life including receiving an honorable discharge.

Some of us didn't duck out.

How did this asshole scum sucking clown end up being president? Honor, integrity and character returned to the White House. Well f*ck me running. He is everything I despise in my fellow man.