On 21 Aug 2004 08:59:12 -0700, Brett Robson <jet_boy@deja.com> brought
down from the Mount tablets inscribed:


>>http://tinyurl.com/4bxoh
>
>"A total of 14 or 15 F-102 fighters were lost in Vietnam. Three were shot down
>by anti-aircraft or small arms fire, one is believed to have been lost in
>air-to-air combat with a MiG-21, four were destroyed on the ground during Viet
>Cong attacks, and the remainder succumbed to training accidents"
>
>So that is 4 lost to combat. F-4 760 lost, F-100 242, F-105 397.
>
>"Nevertheless, we have established that the F-102 was serving in combat in
>Vietnam at the time Bush enlisted to become an F-102 pilot."
>
>In regular USAAF units.

You missed the part about pilots from Bush's unit rotating there?
 
>
>"...routinely rotated to Vietnam for combat duty under a **volunteer**
>program..."

For which he tried to volunteer.

>"...unable to activate ANG units since Presidents Johnson and Nixon had decided
>not to..."

You missed the part about pilots from Bush's unit rotating there?

More importantly, and far more sinister, is how Bush came by the
inside dope in 1968 that the fix was in for Nixon (a RICH REPUBLICAN!,
don't forget) to have everything wound up and pulled out BEFORE Bush
got enough flying hours to be able to rotate through.

Everybody blames the military loss in Vietnam on Democrats, when from
the evidence I have presented it is clear that it was ALL engineered
by RICH REPUBLICANS specifically to keep GW Bush from ever having to
go!






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Michael Cash

"I am sorry, Mr. Cash, but we are unable to accept your rap sheet in lieu of
a high school transcript."

                                Dr. Howard Sprague
                                Dean of Admissions
                                Mount Pilot College