Bush* reason for not taking medical-"felt there was no reason to take it"

[sangh0]

Bush Acts Against Critics on Guard Records and 9/11
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/14/politics/14BUSH.html?...

"The White House also more definitively explained than it has in the past why Mr. Bush skipped a 1972 National Guard medical exam, which has been a source of enormous speculation from Mr. Bush's critics, who have suggested he did so because drug testing was introduced around that time.

The records show that Mr. Bush was suspended from flying beginning Aug. 1, 1972 because he failed to take the exam. His last flight exam was on May 15, 1971.

Mr. Bartlett said Mr. Bush missed the exam because he felt there was no reason to take it. Mr. Bush, he said, had begun his training in 1968 with the Air National Guard in Texas, where he flew a fighter jet, the F-102. When he moved to Alabama in 1972 to work in the Senate campaign of a friend of his father, Mr. Bush transferred to an Alabama unit of the Guard that did not fly the same plane. Because there was no way Mr. Bush could fly planes in Alabama, Mr. Bartlett said, he did not bother to report for the medical exam. "

Whenever you discuss this issue with someone else, make sure to ask how often individuals in the service get to decide which orders to follow and which are not needed?

[DoYouEverWonder]

I guess if you daddy is well connected

you don't have to worry about no stinking orders.

W has always acted like he doesn't have to listen to anybody else. I guess if your daddy helped get rid of JFK, you know no one will dare to lay a hand on you?

[jedicord]

1. Everyone in my company is required to take drug tests upon employment.

Even though I don't work with heavy machinery or drive a company vehicle I still had to take it, and in fact just took a random a month ago. If I had refused that test it would have been grounds for dismissal - as it is considered guilt by refusal.

I work in an office, for Chrissakes - he was working for the government - in the military no less.

[sangh0]

2. Next time

Tell them you don't "really need" to take the test.

[jedicord]

4. I that's good enough for the President...

that's good enough for me! AWRIGHT! Anyone know where I can score some mj? :smoke:

[sangh0]

15. Don't settle for less

Go cop some blow!!

[DeepModem Mom]

3. Didn't his buddy James Bath feel no reason to take his either?

They must have been two healthy-feeling, coke-snorting individuals!

[Ivote]

6. Wasn't it previously reported

that the reason was that he wanted his own doctor to do the exam & he wasn't available at the time.

[DeepModem Mom]

7. That's right! The previous excuse was that his Dr. was in Texas -- nt

[sangh0]

10. We are both right

Bush* has given different explanations at different times

[ET Awful]

5. NEWSFLASH . . . regardless of whether they have shrubyas plane

or not, all military personnel are required, with NO exceptions, to have an annual physical performed by a military doctor. This has been the case for many decades.

[enki23]

8. so... their defense is that "he didn't feel like it."

and that's the absolute *best* they can fucking do.

[GreenPartyVoter]

9. Yeah, I hear you don't have to do anything you don't feel like when you

are serving in the military.

[benburch]

11. This is why he was dishonorably discharged.

AND CANNOT PROVE OTHERWISE!

[Az_lefty]

12. This flakey 1 LT. in my Co. failed to show up for a medical

because he didn't think he needed to. The CO wrote up a letter of counseling and made go on Saturday, his day off.

Did this occur during the time of bush*'s "makeup" drills?

[seabeyond]

13. bush said before was cause was going to use personal doctor

story changes. just remember. not that he gets to chose the doctor any more than he gets to decide which rule to follow

[Joanne98]

14. Oh yeah. why did James R. Bath refuse to take his too?

Oh, I forgot. We're not supposed to talk about him.