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Originally Posted by Botnst
You share a certain history with Limbaugh.
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That's where you're dead wrong, me bucko. Limbaugh cheered the troops on from his "hospital bed," similar to Cheney and many other hawkish war boosters. My POV was to stop the damn thing now, and so I boycotted it. False modesty aside, my SAT type scores in math and sciences were what you call high and I had it on good authority that such testing acumen would net one a high tech track usually far removed from combat type danger.
And this talk of Bush's legitimate service, how can you guys say that with a straight face? He was trained to fly while in the Guard, highly unusual I understand -- at a taxpayer cost of around $1 mil, then got practice posing in a flight suit, practice that came in handy later, and then went AWOL, for all practical purposes.
Usually you learn to fly in the Air Force, do a tour, and they fly in the Guard, at least if I can believe actual Air Force pilots who have said such.
I did not scam my way out of the draft, I stood up and did it legally, and then I served my country and I'll take that service over Calley's, North's, etc.