Faux Flight Suit
Beauprez, You’re No Vet
By Richard Martin, 2-02-06
And if drafted I will not serve.
Bob Beauprez, congressman and candidate for governor of Colorado, apparently didn't learn anything from President Bush's "Mission-Accomplished" appearance on a U.S. carrier, wearing a flight jacket. That photo-op later turned into a P.R. nightmare for Bush, and fodder for late-night comedians for weeks. Beauprez looks like he may have pulled a similar blunder.
According to a group of Vietnam veterans, Beauprez has no business appearing in uniform, as he did at the Front Range Airport in Watkins, Colorado in June, 2004 (see photo at right).
"We have reviewed the Selective Service Classification History for Robert Louis Beauprez," the veterans report on the "Veterans for Progress" Web site, "and these records indicate that he requested and received three different student deferments. They also indicate that Beauprez came up for the draft, based on his lottery drawing for 1970 of #160. Yet on August 6, 1970 the records indicate that Beauprez was 'excused' because of a questionable 'physical reason.'
"Mr. Beauprez appears to want it both ways," the Vietnam vets conclude. "He publicly parades in a military issued uniform, and yet the records show Beauprez never served."
What's more, according to the Disabled American Veterans, Beauprez has "the worst voting record of any of the Colorado congressional delegation on veteran's issues."
Led by Staff Sergeant Mike Collins (1st Air Calvary Division, Vietnam), Sergeant Jim Hudson (Vietnam veteran, 1969-70), and Retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Bob Resling (a pilot in Vietnam from 1969-72), the vets are calling on Beauprez to apologize – and to lose the flight suit.
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Either way, sure beats that Teletubbies outfit John Kerry put on last summer!
He was there for the "Rocky Mountain EAA Regional Fly-In (RMRFI)" at "their new location, Front Range Airport (FTG), Watkins, Colorado"
EAA is the "experimental aircraft association." It has nothing to do with the military or the airforce, you lying jackoff.
Here's the article, and another photo of B-1 Bob in his flightsuit with other members of the EAA.
http://www.eaa.org/communications/eaanews/040630_rmrfi.html
Remember when newspapers reported facts?
http://www.progressnowaction.org/page/community/post_group/ProgressNowStaff/CLkj
What's the point? Who knows, probably has something to do with the voting score of ZERO with the Disabled Veterans of America. and the multiple draft deferments in the Sixties like all those other...and the PE student who claimed medical and can still fly in fighter planes or restored warbirds or ultralights or whatever.
What exactly should anybody be retracting here, other than that flight suit's cod-piece?
Looks like Flightsuit Bob just got busted. It appears he kept that flightsuit he received when he flew in the F-16, and then wore it again at that civilian aircraft show to make him look like he was a former member of Top Gun!
How pathetic can you get.
The Beauprez staffers who are scrambling to do damage control on this disaster better start coming up with better material, got that "relax" and Jeff?
http://i.cnn.net/cnn/interactive/allpolitics/0408/gallery.kerry.record/gal.kerry.medal.jpg
Isn't there some kind of penalty for impersonating a member of the armed forces?
I grew up on Tyndall AFB and served my country as did my father and his father and my brothers as well. I am also a pilot who flys out of every airport in the Denver area.
ALMOST EVERY politician, veteran or not, has done exactly the same thing. So has the civilian pilot community, military aviation and simulation enthusiest community as well.
Not to mention kids at halloween, ROTC and CAP units, Flight Clubs, and I could go on and on.
This writer is a JOKE. I would contend that if he actually ever took a course in journalism perhaps he missed a few key classes. If you read anything he writes its a blemish on the New West image. This person doesnt even make a good editorialist. The stories are biased, unresearched nonsenses ( perhaps why it is masked in the Unfiltered section of this webpage ). Anyone with an account and HTML knowledge can try and pass themselves off as a writer as this person does.
I have an account and perhaps I will write a story and title it "What happened to journalism".
I will sum up one REAL LIFE FACT to the ignorant, including Mr. Martin, so you can get a grip on the real world around you....
( About the War )
Cindy Sheehan is dishonoring her son. She is against a war which would give the Iraqi people liberties she is obviously exercising freely here in the US, ESPECIALLY WOMEN. In Iraq Ms. Sheehan would not be allowed to attend school, speak against her government,own property, VOTE, RUN FOR PUBLIC OFFICE. And if she tried to excercise her freedom of religion or sexual preferance she would be beheaded in the park without a trial.
