kelticwizard wrote:McGentrix:
Bush was a graduate from Yale, How many other candidates for flight school were? You speculate and pretend it's fact. It isn't, it's speculation. There is ZERO evidence, even anecdotal evidence that demonstrates Bush Sr. was responsible for getting Bush Jr. in the guard. You wish there was, so there is.
There are three parts to this. First, Bush had to get into the Guard, then become an officer, then get into flight school.
There was a waiting list of 500 men to get into the Texas National Guard. Bush had not applied, and his student deferment ran out in 12 days. Bush was immediately accepted over 500 other men. Please show me any evidence where a Yale degree entitles you to jump over 500 men, many of them college graduates themselves, who had been waiting a year and a half.
Second, after completing eight weeks basic training, Bush gets
appointed as an officer. He had no ROTC, degrees or minors in engineering, anything. Just gets appointed. That is also not normal, even for college graduates.
Third, his officer's appointment made it possible for Bush to go to flight school, (only two slots open), even though on the Pilot's Aptitude Test he scored-get this-
25%!!! [/b]. Gee, that Yale degree resulted in an impressive showing, didn't it? Two slots open, bush scores 25%, but he gets the appointment.
No strings pulled? Then why did the guy in charge of the unit, Staudt, insist on getting his picture taken with bush Jr upon his acceptance to the Guard and his graduation from flight school? In fact, Bush was accepted a day or two before-Staudt just wanted a special occasion to get his picture with the young Bush.
Evidence that Bush Jr. knew the F-102 was going out of service in VietNam? McGentrix, Bush Sr was a
Congressman. He votes on military appropriations bills. If he has any questions about planes and their likelihood of being employed in VietNam in two years, he just
asks. they have to give him that information. He's voting on the bills!
Are you trying to say that after all these anomalies occurred, all these strings being obviously being pulled, that it is just
coincidence that young Bush ended up on a plane that wasn't being sent overseas? Please.
Granted, one of the websites below is partisan. but it's info is largely backed up by the Washington Post and the Guardian.
http://www.realchange.org/bushjr.htm#got%20in
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A7372-2004Feb2?language=printer
http://www.guardian.co.uk/US_election_race/Story/0,2763,206136,00.html
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/heraldleader/news/opinion/8467053.htm