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The gentleman in question was a Colonel in the Army and a prisoner of war in Viet Nam. He quit his activities as a Bush volunteer to avoid conflict with our campaign finance laws.

Do you have some point to make concerning Col. Ken Cordier's integrity?

Matt, I think you're wasting your time with this guy. He does not know enough facts to create a serious debate, and he's obviously basing his points of view on rumor rather than fact based current event reports.

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Nah, just poking unhinged folks with a sharp stick to see them froth at the mouth.

Oh, Trolling. I get it.

He was campaigning for senate at that time, with permission to make up the time in the next quarter...old news...

No, you are wrong. Its true that Bush was participating in a Senate campaign in Alabama, but he was not given permission to make up the time. He requested a transfer to a unit in Alabama:

You are also correct that this is old news. Just as it is old news that Bush had his flying privileges revoked for failing to show up for a physical. It is also old news that he lied in his autobiography when he wrote that he flew with his unit for "several years" when he actually only flew for 22 months. None of this is new, which is why I am surprised that people like Bill Hughes refuse to believe it.

"It is also old news that he lied in his autobiography when he wrote that he flew with his unit for "several years" when he actually only flew for 22 months."

You are nit-pick> >

It was someone in Bush's adminstration, most likely an assistant to Cheney. But of course the White House won't give them up.

Bill, I'm currently reading the 9/11 commission report, what would you like to know?

Patrick J. Fitzgerald, the United States attorney in Chicago who was appointed special prosecutor investigating this case, and the Washington DC grand jury don't seem to think so.

Nah, it doesn't place blame squarely on his shoulders, any more than it was Clinton's or Bush Sr's or Reagan's fault. It actually goes into a very detailed account the attacks themselves, the government's immediate response, the history behind UBL, Al Qaida, and the hijacker. That's about as far as I am now.

It does say that when the second WTC tower was hit, GWB waited 5-7 minutes before taking any action at all. He told the commission that he "felt he should project strength and calm until he could better understand what was happening."

Read into that what you will.

By the way, that's on page 38 of the report, last full paragraph.

I'm a bleeding heart liberal, because Bill Hughes said so