[GCFL-discuss] jsiarlys: A Vietnam Vet says...

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Unlike some imaginative ravings that have been making the rounds in cyber
space, the following was sent to me by a real live person, who I have met
personally, corresponded with for several years, and we have a few
friends in common, scattered through at least five different states. So
this has at least the credibility that it comes from the person who
describes himself, accurately, in the opening sentence.

(I believe the Resume that follows is something he appended, and may not
be original, but it certainly is accurate).

Siarlys

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As a Vietnam War Vet, I agree. All those "too busy to go to Vietnam"
guys, Rumsfeld, Wolffowitz, Chaney are the first to send men and women
in harms way, but then cut the VA benefits each year. It started with
Reagan and continues now. They should be ashamed. I suppose we'll have a
book from them 10 years from now, like McNamara's,saying how sorry they
are. No I suppose we won't ever hear that from this crowd.

While we do the fighting and dying, they clean up the war profits and
wage war on the poor for benefit of themselves and their supporters. I'd
like to see one of them have their children in the military. It would be
different then. Keep the poor out of college so we can use them to
protect our pocketbooks is their motto.

RESUME

> >GEORGE W. BUSH
> >
> >1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
> >
> >Washington, DC 20520
> >
> >EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
> >
> >Law Enforcement:
> >
> >=D8      I was arrested in Kennebunkport, Maine, in 1976 for driving
under the influence of alcohol. I pled guilty, paid a fine, and had my
driver's license suspended for 30 days. My Texas driving record has been
"lost" and is not available.
> >
> >Military:
> >
> >=D8      I joined the Texas Air National Guard and went AWOL. I =
refused to take a drug test or answer any questions about my drug use. By
joining the Texas Air National Guard, I was able to avoid combat duty in
Vietnam.
> >
> >  College:
> >
> >=D8 I graduated from Yale University with a low C average. I was a
> >cheerleader.
> >
> >Past Work Experience:
> >
> >=D8      I ran for U.S. Congress and lost. I began my career in the =
oil business in Midland, Texas, in 1975. I bought an oil company, but
couldn't find any oil in Texas. The company went bankrupt shortly after I
sold
all my stock. I bought the Texas Rangers baseball team in a sweetheart
deal that took land using taxpayer money. With the help of my father and
our friends in the oil industry (including Enron CEO Ken Lay), I was
elected
governor of Texas.
> >
> >ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS GOVERNOR OF TEXAS:
> >
> >     - I changed Texas pollution laws to favor power and oil
companies, making Texas the most polluted state in the Union. During my
tenure,
> >Houston replaced Los Angeles as the most smog-ridden city in America.
> >
> >           - I cut taxes and bankrupted the Texas treasury to the
tune of billions in borrowed money.
> >
> >     -       I set the record for the most executions by any governor
in American history.
> >
> >     - With the help of my brother, the governor of Florida, and my
> >father's appointments to the Supreme Court, I became President after
losing by over 500,000 votes.
> >
> >ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS PRESIDENT:
> >
> >     - I am the first President in U.S. history to enter office with
a criminal record.
> >
> >     - I invaded and occupied two countries at a continuing cost of
over one billion dollars per week.
> >
> >     - I spent the U.S. surplus and effectively bankrupted the U.S.
> >Treasury.
> >
> >     - I shattered the record for the largest annual deficit in U.S.
> >history.
> >
> >     - I set an economic record for most private bankruptcies filed
in any 12-month period.
> >
> >     - I set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12-month
> >period.  I set the all-time record for the biggest drop in the history
of the U.S. stock market. In my first year in office, over 2 million
Americans lost their jobs and that trend continues every month.
> >
> >     - I'm proud that the members of my cabinet are the richest of
any administration in U.S. history. My "poorest millionaire," Condoleeza
Rice, has a Chevron oil tanker named after her.
> >
> >     - I set the record for most campaign fund-raising trips by a
U.S. President.
> >
> >     - I am the all-time U.S. and world record-holder for receiving
the most corporate campaign donations.
> >
> >     - My largest lifetime campaign contributor, and one of my best
> >friends, Kenneth Lay, presided over the largest corporate bankruptcy
fraud in U.S. History, Enron.
> >
> >     - My political party used Enron private jets and corporate
attorneys to assure my success with the U.S. Supreme Court during my
election
> >decision.
> >
> >     - I have protected my friends at Enron and Halliburton against
> >investigation or prosecution. More time and money was spent
investigating the Monica Lewinsky affair than has been spent
investigating one of
the biggest corporate rip-offs in history. I presided over the biggest
energy crisis in U.S. history and refused to intervene when corruption
involving the oil industry was revealed.
> >
> >     - I presided over the highest gasoline prices in U.S. history.
> >
> >     - I changed the U.S. policy to allow convicted criminals to be
awarded government contracts.
> >
> >     - I appointed more convicted criminals to administration than
any President in U.S. history.
> >
> >     - I created the Ministry of Homeland Security, the largest
bureaucracy in the history of the United States government
> >
> >     - I've broken more international treaties than any President in
U.S. history.
> >
> >     - I am the first President in U.S. history to have the United
> >
> >Nations remove the U.S. from the Human Rights Commission.
> >
> >     - I withdrew the U.S. from the World Court of Law.
> >
> >     - I refused to allow inspector's access to U.S. "prisoners of
war" detainees and thereby have refused to abide by the Geneva
Convention.
> >
> >     - I am the first President in history to refuse United Nations
> >election inspectors (during the 2002 U.S. election).
> >
> >     - I set the record for fewest numbers of press conferences of
any President since the advent of television.
> >
> >     - I set the all-time record for most days on vacation in any
one-year period. After taking off the entire month of August, I presided
over
the worst security failure in U.S. history.
> >
> >     - I garnered the most sympathy ever for the U.S. after the World
Trade Center attacks and less than a year later made the U.S. the most
hated country in the world, the largest failure of diplomacy in world
history.
> >
> >     - I have set the all-time record for most people worldwide to
> >simultaneously protest me in public venues (15 million people),
shattering the record for protests against any person in the history of
mankind.
> >
> >     - I am the first President in U.S. history to order an
unprovoked, pre-emptive attack and the military occupation of a sovereign
nation.
I did so against the will of the United Nations, the majority of U.S.
citizens, and the world community.
> >
> >     - I have cut health care benefits for war veterans and support a
cut in duty benefits for active duty troops and their families in
wartime.
> >
> >     - In my State of the Union Address, I lied about our reasons for
> >attacking Iraq and then blamed the lies on our British friends.
> >
> >     - I am the first President in history to have a majority of
Europeans (71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat to world peace
and
security.
> >
> >     - I am supporting development of a nuclear "Tactical Bunker
Buster," a WMD.
> >
> >     - I have so far failed to fulfill my pledge to bring Osama Bin
Laden to justice.
> >
> >RECORDS AND REFERENCES:
> >
> >     -All records of my tenure as governor of Texas are now in my
father's library, sealed and unavailable for public view.
> >
> >     - All records of SEC investigations into my insider trading and
my bankrupt companies are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public
view.
> >
> >     - All records or minutes from meetings that I, or my
Vice-President, attended regarding public energy policy are sealed in
secrecy and unavailable for public review.
> >
> >PLEASE CONSIDER MY EXPERIENCE WHEN VOTING IN 2004!
> >
> >PLEASE SEND THIS TO EVERY VOTER YOU KNOW!
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