February 19, 2004

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AWOL Bush fled as Vietnam air combat escalated
"Many are saying the Vietnam war was winding down in 1972 and Bush simply lost interest. But the air war heated up just days before Bush vanished from the radar. On April 10, 1972 Richard Nixon began the largest air strikes against North Vietnam, the first since 1968.

"'The bastards have never been bombed like they're going to be bombed this time,' Nixon privately declares. Heavy B-52 bombardments of Hanoi and Haiphong harbor, 145 miles deep into North Vietnam territory, prompt the heaviest protesting at home by April 15... AP reported 11 American planes had been downed in the first raid on Haiphong. A United States communique on April 15 said that four American aircraft, were downed in raids around Haiphong. The Hanoi government claimed 15 planes were shot down. Pictures of captured US fighter pilots appeared on the front pages. George W. Bush's last paid day in the Texas Air National Guard was the very next day, April 16, 1972." - - Todd Smyth (via democrats.com).

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"I am George Bush. You tried to kill my father. Prepare to die."
The Fraudulent F*ckup's fractured fairy-tale

"Is this really a President who turned centuries of international law on its head, who misled Americans with justifications for invasion that have turned out to be spectacularly false, sent other sons and daughters into a war that continues to kill one or two of them every day, has concocted half-baked plans for rebuilding a land torn asunder, and plunged the U.S. budget into an ocean of red ink so he could figuratively stare into Saddam's eyes and say, 'You tried to kill my father. Prepare to die.'" - - Business Week.

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