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weblog-blogspot.com_alaindewitt_20040929103700_ENG_20040929_103700-0043
He earned 137 points in 1970-1971.
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And he earned 112 points in 1971-1972.
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The numbers indicate that in his first four years, Bush not only showed up, he showed up a lot.
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Did you know that?
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weblog-blogspot.com_alaindewitt_20040929103700_ENG_20040929_103700-0047
That brings the story to May 1972 — the time that has been the focus of so many news reports — when Bush “deserted” (according to anti-Bush filmmaker Michael Moore) or went “AWOL” (according to Terry McAuliffe, chairman of the Democratic National Committee).
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weblog-blogspot.com_alaindewitt_20040929103700_ENG_20040929_103700-0048
Bush asked for permission to go to Alabama to work on a Senate campaign.
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His superior officers said OK.
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Requests like that were n’t unusual, says retired Col. William Campenni, who flew with Bush in 1970 and 1971.
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“In 1972, there was an enormous glut of pilots,” Campenni says.
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“The Vietnam War was winding down, and the Air Force was putting pilots in desk jobs.
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weblog-blogspot.com_alaindewitt_20040929103700_ENG_20040929_103700-0053
In ’72 or ’73, if you were a pilot, active or Guard, and you had an obligation and wanted to get out, no problem.
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In fact, you were helping them solve their problem.”
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So Bush stopped flying.
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weblog-blogspot.com_alaindewitt_20040929103700_ENG_20040929_103700-0056
From May 1972 to May 1973, he earned just 56 points — not much, but enough to meet his requirement.
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Then, in 1973, as Bush made plans to leave the Guard and go to Harvard Business School, he again started showing up frequently.
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In June and July of 1973, he accumulated 56 points, enough to meet the minimum requirement for the 1973-1974 year.
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Then, at his request, he was given permission to go.
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Bush received an honorable discharge after serving five years, four months and five days of his original six-year commitment.
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By that time, however, he had accumulated enough points in each year to cover six years of service.
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During his service, Bush received high marks as a pilot.
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A 1970 evaluation said Bush “clearly stands out as a top notch fighter interceptor pilot” and was “a natural leader whom his contemporaries look to for leadership.”
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A 1971 evaluation called Bush “an exceptionally fine young officer and pilot” who “continually flies intercept missions with the unit to increase his proficiency even further.”
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And a 1972 evaluation called Bush “an exceptional fighter interceptor pilot and officer.”
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Now, it is only natural that news reports questioning Bush ’s service — in The Boston Globe and The New York Times, on CBS and in other outlets — would come out now.
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Democrats are spitting mad over attacks on John Kerry ’s record by the group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.
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And, as it is with Kerry, it ’s reasonable to look at a candidate ’s entire record, including his military service — or lack of it.
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Voters are perfectly able to decide whether it ’s important or not in November.
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The Kerry camp blames Bush for the Swift boat veterans ’ attack, but anyone who has spent much time talking to the Swifties gets the sense that they are doing it entirely for their own reasons.
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And it should be noted in passing that Kerry has personally questioned Bush ’s service, while Bush has not personally questioned Kerry ’s .
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In April — before the Swift boat veterans had said a word — Kerry said Bush “has yet to explain to America whether or not, and tell the truth, about whether he showed up for duty.”
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Earlier, Kerry said, “Just because you get an honorable discharge does not, in fact, answer that question.”
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Now, after the Swift boat episode, the spotlight has returned to Bush.
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That ’s fine.
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We should know as much as we can.
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And perhaps someday Kerry will release more of his military records as well.
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Byron York is a White House correspondent for National Review.
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His column appears in The Hill each week.
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Thanks again to my friend Nick Keck for passing this along via e-mail.
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It is the text of a speech given by an Arab gentleman before the advisory board of a large multi-nation corporation.
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It 's a long but very worthwhile read.
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"A View from the Eye of the Storm"
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Talk delivered by Haim Harari at a meeting of the International Advisory Board of a large multi-national corporation, April, 2004:
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"As you know, I usually provide the scientific and technological "entertainment" in our meetings, but, on this occasion, our Chairman suggested that I present my own personal view on events in the part of the world from which I come.
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I have never been and I will never be a Government official and I have no privileged information.
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My perspective is entirely based on what I see, on what I read and on the fact that my family has lived in this region for almost 200 years.
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You may regard my views as those of the proverbial taxi driver, which you are supposed to question, when you visit a country.
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I could have shared with you some fascinating facts and some personal thoughts about the Israeli-Arab conflict.
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However, I will touch upon it only in passing.
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I prefer to devote most of my remarks to the broader picture of the region and its place in world events.
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I refer to the entire area between Pakistan and Morocco, which is predominantly Arab, predominantly Moslem, but includes many non-Arab and also significant non-Moslem minorities.
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Why do I put aside Israel and its own immediate neighborhood?
