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jedicord Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 01:45 PM
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Another dumb Freeper e-mail, I won't go into details (promise)...
about Bush saluting all the Air Force graduates, unlike Clinton who picked and chose.

Snoped it, about.com'd it, googled it, nothing.

Anybody? This was sent to me by a good girl who knows I can give her an answer she can return with quickly, so it's for a good cause.

My initial response to her was that the general rule for hoaxes and e-mail trash is that if there is no author cited or links proving "facts", it's a pile of crap.
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sniffa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 01:47 PM
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1. sounds Like a new version of
the miLitary guard never saLuted cLinton, or somehow showed him disrespect. if it's just a regurgitation of that myth, then snopes does have it.
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sangh0 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 01:47 PM
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2. Civilians aren't supposed to salute military personnel
and POTUS is a civilian. The fact that our military is led by CIVILIANS, and not soldiers is a source of pride for Americans, and the repukes dishonor the American system of govt by acting as if Bush* was a soldier
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DebinTx Donating Member (389 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 01:48 PM
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3. Ask her why
it is that Bush won't acknowledge the dead military arriving back home. I'd call that picking and choosing.
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aden_nak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 01:51 PM
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4. Bush Only Salutes LIVE Soldiers
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jedicord Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 01:54 PM
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6. The dead guys can't vote!
But their parents can...
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jedicord Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 01:55 PM
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7. Great answer - I'm using it! n/t
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dorktv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 01:54 PM
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5. If bush saluted all of the air force grads then he would have no time to
misgovern. There are a lot of Air Force grads out there.

Point out to her: Presidents have a lot of demands on their time, if Bush really is saluting the Air Force Graduates every time there is a graduation then he would be ignoring all of the other branches of service, as well as taking time from concerns that are more important (like making sure that we have a good CIA chief).
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