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Ex-Texas Politician Admits He Helped Bush Get Nat. Guard Duty

HeadlineAug 30, 2004

In campaign news, the former speaker of the Texas House Speaker, Ben Barnes, has revealed that he helped President George W. Bush and the sons of other rich families to get into the Texas National Guard so they could avoid serving in Vietnam.

Meanwhile on Saturday, President Bush admitted on the Today show that he believes that John Kerry was heroic during the Vietnam War. He said “going to Vietnam was more heroic than my flying fighter jets. He was in harm’s way and I wasn’t.”

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