The Iraq war originally included Guard and Reserve units. A lot of new recruits to the Guard units did so to get college benefits, thinking if they did get activated it would be local stateside deployment. The thing with Bush and Lloyd Benson's son that belonged to the same "champagne unit" in Houston is that their fathers supported the Vietnam War. G.W. Bush's and his buddy Bath's refusal to show up for a flight physical has never been explained. When Bush became Texas Governor it appears records went missing. Bush wanted a contract for the Texas Lottery the Democrats controlled. He backed off investigating for some reason. In 1970 Benson beat Sen. Yarborough on a pro-Vietnam stance in the Democrat primary. Benson then beat George H.W. Bush in the general election. Much of the Vietnam war protest was about people of privilege not facing combat. In Vietnam reporters went where they wanted. In Iraq, reporters were embedded and usually kept away from the action, but some still managed to get killed or maimed.
The Iraq war originally included Guard and Reserve units. A lot of new recruits to the Guard units did so to get college benefits, thinking if they did get activated it would be local stateside deployment. The thing with Bush and Lloyd Benson's son that belonged to the same "champagne unit" in Houston is that their fathers supported the Vietnam War. G.W. Bush's and his buddy Bath's refusal to show up for a flight physical has never been explained. When Bush became Texas Governor it appears records went missing. Bush wanted a contract for the Texas Lottery the Democrats controlled. He backed off investigating for some reason. In 1970 Benson beat Sen. Yarborough on a pro-Vietnam stance in the Democrat primary. Benson then beat George H.W. Bush in the general election. Much of the Vietnam war protest was about people of privilege not facing combat. In Vietnam reporters went where they wanted. In Iraq, reporters were embedded and usually kept away from the action, but some still managed to get killed or maimed.