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| To: rmonsen@GOVERNMENT-CENTER.BBN.COM
| Subject: Bush-league Hero (Was: Re: Oliver North!)
| Date: Tue, 16 Aug 88 13:23:43 EDT
|
| } From: rmonsen@GOVERNMENT-CENTER.BBN.COM
| } To: dryfoo@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
| } Date: Tue, 16 Aug 88 11:39:47 EDT
| } Subject: Re: Oliver North!
| }
| } dryfoo@athena.mit.edu (Gary L. Dryfoos):
| } > } ...George, the war hero...
| } >
| } > Uhmm... IF I was piloting a plane, and I bailed out 'cause I thought it
| } > might be on fire (even tho' other witnesses later said it wasn't), and
| } > IF after I bailed out I survived, and IF the other two guys who were in
| } > the plane I was piloting, two guys who stayed on board and tried to
| } > bring the plane under control after I'd bailed out, IF those two guys
| } > DIED when the plane crashed into the ocean, THEN I might be glad that
| } > I'd saved my ass, but I sure wouldn't let *anybody* refer to me as a WAR
| } > HERO, ever! I didn't know any of this stuff about Geo. Bush 'til
| } > recently, but it is interesting.
| }
| } Ok, where did you hear this? It needs to be proclaimed loudly from the
| } rooftops. Please don't tell me you heard it from someone 'on the inside'
| } of the Duke campaign.
|
| Nope. I don't know anyone on the inside of the Dukakampaign. I read
| about it on the front page of the Boston Globe (an admittedly mostly
| pro-Duke rag) a couple of days ago. (This past Friday? or Saturday?
| Real recent. Call the Globe and check their morgue.)
|
| The guy they quoted was another flyer in the same wing or squadron or
| whatever they are. He says that contrary to Bush's assertion, the plane
| wasn't on fire. "There was a puff of smoke." Someone from the Bush
| campaign said essentially, "The vice-president has told this story many
| times, therefore this version is absurd." The Globe story used that
| quoted "absurd" 3 times.
|
| I wish I'd cut this one out. If you find it, please send me a
| photocopy. (I'll trade you copies of my Reagan and the Two Big Fucking
| Dogs stories.)
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