Bush Says the National Guard is a Waste of Money

May 31, 2005

After checking the list of proposed base closures, it is incredible that so many National Guard bases, offices and locations will be shut down.  Maybe this is necessary but one wonders.

Base closures started during the Daddy Bush administration in response to the new realities of U.S. security of the late 1980s.  Overall, the military was downsized using a very politicized process that always generated controversy but worked. Clinton followed through on those plans in the 1990's.

No community wants its base closed and as expected, are voicing their opposition.  Bush’s response to critics was that spending money on the bases was a waste and would be better spent in Iraq.

Incredible! That’s a slap in the face to the thousands of National Guard members who have gone to Iraq from those bases.

Maybe the reason he has focused on the Guard is that when he was assigned to a Guard unit in the 1970’s he didn’t show.  He disserted his unit in time of war to snort cocaine, smoke pot, drink to excess and generally screw around. And he thought no one would notice.

What kind of perverted human being would say that money for Guard units supporting the “war effort” is a waste of money and not worthy of consideration. Maybe Bush thinks all guardsmen and women are like he was and so their jobs should be eliminated..

Buy hey, he doesn't care! He isn’t running for re-selection. He believes the thousands of patriots soon to be unemployed and who probably voted for him in 2004, will just have to deal with it.

Too bad Daddy Bush didn't "deal with it" and his son years ago. But then, Daddy's everywhere have always had problems with sociopathic sons who make believe they have morals and hide behind religion like Christianity. The proposed National Guard unit closures and reasons for them are a symptom of a sick mind made worse by substance abuse.

Oh yeah..... how can Bush claim fiscal responsibility now when he and his party spent the Clinton-era surplus, increased the size of government, created trillions in debt mainly to benefit the rich and gave billions in handouts to oil and drug companies?

Yet another symptom.