Is Bush the Better Peace-With-Europe Candidate?

"B2431" wrote in message
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So people with speech impediments are nitwits?


He doesn't have a speach impediment; he has an intelligence impediment, an
integrety impediment.

From: "geo"
Date: 8/29/2004 8:16 PM Central Daylight Time
Message-id: NdvYc.4465$B91.913@trndny08

"B2431" wrote in message
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So people with speech impediments are nitwits?


He doesn't have a speach impediment; he has an intelligence impediment, an
integrety impediment.

If he wasn't intelligent he would never have earned a master's degree or
qualified in a jet fighter.

Then again, you don't care about facts.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

he could be fully qualified to fly F-102s even though
jet fighters take a lot of skill and intelligence to pilot?

Actually, I don't believe that's true. About 15 years ago I worked
with a guy that had at one time helped train middle-east pilots to fly
american built fighters. Unlike most US pilots, these guys got to be
pilots not because they were qualified, but because they were royalty
(there's a lot of royalty in the middle east). The stories he told
were great, and the bottom line was while it does take some skill to
fly, it doesn't take a lot. It does however, take a lot to fly well,
and if the middle east pilots ever got into a dogfight with US pilots,
the vast majority wouldn't last long enough to crap in their pants.

Rich

On 31 Aug 2004 06:44:12 -0700, (Rich) wrote:

he could be fully qualified to fly F-102s even though
jet fighters take a lot of skill and intelligence to pilot?

Actually, I don't believe that's true. About 15 years ago I worked
with a guy that had at one time helped train middle-east pilots to fly
american built fighters. Unlike most US pilots, these guys got to be
pilots not because they were qualified, but because they were royalty
(there's a lot of royalty in the middle east). The stories he told
were great, and the bottom line was while it does take some skill to
fly, it doesn't take a lot.

Read Richard Bach's _Stranger to the Ground_. In it, he says flying a jet
fighter (F-84F in his case) is so easy that the Air Force should train a
boy scout and a grandmother to fly them at air shows.

Ron Wanttaja