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Former President Bush (the first one) hospitalized in Houston.
Posted on 1/18/17 at 3:37 am
Posted on 1/18/17 at 3:37 am
Sorry, no link, it was just on the radio.
Posted on 1/18/17 at 3:49 am to Eurocat
Prayers sent.
How big of a fool will Trump make of himself at Bush I's funeral?
I mean, it's no secret they hated each other.
How big of a fool will Trump make of himself at Bush I's funeral?
I mean, it's no secret they hated each other.
This post was edited on 1/18/17 at 3:51 am
Posted on 1/18/17 at 4:41 am to Eurocat
A state funeral week of inauguration would be a logistical nightmare here in DC
Posted on 1/18/17 at 4:55 am to King Teal
I seriously doubt he makes a fool of himself.
But honestly idc If he pissed on his grave and cut a glory hole in his casket at the reception. frick the Bush family.
But honestly idc If he pissed on his grave and cut a glory hole in his casket at the reception. frick the Bush family.
Posted on 1/18/17 at 5:10 am to King Teal
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How big of a fool will Trump make of himself at Bush I's funeral?
If this is one of the first things he'll have to do as President, I think he will put his big boy pants on.
He'll do okay.
Posted on 1/18/17 at 5:54 am to Eurocat
This is one way to skip the inauguration.
Posted on 1/18/17 at 5:58 am to King Teal
This is the kind of mindless negative bullshlt that that comes to the mind of a liberal, after 8 years of King Joffrey in the White House. 2 days bitch
Posted on 1/18/17 at 6:05 am to SamGinn Cam
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A state funeral week of inauguration would be a logistical nightmare here in DC
Happened in 1973 when LBJ died after Nixon's second inaugural.
Posted on 1/18/17 at 6:44 am to russellvillehog
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But honestly idc If he pissed on his grave and cut a glory hole in his casket at the reception. frick the Bush family.
LINK
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Following the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Bush decided to join the US. Navy,[1] so after graduating from Phillips Academy in 1942, he became a naval aviator at the age of 18.[5] After completing the 10-month course, he was commissioned as an ensign in the United States Naval Reserve at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi on June 9, 1943, just three days before his 19th birthday, which made him the youngest naval aviator to that date.[1]
He was assigned to Torpedo Squadron (VT-51) as the photographic officer in September 1943.[1] The following year, his squadron was based on USS San Jacinto as a member of Air Group 51, where his lanky physique earned him the nickname "Skin".[6] During this time, the task force was victorious in one of the largest air battles of World War II: the Battle of the Philippine Sea.[1]
After Bush's promotion to Lieutenant (junior grade) on August 1, 1944, San Jacinto commenced operations against the Japanese in the Bonin Islands. Bush piloted one of four Grumman TBM Avenger aircraft from VT-51 that attacked the Japanese installations on Chichijima.[7] His crew for the mission, which occurred on September 2, 1944, included Radioman Second Class John Delaney and Lieutenant Junior Grade William White.[1] During their attack, the Avengers encountered intense anti-aircraft fire; Bush's aircraft was hit by flak and his engine caught on fire. Despite his plane being on fire, Bush completed his attack and released bombs over his target, scoring several damaging hits.[1] With his engine ablaze, Bush flew several miles from the island, where he and one other crew member on the TBM Avenger bailed out of the aircraft;[8] the other man's parachute did not open.[1] Bush waited for four hours in an inflated raft, while several fighters circled protectively overhead until he was rescued by the lifeguard submarine USS Finback.[1] For the next month he remained on Finback, and participated in the rescue of other pilots. Several of those shot down during the attack were executed and eaten by their captors.[9]
Bush subsequently returned to San Jacinto in November 1944 and participated in operations in the Philippines until his squadron was replaced and sent home to the United States. Through 1944, he flew 58 combat missions[8] for which he received the Distinguished Flying Cross, three Air Medals, and the Presidential Unit Citation awarded to San Jacinto.[1]
Because of his valuable combat experience, Bush was reassigned to Norfolk Navy Base and put in a training wing for new torpedo pilots. He was later assigned as a naval aviator in a new torpedo squadron, VT-153, based at Naval Air Station Grosse Ile, Michigan. Upon the Japanese surrender in 1945, Bush was honorably discharged in September of that year.
I'd say HW deserves your respect and gratitude.
This post was edited on 1/18/17 at 6:45 am
Posted on 1/18/17 at 6:55 am to KeyserSoze999
keep MELTING cuck beta
Posted on 1/18/17 at 6:55 am to GetCocky11
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I'd say HW deserves your respect and gratitude.
Nah, he is as big a turd as his son.
Bush 41 committed US troops to Somalia on December 4, AFTER he lost the 1992 election. He did it just so the Clinton people would frick up the whole thing, which they promptly did.
Bush orders U.S. troops to Somalia
President George H. Bush orders 28,000 U.S. troops to Somalia, a war-torn East African nation where rival warlords were preventing the distribution of humanitarian aid to thousands of starving Somalis. In a military mission he described as “God’s work,” Bush said that America must act to save more than a million Somali lives, but reassured Americans that “this operation is not open-ended” and that “we will not stay one day longer than is absolutely necessary.” Unfortunately, America’s humanitarian troops became embroiled in Somalia’s political conflict, and the controversial mission stretched on for 15 months before being abruptly called off by President Bill Clinton in 1993."
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I never made much of connection here until I found out that the NGO's had begged the Bush White House for a year for military action - which Bush finally sent after he was defeated.
Gary Gordon and
Randy Shughart
KIA in Somalia.
Nothing Obama has done was as bad as that.
This post was edited on 1/18/17 at 6:59 am
Posted on 1/18/17 at 7:07 am to WhiskeyPapa
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Nothing Obama has done was as bad as that.
The families of those who died in Bengazi disagree.
Posted on 1/18/17 at 7:08 am to Eurocat
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President Bush (the first one)
I have crashed in my aircraft into water in the Vietnam war, it was a harrowing experience. We all survived.
George Bush went down in WWII into the ocean during battle. He was rescued and got into a SECOND aircraft that day to continue the fight. That SOB has balls, real balls.
Whatever you think of him, he is the real deal as an American Military Aviator.
Posted on 1/18/17 at 7:19 am to Mulat
He bailed with men still in the plane who were never heard from again.
Posted on 1/18/17 at 7:21 am to Mulat
Look at all of the hardasses in here trying act like HW was some awful American. Another example of how this board has gone to shite.
Posted on 1/18/17 at 7:24 am to Minnesota Tiger
I'm no fan of the Bushes but 41 is a GD hero.
Posted on 1/18/17 at 7:25 am to Eurocat
I will admit that I voted for both Bushs before I was on the know.... that being said, frick the whole Bush family! Those corrupt pieces of shite!
Posted on 1/18/17 at 7:27 am to CGSC Lobotomy
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Nothing Obama has done was as bad as that.
The families of those who died in Bengazi disagree.
I meant as he goes out the door. I should have been more clear.
Obama should have said 'no' to any intervention in Libya, that is true.
Posted on 1/18/17 at 7:29 am to WhiskeyPapa
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WhiskeyPapa
You serious? Clinton's incompetence is largely to blame for Somalia.
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