Mr. Hussein was responsible for the excecution of approx. 50,000 men women and CHILDREN. An amount that equals the size of Owensborough Kentucky. NOW , If our president MUSTARD GASSED that many people he would not only be impeached but would be tried and excecuted. I would like you to ask the Mother who was lying in the street DEAD still cradeling her DEAD child after the mustard gass was gone WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE US REMOVING SADAAM. IMAGINE THAT YOUR WIFE AND CHILD... I have been there, HAVE YOU !
So if you are against the war you are also against the womans sufferage movement, against free speach, against the right to a good education, YET you support systematic genocide, oppresionist regimes, terrorist activity.....
I can remember groups in the 1940's who actually supported the NAZI movement RIGHT HERE IN AMERICA, I would guess Richard would be on that council
Seig Heil , Mr Martin and Ms Sheehan
THe worst thing about it is that her son SUPPORTED THE WAR and WAS PROUD to serve in the military. His name should be honored not overshadowed by his moms search for the public spotlight.
SHe didnt mind the military feeding him , giving him a paycheck, and giving him a place to go when she wanted him out of the house. Next time try the Air Force Ms Sheehan, THe ARmMY FIGHTS IN WARS for a living. THATS WHAT THEY DO !
SHAME ON YOU for taking the paycheck and the benefits , and now making yourself RICH on the blood of an American who died to give others the freedoms you so readily exploit.
SHAME ON YOU
"Bob Beauprez is a fraud and a walking insult to the Troops and Veterans. I fought and risked my life for my country in Iraq, and many of my friends are still there, or are heading there.
"Beauprez begged the government to excuse him from wearing the uniform during Vietnam, but now begs to wear one, as long as it is in the comfy confines of his Colorado district. We Veterans might be able to overlook this if Beauprez was a friend to the Veterans community. Unfortunately, he is not. He has consistently voted against Veterans, most recently voting 'nay' on adding millions of much needed dollars to the Department of Veterans Affairs Budget."
I'm curious, are you familiar with the phrase from watching WWII movies, or because that's how you address President Butch on a daily basis when you see him on the TV.
Do you spring to your feet, ramrod straight, and thrust your right hand in the air when you do it too?
I think you are the wrong century and country, fella.
I also find it interesting that you brought up Saddam Hussein's killing spree from the 1980's.
Back then, he was Ronald Reagan's best buddy in the middle East. and Don Runsfeld paid him a visit to let him know that gassing the Kurds was no biggie.
And, you know what else I am certain about? I am certain that you didn't give a rat's ass about the freedom of the Iraq people under your Furher, George W. Butch, told you to.
Yup.
Where were you when Saddam was killing all those people? Clamoring for a humanitarian invasion? I bet you were using all kionds of disgusting invective against Bill Clinton for bombing Serbia and for threatening to invade Haiti.
You hypocritical scumbag phony patriots make me sick. If you want to fight for an Iranian client state in Iraq, do it your goddamn self.
Why don't yuou move to Uzbekistan where dissidents get boiled to deah for criticizing tehir fearless leader?
America's freedom, love it or get the F out.
"In what has become a grisly, but almost daily occurrence in the Iraqi capital, police Saturday discovered 14 bodies, shot in the head and dumped in a Baghdad neighborhood.
Bound and blindfolded, the bodies were clad in civilian clothes, said police Capt. Mukhalad Ani.
Sunni Arab leaders, who have aggressively denounced a recent series of late-night raids of residential communities by Iraqi police and soldiers, said the discovery was further evidence that Iraq's Shiite Muslim-led government was condoning the presence of sectarian death squads within the country's security forces.
"Forces of the Ministry of the Interior are making attacks in many districts of Baghdad and arrest people without any accusation, simply because they are Sunni people," said Baha Aldin Naqshabandi, an official with the Iraqi Islamic Party. The party, Iraq's largest Sunni political organization, warned this week of "nationwide civil disobedience" if the raids and detentions are not halted.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/04/AR2006020401173.html
Sectarian Death Squads!
Yippee! It really makes me proud of what our idiot "Commander n Chief" has wrought in Iraq.
Can thse Pro-Bush morons be any more clueless?
YES. THEY CAN. THEY *CERTAINLY* CAN!
They are either to stupid to see the plain truth or too stubborn to admit how stupid they are.