Hail the deserter-in-chief

[babylonsister]

http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/ian_williams/2007/04/hail_the_deserter_inchief.html

Hail the deserter-in-chief

Desertions are rising in the US army - and so are prosecutions. Maybe George Bush should be reminded about his own personal exit strategy.
Ian Williams



A working definition of chutzpah: a Bush administration prosecuting deserters.

Bill Clinton spent two terms of his presidency on the defensive because he had, in typical Clintonian fashion, prevaricated between his ethics and his political future on whether or not to register for the draft during Vietnam. In the end, he registered but was not called up.

It is interesting that people like the newly recess-appointed US Ambassador to Belgium, Sam Fox, spent so much time and money examining the military careers of people like Kerry, but are so uninterested in the eloquent lack of a military career for George Bush. But he won his ambassadorship the same way that Bush won his exemption - with cash and connections.

Back in the day, during the Vietnam war that he supported, young George Bush, "Googen" to his family, abused his family ties to join the Texas Air National Guard, which in those halcyon days guaranteed a free pass from the draft and deployment to Indo-China. He had to do that because President Lyndon Baines Johnson had abolished the graduate student deferment that so many other members of the Bush cabinet had already abused.

Towards the end of his five-year term, young W went missing, and failed to turn up for the occasional duties demanded. The technical term for someone absent without leave for such an extended period is desertion. But Texans are great believers in redemption - at least for sons of important political families - and the local establishment covered up his desertion.

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[Bobbieo]

1. Will we ever be able to get rid of this misfit?

Is there actually a light at the end of the tunnel? No matter how bad things get for him, he always manages to get his way.

[acmavm]

2. That entire family has abused this country as much, if not more, than

any other family in our history.

Poopy's daddy was a traitor of immense proportions, Poopy has used and abused our government and its intelligence services like they were a family fiefdom, the taxpayers have been made to pay for all three of Poopy's son's banktupt financial enterprises, and now we have an AWOL dry drunk frat boy with a low I.Q. and no decency or integrity running everything we've worked for, everything we value, into the ground.

Paraguay is welcome to 'em. The sooner the damn better.

[Bobbieo]

3. Has the Iraq War ever been anything more than an "oil grab"

to further enrich the Bush family? Don't forget Cheney!