Bush was in Viet Nam....

[kentuck]

For all the talk about his missing time in the Texas Air National Guard, it has come to our attention that George W was in Viet Nam. He actually was a chopper pilot for a couple of months. He wanted to get a sample of what it would be like to be in "real" combat, in case he were to ever think of running for president someday.

Not only that, he was also on a swift boat for a few weeks. He was patroling the Mekong River, the same river that John Kerry allegedly got his medals. He actually came under fire more than a couple times. He was lucky he wasn't shot. He was no chicken hawk. George was not down in Texas or Mexico or Alabama as a lot of his detractors have tried to insinuate. He was in Viet Nam. He was in combat. So people should stop trying to tear down his service record.

[Syncronaut Seven]

1. Bob? Is that you?

Sterno is bad for you.

[IdaBriggs]

2. I am so confused...?

This is satire, right? I've learned so much from being on DU lately that for at least a moment or two I wondered! :) Best, Ida

[kentuck]

4. Oh no satire....for real...

Bush was in Viet Nam....He was on a secret mission for the CIA..

[AntiCoup2K4]

29. Poppy trusted him to fly the opium out of the Golden Triangle?

Must have been a bad year for heroin if none of it ever made it over ;)

[vetwife]

3. I hope you are using sarcasm here Kentuck because I get pretty fiery

over people thinking this is real.....He is a Chickenhawk ! He is BS and what are you smoking? If its sarcasm..please so note. If not PROVE IT !Don't you think he would have his own band of brothers rather than his own band of criminals...LOL

1000 posts and you are claiming this Bullshit ! Surely you jest !

[kentuck]

He is no Chickenhawk ! Stop saying that.!

He is a hero!

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

11. Now Kentuck...

Do we have to have that talk about sniffin' glue again? ;-)

[Demonaut]

5. he's kidding.................he did get you though, lol

[Rebellious Republican]

10. Simmer down vetwife, kentuk is one of the good guys, he's been

around here for a long time and has a dry sense of humor. He's jus' pullin ire leg's, dontcha know. ;)

[vetwife]

28. Ok Kentuck..You got me..That sounded just like Rove had hopped aboard !

You are good...Hey Kentuck..Maybe you could infiltrate the Bush Camp and REALLY screw them up more than they are doing...LOL

[Jack Rabbit]

6. . . . and I am a retired Kamikaze pilot

!!

[Osama_Bin_Winnin]

9. How many

successful missions Jack ?

[renegade000]

13. heh there are

a few surviving kamikaze pilots incidently.

[renegade000]

14. heh there are

a few surviving kamikaze pilots incidently.

[Jackpine Radical]

17. Flew 17 Kamikaze missions, right, Jack?

[Jack Rabbit]

18. I flew a successful Kamikaze mission

. . . few every honest day of work G. W. Bush put in in his life.

So there.

[kodi]

7. his code name was willard. he was on a mission

.

[AlCzervik]

8. I also heard that he pretended

to be intelligent and well versed on foreign and domestic issues.

[PsN2Wind]

12. I was sure that just before the election

we would allowed to at last learn the reason Dubya can't prove he was in Texas or Alabama at that time was because he was flying black ops missions into Laos and Cambodia for the company. The White House will probably release a copy of his "Get-out-of-jail-free" card soon.

[peacetalksforall]

15. Right...he was right there and because of his innate humbleness and

modesty, he asked that his heritage not be made known so that he could be a regular joe and make friends with the kids from the barrios and the kids with the degrees and all the in-be-tweens - patriotic all - who were all just like him - brave, sincere, and dutiful.

[DieboldMustDie]

16. "I've been to war.

I've raised twins. If I had a choice, I'd rather go to war."

-- George Dubya Bush, January 27, 2002

And we all know Gee Dubya never lies. :crazy:

[PsN2Wind]

19. That quote should have been;

"Someone went to VietNam in my place and a nanny raised the twins Given the choice I drank"

[kentuck]

20. You know, some people want him to go on with Tim Russert.....

and explain what he was doing while he was getting shot at defending our butts over there in that jungle. Now is that fair? He was protecting your sorry ass, you know. You have no right to say he was AWOL and doing cocaine and whores. He's a patriot. You people just have no respect...

[Octafish]

21. Bush was in the Space Navy, too!

Where Bush REALLY went in 1972

See. George W Bush is not a crazy unelected moron traitor. He just acts that way on TV.

[Bozita]

23. It's a real shame that Dubya has to hold his tongue on this!

Why can't all newspapers contain more pictures?

[Swamp Rat]

22. OK, you win the "Bob Boudelang" look alike contest.

... or is this an audition to write the column?

"Bush is not like Hitler! So stop saying that!" - That's my favorite saying. It could be modified to: "Bush was NOT AWOL! He was on a secret mission in Nam!"

[fob]

24. You must have picked up the latest issue of GQ! They got all the

sordid details right there in black and white.

[newscaster]

25. Son of a gun, I just remember......

He was my co-pilot in my B-52 as we carried out missions over Vietnam and Cambodia. He was such a wunnnnnnnderful pilot, I let him handle the controls after we landed and rolled to a stop. He even made sounds as though the jet turbines were still turning over. I get goose bumps remembering it.

[kentuck]

26. He got some purple hearts too....

He's just so modest he don't tell nobody about 'em... :)

[doodleysquat]

27. and orange stars and green clovers too!

Oh, that's pink hearts. Nevermind.

[DemoTex]

30. He flew a few SIGINT spy missions with me over the Ho Chi Mihn trail.

He was a crack linguist. He knew most of the dialects of the Vietnamese language and he could copy Morse code at 40 words-per-minute.

Yeah, that's the ticket.