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Wednesday, September 8, 2004 |
Rhino sez, "SEND THIS ENTIRE WEBLOG ENTRY TO A REPUBLICAN!"
FEATURED ARTICLES
- Bush Ranked 22 Of 53 Pilots, AP
- TV TIP: TONIGHT! 60 Minutes Looks At W. Bush's Military Records
- Read 'George Dub-ya Bush, the Phony Fighter Pilot', phonyfighterpilot.com
- What If George Bush Had Kerry's Record, & John Kerry Had Bush's?, Buzzflash
- RHINOS BOTTOM LINE: Bush by Numbers, lndependent/UK
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"Wealth is too important to be left to limousine liberals."
- - Karl Rove, 9/1/04
(Speaking to state chairmen of College Republican National Committee, Windfall Bar & Grill, Manhattan)
KNOW YOUR HISTORY - September 8th
1883 -- Hunkpapa Sioux Chief Sitting Bull (Tatanka Iyotake), spoke at the celebration of the driving of the last spike in the Northern Pacific railroad joining with the transcontinental system. He delivered the speech in his Sioux language, departing from a speech original prepared with an army translator. Denouncing the US government, settlers & army, the listeners thought he was delivering a speech of welcome & praise. While giving the speech Sitting Bull paused for applause periodically, bowed, smiled & continued insulting & making asses of the audience & US authorities as the translator delivered the original address.
1955 -- The USA, Australia, France, Great Britain, New Zealand, the Philippines, Pakistan, & Thailand signed the mutual defense treaty that established the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO), to stop communist spread in Korea & Indochina (Vietnam, Cambodia & Laos).
1972 -- Arab terrorists killed 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics.
1978 -- In Iran 95 people died in anti-Shah demonstrations. The Iranian army shot on Khomeini followers in Teheran, 100s were killed.
RHINO HERE:
Ever heard the saying, "The best defense is a good offense." ?
How 'bout the military strategy, "Attack first on your weakest front." ?
Karl Rove is,besides all those other things he is, a strategist.
Upon seeing the political potential of John Kerry's record as a 2 tour of duty soldier to appeal to American military veterans, combined with his anti-war leadership of Viet Nam Vets Against The War appealing to the millions who marched in the streets, Rove knew his incumbent candidate's history was worse than inferior, it was scandalous. What to do? Attack first on your weakest fronts.
- Attack Kerry's on the soldier front: A phoney hero! Lied to get his medals!
- Attack Kerry's on the anti-war front: Lied about alleged atrocities! Worse! Assisted the enemy! Traitor!
Yeah... That's the ticket!
Meanwhile, get rid of any & all records revealing dubya's record of ducking active duty (with the help of Daddy's connections), having tens of thousands of US taxpayer dollars spent to train him to fly fighter jets, & then skipping out on using those skills for the country's good. Apparently Rove's operatives (never forget Valarie Plame & Robert Novak) missed a few of those sensitive (embarrassing) documents.
Bush Ranked 22 Of 53 Pilots
(AP) WASHINGTON, Sept. 7, 2004
President Bush was ranked in the middle of his Air National Guard class and flew more than 336 hours in a fighter jet before letting his pilot status lapse and missing a key readiness drill, according to his flight records belatedly uncovered Tuesday under the Freedom of Information Act. The Pentagon and Bush's campaign have claimed for months that all records detailing his fighter pilot career have been made public, but defense officials said they found two dozen new records detailing his training and flight logs after The Associated Press filed a lawsuit and crafted new requests under the public records law.
TV TIP: TONIGHT (Wednesday) on (CBS, 8:00-9:00 p.m., ET/PT)
60 Minutes Looks At W. Bush's Military Records
Correspondent Dan Rather talked exclusively to former Texas House speaker and Lt. Governor Ben Barnes, about the role Barnes says he played in getting President George W. Bush into the Texas Air National Guard. Also features newly released Freedom of Information Act documents.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/09/06/politics/main641481.shtml?CMP=ILC-SearchStories
Read 'George Dub-ya Bush, the Phony Fighter Pilot'
"In 'George Dub-ya Bush, the Phony Fighter Pilot,' Hugh E. Scott, Vietnam veteran, ex-Air Force pilot and registered Republican, tells how he found an official Bush biography on the Internet that claimed the president flew National Guard jets almost six years... Scott is the only investigative journalist since 1988 to interview Chester Mierzejewski, 83 - honorable and highly decorated Avenger tail gunner who saw Big George bail out and blew the whistle on him before the presidential election... Scott uses USAF documents, newspaper archives, Bush family autobiographies and authorized bios to show that George W. received a commission during the Vietnam War without any officer training, grounded himself by failing to take his annual flight physical, went AWOL in Alabama to work for the GOP, boozed until age 40 instead of preparing for national leadership, lied about his missing Guard service to get elected and tried to ruin the reputation of primary opponent, Senator John McCain."
