BA> Replying to a message of Bob Klahn to Ed Hulett:

 TR>>>> Hillary Clinton-Rodham, John Kerry, and Al Gore!

 EH>>> Ah yes, the Larry Moe and Curly of the Dem party.

 BK>>  Kerry and Gore went to Vietnam. Bush didn't even show up for the
 BK>> guard in his home town. Kerry is a combat veteran, decorated.  Bush
 BK>> got high and couldn't show up for his physical.

 BA> I don't know that that's true.  The facts are that he was
 BA> scheduled for his annual flight physical and missed it.  He

 He didn't reschedual either. He may not have been high at the
 time he would have taken the physical, but anything he had been
 taking could have shown up in his tests.

 BA> was then *ordered* to report for his physical by his
 BA> commander and ignored it, wangling an assignment to that
 BA> Arkansas unit (that he never showed up at) so he could work

 He never even got the assignment. He applied for it, was
 recommended for it, approved by Alabama, but turned down by
 National HQ. No transfer.

 BA> on his father's campaign (I think that was the stated

 It was a family friend. His father didn't have a campaign in
 Alabama until he ran on the Reagan ticket.

 BA> reason).  The only conceivable (to me) reason for ignoring
 BA> a specific order to get the physical is that he had
 BA> ingested something that he feared would show up on the
 BA> physical's drug screen. Plus he figured - correctly, as it
 BA> turned out - that he had enough political horsepower in his
 BA> father and his father's friends that he could safely ignore
 BA> the order.

 Correct on all points.

BOB KLAHN bob.klahn{at}sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

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