Bush: "I was not prepared to shoot my eardrum...to get a deferment"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/163815p-143464c.html

W left Guard unit too soon

'Bama-bound without OK from Texas

By LARRY COHLER-ESSES and BOB PORT
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

April 1972 Takes last flight as a Guard member.

July Misses annual flight physical.

Sept. 5 Gets authorization to work on the Senate campaign and also is authorized to perform some of his service in Alabama. Records indicate he was paid for six days of service in October and November. No one has vouched for seeing him there, but Bush insists he reported for duty.

Sept. 29 Is suspended as a pilot for failure to take annual physical.

Early 1973 Is paid for six days of service in January and two days in April. Bush's father becomes chairman of the Republican National Committee.

Sept. 18, 1973 Arranges to leave the Guard six months early to attend Harvard Business School. A deal for early release was not unusual at the time.

"I was not prepared to shoot my eardrum out with a shotgun in order to get a deferment. Nor was I willing to go to Canada. So I chose to better myself by learning how to fly airplanes."

Dallas Morning News, Feb. 25, 1990

[katym]

1. LMAO....there was my laugh for the day!! n/t

[LibraLabSoldier]

2. People wonder why

those of us in the Military are gonna vote Kerry this fall....Because Kerry had the cajones to go to Vietnam. Nuff said.

[schultzee]

3. George, you were too much of a wuzzie to do what McCain and

Kerry did too. You were nothing but a little weak frat wimp who was really frightened. You were a just a chicken hawk by supporting the war but not by going. Coward.

[kodi]

4. so, he's telling us that he did not have the courage to be a coward

?

[buycitgo]

5. lessee, in the spirit of swiftliars, how bout this quote?

''I was not prepared to shoot my eardrum out with a shotgun in order to get a deferment.''

becomes

''I was.....prepared to shoot my eardrum out with a shotgun in order to get a deferment.''

what's the diff?

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

6. The difference is...

...going to Vietnam would have hurt...physically, mentally, probably both.

...shooting out his eardrum would have hurt...

...having his daddy get him into the National Guard, leaving without permission for Alabama, requesting permission 9 days after he arrived and requesting a transfer to a mail sorting facility and getting denied and eventually getting out early anyway because his last name is Bush didn't hurt...

That seems to be the difference to me...

[dweller]

7. compare/contrast

"I was not prepared to shoot my eardrum out with a shotgun in order to get a deferment." ...*moron

"At any time that an actual threat is posed to this country or to the security and freedom I will be one of the first people to pick up a gun and defend it." John Kerry, 4/22/71


dp

[DeepModem Mom]

8. Thanks for posting this important reminder of Bush's "service" record!

[moondust]

9. I doubt that he flew airplanes all by himself.

He can't even ride a bicycle.

Aw, too bad he couldn't have found an easier way to become a draft dodger. Poor guy! Oh well, a draft dodger in uniform can still "better himself". Others could serve the country and the cause of freedom.

(It's all about serving yourself, isn't it George?)

[Zorra]

10. This article fully indicates that Bu$h was a DESERTER. n/t

[leftchick]

11. DESERTER, DESERTER ,DESERTER , DESERTER...............

He even looks stoned in the fucking photo... :puke:

[SoCalDem]

12. "shooting out an eardrum" would have gotten him more than a deferrment

Does he know where the eardrum is even located :crazy:..

Our loss to be sure :)