Our fly-boy pResident doesn't know planes

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This mistake was brought to my attention by a friend who happens to be an ex-Freeper. Not a Dem, yet, but pissed off enough to blow out the candles on his Ronald Regan memorial altar. Anyway, he listened to this speech live on Saturday and it nearly drove him nuts with rage. How can a war pResident be so clueless about history?

President Bush Attends United States Air Force Memorial Dedication

October 14, 2006

Quote:

"We saw the importance of air power six days ago -- six decades ago, after our nation was attacked at Pearl Harbor. Soon after the attack, General Hap Arnold called Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Doolittle into his office and gave him an unprecedented mission -- retaliate against Tokyo. Just over four months later, Doolittle's raiders had shocked the world by striking the enemy capital some 4,000 miles away from Pearl Harbor. To do it, they had to load B-52 bombers on the deck of an aircraft carrier, sail within a few hundred miles of enemy territory, take off and drop their payloads, knowing they had little chance to make it safely to China."

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/10/2006101...

Problems:

B-52 bombers did not exist then; they flew for the first time on April 15, 1952.

http://www.boeing.com/history/boeing/b52.html

Doolittle flew B-25 bombers

http://www.doolittleraider.com /

It wasn't six decades ago (1946), it was 64 years ago (1942).

Anybody with experience around planes would know the difference between a B-25



And a B-52



Our little fly-boy president does not know planes from a hole in the ground.