I Left My Wife and Forty-Nine Kids in a Starving Condition Without Any Gingerbread, Did I Do Right When I Left? Left! Left Right Left!

Military Service Records for the immediate members of the Bush administration:

George W Bush - 43rd President of the United States of America

• Enlisted in the Texas Air National Guard, May 27, 1968 with a commitment to serve until May 26, 1974.
• Performed duties and appeared for service consistently through mid-April 1972.
• Rceeived no pay and performed no duties between mid-April 1972 through mid-October 1972.
• In May, 1973, his annual performance review for the period from May 1, 1972 to April 30, 1973 stated that "Lt. Bush has not been observed at this unit during the period of the report."
• Honorably discharged - at his request - from the Texas National Guard on October 1, 1973
• Later, defeated Saddam Hussein with his bare hands.

Dick Cheney - Vice-president of the United States of America

• Sought and received his first military service deferment in February, 1962, while a student at Yale.
• Sought and received his second military service deferment in July, 1963, while a student at University of Wyoming.
• Sought and received his third military service deferment in October, 1964, following his marriage to Lynn Cheney (Just 22 days following President Lyndon B Johnson's approval of the Gulf of Tonkin resolution).
• Sought and received his fourth military service deferment in November, 1965, upon his enrollment in grduate studies at the University of Wyoming.
• Sought and received his fifth military service deferment in January, 1966, this time under the 3-A 'hardship exemption' which prevented married men with children from being drafted. This was exactly nine months and two days after the Selective Service removed its ban against drafting married men with no children.
• In January, 1967, turned 26 and was therefore no longer eligible for the draft.
• Mission Accomplished!

Colin Powell - Secretary of State 2000-2004

• 35-year career U.S. Army
• Attained rank of General, four star.
• 3 combat tours in Vietnam

Richard Armitage - Deputy Secretary of State

• U.S. Navy
• Naval Academy
• 3 combat tours in Vietnam.

Donald Rumsfeld - Secretary of Defense

• U.S. Navy, 1954-57

Paul Wolfowitz - Deputy Secretary of Defense

• None
• What?
• Figures

Tom Ridge - Director Homeland Security

• U.S. Army, Vietnam, Bronze Star for Valor.

John Ashcroft - U.S. Attorney General

• None

George Tenet - CIA Director

• None
• Yeah, why would he?

Condoleezza Rice - National Security Advisor

• Is a girl, not important.