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Because Israel and any problems related to it, in spite of what you might read or hear in the world media, is not the central issue, and has never been the central issue in the upheaval in the region.
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Yes, there is a 100 year-old Israeli-Arab conflict, but it is not where the main show is.
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The millions who died in the Iran-Iraq war had nothing to do with Israel.
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The mass murder happening right now in Sudan, where the Arab Moslem regime is massacring its black Christian citizens, has nothing to do with Israel.
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The frequent reports from Algeria about the murders of hundreds of civilians in one village or another by other Algerians have nothing to do with Israel.
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Saddam Hussein did not invade Kuwait, endanger Saudi Arabia and butcher his own people because of Israel.
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Egypt did not use poison gas against Yemen in the 60's because of Israel.
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Assad the Father did not kill tens of thousands of his own citizens in one week in El Hamma in Syria because of Israel.
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The Taliban control of Afghanistan and the civil war there had nothing to do with Israel.
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The Libyan blowing up of the Pan-Am flight had nothing to do with Israel, and I could go on and on and on.
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The root of the trouble is that this entire Moslem region is totally dysfunctional, by any standard of the word, and would have been so even if Israel had joined the Arab league and an independent Palestine had existed for 100 years.
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The 22 member countries of the Arab league, from Mauritania to the Gulf States, have a total population of 300 millions, larger than the US and almost as large as the EU before its expansion.
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They have a land area larger than either the US or all of Europe.
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These 22 countries, with all their oil and natural resources, have a combined GDP smaller than that of Netherlands plus Belgium and equal to half of the GDP of California alone.
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Within this meager GDP, the gaps between rich and poor are beyond belief and too many of the rich made their money not by succeeding in business, but by being corrupt rulers.
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The social status of women is far below what it was in the Western World 150 years ago.
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Human rights are below any reasonable standard, in spite of the grotesque fact that Libya was elected Chair of the UN Human Rights commission.
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According to a report prepared by a committee of Arab intellectuals and published under the auspices of the U.N., the number of books translated by the entire Arab world is much smaller than what little Greece alone translates.
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The total number of scientific publications of 300 million Arabs is less than that of 6 million Israelis.
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Birth rates in the region are very high, increasing the poverty, the social gaps and the cultural decline.
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And all of this is happening in a region, which only 30 years ago, was believed to be the next wealthy part of the world, and in a Moslem area, which developed, at some point in history, one of the most advanced cultures in the world.
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It is fair to say that this creates an unprecedented breeding ground for cruel dictators, terror networks, fanaticism, incitement, suicide murders and general decline.
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It is also a fact that almost everybody in the region blames this situation on the United States, on Israel, on Western Civilization, on Judaism and Christianity, on anyone and anything, except themselves.
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A word about the millions of decent, honest, good people who are either devout Moslems or are not very religious but grew up in Moslem families: They are double victims of an outside world, which now develops Islamophobia, and of their own environment which breaks their heart by being totally dysfunctional.
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The problem is that the vast silent majority of these Moslems are not part of the terror and the incitement, but they also do not stand up against it.
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They become accomplices, by omission, and this applies to political leaders, intellectuals, business people and many others.
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Many of them can certainly tell right from wrong, but are afraid to express their views.
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The events of the last few years have amplified four issues, which have always existed, but have never been as rampant as in the present upheaval in the region.
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A few more years may pass before everybody acknowledges that it is a World War, but we are already well into it.
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These are the four main pillars of the current World Conflict, or perhaps we should already refer to it as "the undeclared World War III":
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*1. The first element is the suicide murder.*
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Suicide murders are not a new invention but they have been made popular, if I may use this expression, only lately.
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Even after September 11, it seems that most of the Western World does not yet understand this weapon.
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It is a very potent psychological weapon.
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Its real direct impact is relatively minor.
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The total number of casualties from hundreds of suicide murders within Israel in the last three years is much smaller than those due to car accidents.
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September 11 was quantitatively much less lethal than many earthquakes
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More people die from AIDS in one day in Africa than all the Russians who died in the hands of Chechnya-based Moslem suicide murderers since that conflict started.
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Saddam killed every month more people than all those who died from suicide murders since the Coalition occupation of Iraq.
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So what is all the fuss about suicide killings?
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It creates headlines.
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It is spectacular.
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It is frightening.
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It is a very cruel death with bodies dismembered and horrible severe lifelong injuries to many of the wounded.
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It is always shown on television in great detail.
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One such murder, with the help of hysterical media coverage, can destroy the tourism industry of a country for quite a while, as it did in Bali and in Turkey.
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But the real fear comes from the undisputed fact that no defense and no preventive measures can succeed against a determined suicide murderer.
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This has not yet penetrated the thinking of the Western World.
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The U.S. and Europe are constantly improving their defense against the last murder, not the next one.
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