Unfit Commander: Texans for Truth Take on George W. Bush

Author - Glenn W. Smith ... [Goo?] [Posters]

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1) Hardcover Book Unfit Commander: Texans for Truth Take on George W. Bush by ReganBooks. Objectively read the records and the facts show a person with a high level of achievement: a degree from Yale and several years of military service, often with exceptional marks. The writer shows a lot of bias.¤

2) Hardcover Book Unfit Commander: Texans for Truth Take on George W. Bush by ReganBooks. i don´t like bush at all, and i don´t like the way he makes texans look; even though he isn´t really a texan, he was born in conneticut. do yourself a favor, and buy this book.¤

3) Hardcover Book Unfit Commander: Texans for Truth Take on George W. Bush by ReganBooks. As a Texan, I´ve taken a lot of good-natured ribbing from activist friends around the world.

They have told me that the best way to save the country would be to send Bush back to Texas. Because it ultimately implies that I and other Texans unanimously had supported Bush, this statement is a gross generalization. We actually had more reason to oppose his ascension than people from other states.

Plus, already knowing what Bush would do to America and the world if he (unlike the figurehead Texas Governor position) actually had power, provided all the incentive which I needed to vote against him in 2000 and 2004.

I and other alert Texans COULD NOT reside under the illusion that George W. Bush was somehow ´moderate´. We also knew that it did matter who actually won the presidential elections.

Mounting casualties in Iraq coupled with a skyrocketing federal deficit are affirming just how bad a Bush administration really is for the world. Amidst a growing number of ´Bush´ supporter head-scratching and (actually) genuine bewilderment, we say "I told you so".

Continuing a pattern begun in early adulthood (to escape the Vietnam War he allegedly supported) Bush is a good-ole boy who depends on his family name and the monetary connections to avoid the situations which other Texans had to deal with.

Borrowing an `image´ page from Ronald Reagan and his father´s playbook, Bush intentionally cultivates an image of the ´rugged cowboy´ who has made it on his own without any assistance.

In addition to downplaying the importance of government, the `cowboy´ also is supposed to suggest that the president is a John-Wayne figure who will of course be able to protect the country against whatever is considered a threat.

Yet, the truth is that Bush is a naive and sheltered person who has never had to take responsibility for his actions.

This is why the Bush administration honestly is not bothered that they have lied to the American people, or are slaughtering American troops (who already face enough danger) with that same fabricated evidence about Iraq WMD´s. As long as somebody else can go to war in their place, these people sincerely do not see a contradiction in their own actions.

Even if I have personally read the general gist of this book elsewhere, I was pleased to see it again. The truth always bears repeating.

The American people (and those in Texas) want to easily be comforted by ´security´ images. Constant repetition of the real facts may thus be the very tool which encourages these swing voters to stop voting for the GOP---and/or recognize they are not the only Texans who hate Bush´s war against the world. There are far more of us out here than the so-called liberal mass media has recognized.

Don´t send Bush back to Texas, lock him up far, far away where he will never be able to hurt anybody again.
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4) Hardcover Book Unfit Commander: Texans for Truth Take on George W. Bush by ReganBooks. Mr. Tom Shepherd of El Monte,CA should remember that Mr. Clinton lied about sex. This is hardly up there with lying about war and peace or phony-baloney drug benefits for seniors. As the bumper sticker says, "When Clinton lied, nobody died."¤

5) Hardcover Book Unfit Commander: Texans for Truth Take on George W. Bush by ReganBooks. Enlightening, well-organized book concerning George W´s (lack of) service in the National Guard. Documention included to prove that George W. did whatever he wanted to do, and was allowed to get away with it. And then this shirker was elected president! There are those who just refuse to see the truth right in front of them.¤

6) Hardcover Book Unfit Commander: Texans for Truth Take on George W. Bush by ReganBooks. Ever since George W. Bush began running for public office in the 1990s, questions have been raised in the public eye about his service in the Air National Guard during the late 1960s and early 1970s -- when countless American soldiers (John Kerry among them) were serving heroically in Vietnam. By the time of the presidential race in 2000, it was clear that Bush´s record of service contained several troubling gaps -- especially in the pe-riod between May 1972 and May 1973, when Bush was supposed to have transferred to the Alabama Air Na-tional Guard. In early 2004, as the election season heated up, the White House bowed to pressure and released a host of documents related to Bush´s service, promising that this disclosure would put the matter to rest. Yet the documents raised as many new questions as they answered. Now, for the first time, the comprehensive written record of George W. Bush´s military career -- more than 250 pages in all -- is presented in book form. In his introduction and commentary, longtime activist and author Glenn W. Smith, the founder of Texans for Truth, highlights such questions as: * How did Bush secure his acceptance into the National Guard, despite a long waiting list? Did his father pull strings, as some have alleged, to help him avoid the draft? * Why did Bush suddenly stop performing his Guard service from mid-1972 to mid-1973, as the documents show? * Did Bush truly perform sufficient duties to qualify for the honorable discharge he received, or was he given special consideration? * In the summer of 1972, Bush failed to appear for his required physical, and was consequently suspended from flying. Why didn´t he take the physical? And why has he claimed that he kept flying for the Guard? * If Bush was present at the National Guard base in Montgomery, Alabama, during the disputed period, why has no one accepted the White House´s pleas to step forward and confirm that he was there? * And how do the now-discredited "Killian documents," first aired on 60 Minutes in September 2004, affect our understanding of Bush´s Guard status?

UNFIT COMMANDER also tracks the Bush administration´s efforts to defuse the controversy, from Bush´s own claim that he "put in his time," to the White House´s record of unyielding non-denial denials despite the persistent questioning of the press. And at the heart of the book are the documents themselves: from Bush´s agreement that "failure to satisfactorily complete [full] pilot training will result in my being discharged," to his supervisor´s statement that "Lt Bush has not been observed at this unit" during the critical period. A provocative exploration of this commander in chief´s spotty record of personal military service, UNFIT COMMANDER is the place to start for anyone interested in getting at the truths of President Bush´s character.¤

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