READ THE ENTIRE BOOK AT: http://www.phonyfighterpilot.com
"SEND THIS TO A REPUBLICAN!"
What If George Bush Had Kerry's Record, & John Kerry Had Bush's?:
Bill Irwin, Buzzflash, 9/3/04
Would you vote for Kerry if he had used his father's connections to avoid going to Vietnam?
Would you vote for Kerry if he went AWOL during his Military service?
Would you vote for Kerry if he received funding for his business ventures from the Bin Laden family?
Would you vote for Kerry if he knew, and had evidence, that Osama Bin Laden orchestrated the attack on the U.S.S. Cole, and he did nothing?
Would you vote for Kerry if when he was told that Bin Laden was determined to attack inside the United States, and he did nothing?
Would you vote for Kerry if when he was told, "Mr. President, Our country is under attack", then sat with a second grade reading class for another 7 minutes, and did nothing?
Would you vote for Kerry if he used too few troops in Afghanistan, allowing Taliban and al-Qaida to escape, and returned the country to regional warlords, and opium production?
Would you vote for Kerry if he took an annual 200 billion dollar surplus and turned it into a 450 billion dollar deficit?
Would you vote for Kerry if he decreased the taxes for all, but gave the richest the best deals?
Would you vote for Kerry if he let polluters free from cleaning up their mess (Superfund Law) and made taxpayers pay for the clean up?
Would you vote for Kerry if he allowed 3 times more mercury in the air?
Would you vote for Kerry if he allowed Power Plants to emit more soot, lead, mercury, and other contaminants?
Would you vote for Kerry if he attacked a Sovereign Nation using fabricated evidence for proof of weapon violations?
Would you vote for Kerry if he stood by and let surrogate groups attack his opponent's Military Service with untrue, and unproven, accusations?
Would you vote for Kerry if he called his opponent a "Flip Flopper", yet was one himself?
The list goes on, but the point is:
This is George Bush's record, not John Kerry's.
POSTED AT: http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/04/09/con04373.html
8:18:57 AM 
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Bush by Numbers: Four Years of Double Standards
by Graydon Carter, The lndependent/UK, September 3, 2004
(Extract from "What We've Lost", by Graydon Carter, published by Little Brown on 9 September)
George Bush: Military man
1972 Year that Bush walked away from his pilot duties in the Texas National Guard, Nearly two years before his six-year obligation was up.
$3,500 Reward a group of veterans offered in 2000 for anyone who could confirm Bush's Alabama guard service.
600-700 Number of guardsmen who were in Bush's unit during that period.
0 Number of guardsmen from that period who came forward with information about Bush's guard service.
0 Number of minutes that President Bush, Vice-President Dick Cheney, the Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, the assistant Defence Secretary, Paul Wolfowitz, the former chairman of the Defence Policy Board, Richard Perle, and the White House Chief of Staff, Karl Rove ˇ the main proponents of the war in Iraq ˇserved in combat (combined).
0 Number of principal civilian or Pentagon staff members who planned the war who have immediate family members serving in uniform in Iraq.
8 Number of members of the US Senate and House of Representatives who have a child serving in the military.
10 Number of days that the Pentagon spent investigating a soldier who had called the President "a joke" in a letter to the editor of a Newspaper.
46 Percentage increase in sales between 2001 and 2002 of GI Joe figures (children's toys).
Ambitious warrior
2 Number of Nations that George Bush has attacked and taken over since coming into office.
130 Approximate Number of countries (out of a total of 191 recognised by the United Nations) with a US military presence.
43 Percentage of the entire world's military spending that the US spends on defence. (That was in 2002, the year before the invasion of Iraq.)
$401.3bn Proposed military budget for 2004.
A soldier's best friend
40,000 Number of soldiers in Iraq seven months after start of the war still without Interceptor vests, designed to stop a round from an AK-47.
$60m Estimated cost of outfitting those 40,000 soldiers with Interceptor vests.
62 Percentage of gas masks that army investigators discovered did Not work properly in autumn 2002.
90 Percentage of detectors which give early warning of a biological weapons attack found to be defective.
87 Percentage of Humvees in Iraq not equipped with armour capable of stopping AK-47 rounds and protecting against roadside bombs and landmines at the end of 2003...
LOTS MORE AT: http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0903-04.htm
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