Yeah...you're nodding your heads out there. You know it. We know it. EVERYONE knows it. They play dirty politics in Texas because Bush's rightwing-hand man wrote the bible on Texas dirty politics.LINK - The first memo is a direct order to take "an annual physical examination" - a requirement for all pilots.
On August 1, 1972, Col. Killian grounded Lt. Bush for failure to perform to U.S. Air Force/Texas Air National Guard standards and for failure to take his annual physical as ordered.
A year after Lt. Bush's suspension from flying, Killian was asked to write another assessment.
Killian's memo, titled 'CYA' reads he is being pressured by higher-ups to give the young pilot a favorable yearly evaluation; to, in effect, sugarcoat his review. He refuses, saying, "I'm having trouble running interference and doing my job."
Thirty-one years later, supporters of now-President Bush have been critical of opponent John Kerry's Vietnam record. Now it's the president's turn to answer tough questions about his own service.
It was just what the White House had hoped to avoid - a new examination of the president's military record just as he seeks to reinforce his credentials as a wartime leader. And Republican officials wasted no time taking dead aim at Ben Barnes' claim that he pulled strings to get George W. Bush into the National Guard, reports CBS News Chief White House Correspondent John Roberts.
"I chalk it up to politics," said White House Communications Director Dan Bartlett. "They play dirty down in Texas. I've been there. I see how it works. But the bottom line is that there is no truth to this."
Asked if this is dirty politics, Bartlett replied, "Oh, I think it is."
Well, if these jackasses wish to call the U.S. Military and those whose job it was to oversee the service of Airman George Walker Bush "dirty politics," then I think we know what these creeps really think of the U.S. Armed Forces.
Disgraceful.
