Bush "Envious" That He Can't Take Part in "Romantic" War.

There are times when Bush's hypocrisy simply goes off the scales and this is certainly one of those times. He's in a video conference listening to U.S. military and civilian personnel talk about the challenges they face, which include fighting local government and police corruption and persuading farmers to stop producing opium poppies.

And then Bush comes out with this:

"I must say, I'm a little envious," Bush said. "If I were slightly younger and not employed here, I think it would be a fantastic experience to be on the front lines of helping this young democracy succeed."

"It must be exciting for you ... in some ways romantic, in some ways, you know, confronting danger. You're really making history, and thanks," Bush said.

Lets ignore the fact that he's turning the dangerous work they do into some "romantic" adventure that age and his position sadly exclude him from, which is insulting enough; but most of us remember that when he had the opportunity to serve on the front lines in the Vietnam war that he used his fathers influence to make sure that he went nowhere near the bloody place and, instead, bravely defended the skies of Texas from imminent invasion.

Nor did he manage to find the time to even complete that arduous task.

In February, when the White House made public hundreds of pages of President Bush's military records, White House officials repeatedly insisted that the records prove that Bush fulfilled his military commitment in the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam War.

But Bush fell well short of meeting his military obligation, a Globe reexamination of the records shows: Twice during his Guard service -- first when he joined in May 1968, and again before he transferred out of his unit in mid-1973 to attend Harvard Business School -- Bush signed documents pledging to meet training commitments or face a punitive call-up to active duty.

He didn't meet the commitments, or face the punishment, the records show. The 1973 document has been overlooked in news media accounts. The 1968 document has received scant notice.

So it really is simply too much to listen to this man now tell us how he would love to fight on the front line when he spent his entire youth actively avoiding doing anything of the kind.

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