SueB 17 Dec 03 - 05:32 PM Asks

"What do dead babies have to do with Bush being AWOL for a good portion of his military service?"....the baby/incubator story is as true as the Bush/AWOL story.

I see you subscribe to the same high regard for circumstantial evidence as does Bobert. I would be worried about your 'logic', than mine, when applied to the subject being discussed. What in effect you are saying is:

" if (I believe, or think that) a person commits a crime, but gets away with (what I think, or believe he/she did) it, i.e. is not prosecuted for it (i.e. nobody else thought this person did anything wrong), then the crime (that only I think was perpetrated) didn't happen or must not have been a crime."

The correct expression, by the bye, is, "Rank hath its privileges" and the "hath" seems to indicate Biblical rather than military origins.

Anyone who truly knows anything about leadership knows that the expression you referred to about "rank has it's privileges" is false. There are very few, if any, privileges that go with rank, and the ones that might be there, don't in any way make up for the burden of the responsibility.

Thank you for admiring my touching faith in the military judicial system - despite the fact that such faith on my part does not exist, the military judicial system is as flawed as any other - but I am at least speaking from experience. While in the forces, one thing I did have faith in was the disciplinary code of conduct - difference between that and the military judicial system. Violate the first, the second becomes involved.

Question for you SueB - doesn't matter who their fathers (mothers?) are - HRH Duke of York, second son of HM Queen, 1982 Falklands, Helicopter Pilot flying SeaKings acting as decoys for Argentinian missile attacks - that was special treatment was it?