02-08-2008, 07:52 AM
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Banned
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Originally Posted by The_Jazz
.....Back on topic, I have to wonder how the guy that's ALWAYS had a problem with authority (and one need look no further than his military record for confirmation of that fact) will act if he ever becomes the embodiment of the global power of the US. The two seem at loggerheads to me.
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Uhhh....no need to wonder.....there is a recent precedent....
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http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feat.../calhoun_bush/
....Large rewards have been offered -- by cartoonist Garry Trudeau, among others -- to any former Guardsman who can prove that Bush showed up in Alabama to serve, yet nobody has yet claimed the cash prize. And Calhoun won't win the money, either.....
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/ar...oane040908.htm
....Lawrence Korb, a former Assistant Secretary for Defense for Manpower and Reserve Affairs during the Reagan Administration, said it was apparent that President Bush "had not fulfilled his obligation."
"When I look at his records it is clear he didn't do what he was supposed to do," Korb says. "Since he didn't do these those things, he should have been called to active duty."....
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp...nguage=printer
...As Bush's father was considering a job offer in late 1972 from Richard M. Nixon to become chairman of the Republican National Committee, the younger Bush stayed with his parents in Washington for the holidays. In a now famous incident, he took his then-16-year-old brother, Marvin, out drinking and ran over a neighbor's garbage cans on the way home; and when confronted by his father, he challenged him to go "mano a mano" outside....
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Last edited by host; 02-08-2008 at 08:17 AM..
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