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Comment by Bruce Hopkins on January 17, 2014 at 3:45pm

"BUSH: I wonder why the shoot didn't open for other guys? Why me? Why am I blessed?"

I think the transcriber MEANT to use "chute".

Comment by Citizen Quasar on January 16, 2014 at 2:57pm

The same morons who voted for McCain for Senator...

Comment by James Power on January 16, 2014 at 1:20pm

Who the fu** votes  for the likes of Insane McCain, could you imagine him as president.

Comment by Central Scrutinizer on January 16, 2014 at 8:31am

The incompetence is astounding, seems these pricks were Aholes all their life....and yet these are the assklowns who end up on Criminal Hill

Comment by Citizen Quasar on January 16, 2014 at 8:23am

Perhaps I am mistaken or I didn't remember correctly. My information is from George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography by Webster Tarpley and Anto Chaitkin.

John McCain crashed 3 planes and almost 4. He also set an aircraft carrier flight deck on fire.

Comment by James Power on January 15, 2014 at 2:12pm

The Island of Chichi-Jima was also the subject of a book by James Bradley entitled Flyboys: A True Story of Courage, a factual account of the lives of a group of young World War II pilots, including George H. W. Bush. The book tells the story of United States Navy pilots who bombed the island's two radio stations, and details the stories of the US pilots who were captured, tortured, executed, and in some cases, partially eaten in February 1945.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chichi-jima

GEORGE H. W. BUSH, FRM. PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA -Interview on CNN:

I can tell I was hit. The plane was burning. The cockpit was beginning to fill up with smoke.

ZAHN: George Bush survived but the crash killed both his crewmembers and would affect him the rest of his life.

BUSH: I wonder why the shoot didn't open for other guys? Why me? Why am I blessed?

ZAHN: We went with the former president on a journey of reconciliation to the place where he nearly died.

BUSH: God bless those boys.

ZAHN: And the island he barely escaped, where American POWs met a horrendous fate.

BUSH: It's not easy to talk about.

ZAHN: Tonight, the 41 president and the wartime events that altered his life.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

ZAHN: They were nine, nine American flyboys all on missions impossible. Over a remote Pacific island in the waning months of World War II, all nine were shot down. Only one survived, the rest disappeared. 

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0312/20/cp.00.html

I think George was shot down four times.

Comment by Citizen Quasar on January 15, 2014 at 6:21am

There were only 3 servicemen on board. They all died in the plane crash. The caption to this picture is incorrect.