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   From: FranzKafka@Oceania.WhiteHouse.GOV   
      
   "David Hartung"  wrote in inimitable style:   
      
   >   
   > "Winston Smith, American Patriot"    
   > wrote in message news:Xns949059154A124WSAP1962@64.164.98.51...   
   >> "F.U."  wrote in inimitable style:   
   >>   
   >> >     While American Forces were withdrawing from Vietnam in early   
   >> >     1972, why   
   >> > on earth would a reserve unit be activated to go there?   
   >>   
   >> Your question is typical subterfuge.   
   >>   
   >> You first need to explain why Bush made use of his family connections   
   >> (his granddaddy a U.S. senator, his daddy a Congressman) to get into   
   >> the Guard in the first place.   
   >   
   > Do you have any evidence that Bush used family connections?   
      
   It's already been stated that Bush got into the Guard whereas uncountable   
   numbers of men were on waiting lists to do the same.  (Getting into the   
   Guard was a 99% guarantee that you would not go to Vietnam.)  You thus   
   have to explain why Bush could possibly have been given this preference.   
      
   Then you need go no further than to know that Bush was the son of a   
   Congressman and grandson of a Senator.   
      
   To insist petulantly that this is not evidence is to make plain one's   
   inability to think sanely.   
      
      
      
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   The world is too dangerous to live in---not because of the people   
   who do evil, but because of the people who sit and let it happen."   
      
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