[Vision2020] More on Bush's Guard Duty

[Nick Gier]

Greetings:

Some of you may have seen Bob Fogarty's letter to the Lewiston Morning 
Tribune responding to an earlier one of mine on Bush's guard duty.  Since 
it takes a while for Jim Fisher to print letters, I thought I would post it 
here.

I would like to thank Bob Fogarty for correcting my error regarding F-102s 
in Vietnam.  I should have trusted my memory rather than The New Republic. 
I thought I remembered that these jets were flown out of Thai bases.

If it is true that it was "points" rather than days served was the 
criterion for Bush fulfilling his guard duty, it is then puzzling why the 
White House kept defending his service in terms of drills attended.

After 1972 Bush could not have flown any plane because he did not show up 
for his physical.  A careful analysis at www. glcq.com/pti 961.htm 
demonstrates that Bush should not have received an honorable discharge for 
this egregious failure and affront to the taxpayers who paid for his 
expensive training.

Perhaps Fogarty missed the news reports that showed that there was nothing 
irregular about Kerry's medal awards.  To call them "phony" is to cast 
aspersions on millions of other US soldiers who sacrificed for their medals.

The man whom Kerry saved after pointing his boat into enemy fire is now 
alive to testify as to Kerry's courage. I also admire his courage in 
protesting an unjust war.

Fogarty says nothing about Bush's claim that he showed up for duty in 
Alabama. Where are the men in Alabama who can assure us that Bush was not 
AWOL?  For me the character issue is easily solved in Kerry's favor.

Nick Gier, Moscow
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