“I was not prepared to shoot my eardrum out with a shotgun in order to get a deferment. Nor was I willing to go to Canada. So I chose to better myself by learning how to fly airplanes.” – George Bush, 1990

Now, say what you will about whether you think Bush got into the Texas Air National Guard by having his family pull strings. That’s really tangential to the point here. Bush touts his TANG service as essentially equivalent to Kerry’s Vietnam service, and says basically that he volunteered, but they weren’t accepting pilots of his type of aircraft, or some other crap. But look at that quote. Read it. He says he wasn’t willing to shoot out his eardrum. He wasn’t willing to move to Canada. So, instead, he went to the TANG. Does this sound like he was willing to go to Vietnam, and TANG was how he could go? No. It sounds like he absolutely did not want to go, nor was he willing to go. But unable to mutilate himself willingly, or unwilling to even move to Canada, he ended up at the Air National Guard. I’m not saying I would want to go to war – you’re damn well sure I don’t, and I’d move to Canada in a heartbeat if I was ever drafted. Hell, I’d move if a draft was even instituted, much less if I was personally drafted. But the point is that Bush touts this as honorable service, of similar quality to Kerry going to Vietnam.

Read the quote again, and tell me if you think that’s so.

Every day George W. Bush is President is a day that could be better.

If it were up to me, I’d throw the bum out of the White House with my bare hands, and dump him in the middle of Iraq with a can of Coke and a pointy stick. Hell, if he’s too scared to go before a committee without Cheney, I’ll even give him Cheney, as well. Maybe give Cheney a pointy stick, too. But they’ll have to share the can of Coke. I wonder how long they’d last? Maybe they’d be smart about it, and poke each other to death before the Iraqis realize who they are. I kinda doubt it, though. Cheney might be smart enough to realize what would happen, but I suspect Bush still thinks he’d be greeted as a hero.