(May 23, 2013 at 11:52 am)DeistPaladin Wrote:(May 23, 2013 at 10:47 am)festive1 Wrote: Bottom line: The National Guard was a safe haven for those wanting to avoid service in Vietnam. There were so many men trying to get into the National Guard, that there were waiting lists to be accepted. This is a recognized historic fact, commonly accepted and asserted by historians, if not by you. You don't have to accept it, but it doesn't change the factual reality and makes you look like an ostrich burying his head in the sand to avoid reality.
And regardless, at the end of the day after all the spinning is done, Bush made a choice: National Guard in a relatively safe place (where risk of being sent to Vietnam wasn't 0% but still lower than absolute certainty) or Army and certainly fight in the war he cheered on.
He made his choice to serve in the National Guard rather than Vietnam.
So, even assuming that Barnes is lying, Bush served his entire time of enlistment, no family influence was ever used, and all the Democratic charges are all lies and smears, at the end of the day after all the spinning is done, Bush still made a choice.
He chose to go to the National Guard instead of the Army.
Ergo, chicken-hawk. Q.E.D.
Quote:...at the end of the day after all the spinning is done, Bush made a choice:
Cliche: At the end of the day, you still haven't proven anything...Bush joined the Air National Guard to train as a fighter pilot at a time when the ANG and NG were being called up to serve a year of duty in Viet Nam, (1968-1972)...Regardless of whether or not that Bush or any other guardsman went to Viet Nam, you still have to prove that Bush intended to avoid fighting there by joining the ANG...and you haven't done that...
Hence, You're still FOS
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