Toto

He heroically avoided Vietnam by joining the National Guard. He seems to have gone AWOL even there. ( http://www.awolbush.com ) Se he never actually had any real military days and was never heroic (unlike his father, who actually did fight in a war.) "Bad ass" only applies to his drinking and his college stunts, some of which got him arrested.

Beats me why the military would accept him as their own. Maybe they realize they don't have any choice.

GaryP

Many moons ago (late '80's ?), I remember seeing a TV program (Nightline?) on which the guest was an author.

He claimed in his book that GHW Bush was involved in a possible war crime.

The story was about Bush and one other fighter pilot who came upon a lifeboat which had several Japanese survivors on it.

According to documents the author supposedly found in official Navy archives, ONE of the pilots scrafed the lifeboat, without any provocation. This apparently killed or wounded all the occupants of said lifeboat. The documents were not clear as to which pilot shot the defenseless sailors, but the author was asking for an investigation.


I've never heard this anyplace else.

abe smith

I was hurriedly flicking thru the NYT a day or two ago and saw headline that Saddam Hussein has challenged GWB to public debate. This (if the rumor is true) short-circuits my Modest Proposal. Will GWB go cold & unrehearsed into such a sitch? Or will he merely ignore the challenge as infra dig?