__In 1978, Bush LIED About Serving 'In the US Air Force'
David Corn writes, "In 1978, Bush, while running for Congress in West
Texas, produced campaign literature that claimed he had served in the US
Air Force. According to a 1999 AP report, Bush's congressional campaign
ran a pullout ad in the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal that declared he had
served 'in the US Air Force and the Texas Air National Guard where he
piloted the F-102 aircraft.' Bush lost that congressional race, but
twenty-one years later, the AP questioned him about the ad. The news
outlet had a good reason to do so. Bush had never served in the Air
Force. He had only been in the Air National Guard. But when AP asked
Bush if he had been justified in claiming service in the Air Force,
Bush, then the governor of Texas and a presidential candidate, said, 'I
think so, yes. I was in the Air Force for over 600 days'... Yet no
firestorm ensued. Will Republican funders now underwrite a group called
Air Force Veterans for Truth?"
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