Reply #48: The Democrats didn't start this bs.

[sarge43]

Remember the bottom feeder wearing the Purple Heart band aid at the '04 Repug convention?

Honorable discharges are the default. Unless there's significant official disciplinary action on record, the honorable is the only option. I can assure you having an honorable is no guarantee a vet didn't royally fuck up at some point during his/her time.

Bush has an honorable discharge. He disobeyed a legal order by dodging his flight physical. Following the dodge no legal or administrative action was taken. The real AF would have dropped the UCMJ on a pilot's head for that trick or had him serving as morale officer at Wake Island or Thule. They're legit questions why he did it and how he got away with it; ones that still haven't been answered.

Minor point, but Bush was stealing from the American tax payers early on. From the moment he was bounced off flight status, he was unqualified in any specialty for the remainder of his 'service'.
So an honorable in itself does not indicate a squeaky clean record.

I agree with the other posters that the questions must be legitimate; however, having an honorable discharge is not a shield. McCain is touting his service as qualification for the presidency. So, his service is open to examination.

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