by James Glaser
September 9, 2004

Unfortunately for me my daddy was neither, but George Bush's dad was. I signed on the dotted line for the Marine Corps and even though I didn't like what was happening to me in Vietnam, I did my time, because I took an oath and I had "Balls."

George Bush took an oath too. Not for the Marine Corps, but the Texas National Guard. George Bush didn't even have the balls to do what he swore to do here in the States. Now he has thousands of young American men and women dying and getting maimed in his war.

George didn't have the guts to even finish his enlistment, but he can ask others to sacrifice everything they have for him. Some people claim that our troops are fighting terrorism, but I don't buy that. Our troops are fighting people who are trying to kick us out of their country. Once again, American troops are fighting to protect a puppet government which we installed in a foreign land and again we are talking about democracy and freedom. People the world over know that Bush's war in Iraq is another American scam to get something. Here it is oil.

Today another batch of Bush's Military Records has come to light and Retired Army Colonel Gerald A. Lechliter has written about George Bush in the Boston Globe. "He broke his contract with the United States Government—without any adverse consequences. And the Texas Air National Guard was complicit in allowing this to happen. He was a pilot. It cost the government a million dollars to train him to fly. So he should have been held to an even higher standard."

In 1973, Bush signed a document that declared, "It is my responsibility to locate and be assigned to another Reserve forces unit or mobilization augmentation position. If I fail to do so, I am subject to involuntary order to active duty for up to 24 months...." Under National Guard regulations, Bush had 60 days to locate a new unit. George was headed to school and was moving from Texas to Cambridge, Mass.

George Bush never did sign up, but his dad was rich and powerful, so he didn't have to In 1999, his spokesman, Dan Bartlett told the Washington Post that Bush finished his six year commitment at a Boston area Air Force Reserve unit after he left Houston. Of course that was a lie, but it wasn't Bush's lie, it was his spokesman's lie. Now Bartlett concedes, "I must have misspoke." For his lying, Bartlett was given the position of White House communications director and is there now. Lie for the rich and powerful and you will get rewarded. Have now power or money and you will have to follow the rules.