Paddy at Last!

It only took 40 plus years...a mere heartbeat of time in the Grand Scheme of things...but at long last George Dubya has found his way to the rice paddies of Viet Nam.

Do you think he will find it the SAME jungle that the multitude of America's military found it back in the 60's and 70's...when the war raged?

I remember...

Since it didn't happen all THAT long ago...

Perhaps a year...PROBABLY less...

When my adult daughter...

Noting Dubya's VALUABLE service to our Country during the monumentally difficult war in Viet Nam...

At least when he could be found, that is, back then...

In the National Guard...

Thanks to Daddy Bush...

In Texas...

The HOTBED of Viet Cong incursion!!!!

(Why have our history books failed to recount all the skirmishes, Dubya and his fellow NG'ers((National Guarders, that is,) engaged in during their military service during the 60's and 70's.)

I have to admit to my shame...or encroaching Alzheimers...that I can NOT, to this day, remember the North Viet Namese trying to take Dallas, Waco, Abiliene, or ANY Texas strongholds.

(Musta been during my OSTRICH days when I had my head buried in the bomb cellar beneath our dog pen.) ANYBODY can have a bomb cellar beneath their home! :>)

There are those, I am sure, who scoff at Dubya's enlistment and pivotal performances fighting the enemy in the Texas division of the National Guard...but surely they MUST be wrong. How could Dubya, an absolute fanatic about engaging America in HIS war in Iraq, all these years later, have skirted Viet Nam and his duty to protect and defend his Country when it had been HIS turn to fight?

I wonder, was Texas as much of a mess as Saigon back then? Did Dubya have to worry about the similarities between the allies he was fighting for and the enemy he was fighting against all looking alike as the men and women who fought the war on the foreign soil in Viet Nam did?

What a shame we did not have embedded journalists in the Texas jungle back then? How much more glory would Dubya be able to draw upon were there news footage of him engaging The Viet Cong back to be produced at will. (He might not have had to wear that spiffy flight outfit during his STUPENDOUS "Mission Accomplished" ego-op three years ago.)

I am fairly certain there will be PLENTY of news footage from his sojourn in TODAY'S Viet Nam and his "Aw Shucks! I'm just an average sorta guy" humility.

By traveling to the much CALMER Viet Nam of today, Dubya will FINALLY be able to accurately describe the places he never saw all those years ago, (Although I doubt he'll have the opportunity to EXPERIENCE the lesson's...oh Let's Say John McCain and John Kerry had while in Viet Nam back then)...

And hopefully he will ALSO be able to return those North Viet Cong rebels he and his fellow Texas National Guardsmen captured (you HAVE to wonder where they were imprisioned, dontcha?)long years ago and as far away as the Rice Paddies of the Longhorn State of Texas. (Do you think they used the Alamo as their prison encampent?)

I suppose Dubya's arriving this late is better than NEVER arriving...sorta...maybe...

All I can say to Dubya is...

Now that the Viet Nam War is over...LONG over...it is truly great of you to finally visit the place that spawned all those VC that dastardley kept all you Texas military types so busy back then...

Bravo Warrior Man Dubya!!!