On 17 Aug 2004 20:20:04 -0700, Brett Robson  ...
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>On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 11:40:49 +0900, Michael Cash  ...
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>>On 17 Aug 2004 18:58:22 -0700, Brett Robson <jet_boy@deja.com> brought
>>down from the Mount tablets inscribed:
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>>>On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 23:22:51 +0900, Michael Cash  ...
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>>>>On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 13:22:36 +0000 (UTC), mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net
>>>>brought down from the Mount tablets inscribed:
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>>>>>Kevin Gowen <kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:
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>>>>>>>>>Personally I think he toned down because GW had a drug problem. At least
>>>>>>>>>that's the rumor; don't know if I've ever read anything factual about 
>>>>>>>>>that topic. Personally don't care. I dislike GW for other reasons.
>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Because he's a rich fat cat?
>>>>>
>>>>>>> Naw, cause he's an idiot draft-dodger.
>>>>>
>>>>>> I thought that Vietnam was immoral, illegal and ignoble? That is why 
>>>>>
>>>>>Sounds a bit like Iraq, if you put it that way.
>>>>
>>>>You mean 35 years from now GW is going to run for president based on
>>>>the Iraq Police Action?
>>>>
>>>
>>>It's my understanding that Bush II is the US President to ever wear uniform
>>>while in office.
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>>I wonder what President Washington wore when he personally rode at the
>>head of troops to quell the whisk(e)y rebellion in Pennsylvania.
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>>With a precedent like that, I don't see how anyone can bitch about
>>flying onto a carrier being unpresidential.
>>
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>was he president then? What rank does a President wear? 6 stars?
>
>The current US law states very clearly the chain of command and although the
>pres is notionally Commander-in-Chief he or she does not have command over any
>part of the US military.
>

I've just had a good giggle, I didn't know much about General Washington other
than he he established the Sepponian political principle that you can go around
doing nasty stuff as long as you don't lie about it.

Washington received the King's Commission in 1754 as a colonel. So after his
colony was defended by the King's army from the French and Indians, this guy who
couldn't tell a lie was quite happy to recant his oath of allegience, commit
treason, take on a fictious rank of general, and lead an army against his king,
just to get out of paying tax (at a much lower rate than in the UK). He also
married a rich heiress.

In 1781 he commands French troops, his former enemy.

In 1791 the government imposes a tax on whisky, causing a revolution which
President Washington puts down. So it was OK for him to raise taxes but not his
King?

And this guy is proudly on US currency?


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