Was Bu$h In Rehab Or In A Mental Institution In The Early 70's?

[Zorra]

Just asking.

Nobody seems to know where Bu$h was when he was AWOL from the National Guard. Nobody seems to have seen him during this time, and neither Bu$h nor members of his family will say where he was.

Presently, Bu$h frequently exhibits obvious signs of some type of mental or emotional disorder.

His roommate at the Guard describes Bu$h's life as "irrational" at the time he was in the Guard:

In a 2002 interview with USA TODAY, Dean Roome, a former fighter pilot who lived with Bush in the early 1970s, said that during the first part of Bush's pilot service, he was a model officer. But he described Bush's Air Guard career as erratic — the first three years solid, the last two troubled.

“You wonder if you know who George Bush is,” Roome said. “I think he digressed after a while. In the first half, he was gung-ho. Where George failed was to fulfill his obligation as a pilot. It was an irrational time in his life.”

Pressed for details during the 2002 interview, Roome declined to elaborate. In February this year, replying to an e-mail from USA TODAY, Roome wrote that he admires Bush and does not want to be seen as attacking him. “Only George W. Bush knows why he was unable to continue flying in the Guard,” Roome wrote.

http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20040913/a_documents13.art.htm

Bu$h is an admitted alcoholic and it is often reported that he used cocaine. He refused to take a National Guard physical exam which is consistent with behavior often exhibited by drug abusers.

Also, he has repeatedly documentably lied about this period of his
life.

So....where was he, what was he doing, and how come no one apparently saw him for a substantial period of time that he himself can not account for?

Was he in Happy Acres "Rest Asylum", perhaps because he had a complete breakdown caused by drug and alcohol abuse compounded by an unstable personality, or was he in a drug rehab cleaning up from cocaine?

Just asking....does anyone know where Bu$h was at that time?

[Catfight]

1. Bush must have immediate gratification, otherwise he gets depressed. nt

[tom_paine]

2. Roome wrote that he admires Bush and does not want to be seen as attacking

him...

In other words, he fears reprisals, personal, professional, or directly physical.

[LibertyorDeath]

3. Bush was arrested in 1972 for cocaine possession

Bush was arrested in 1972 for cocaine possession, and taken to Harris County Jail, but avoided jail or formal charges through an informal diversion plan involving community service with Project P.U.L.L., an inner city Houston program for troubled youths at the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center in Houston's dirt-poor Third Ward.

That year certainly is out of character with the rest of Bush Jr.'s life. Before and after 1972, he was a rich, hard drinking playboy. Suddenly, and only that one time in his life, he worked for a liberal charity in an inner city ghetto. As soon as the year was over, he resumed his previous pattern and has done no charity work since.

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/10/18/cocaine/

http://www.realchange.org/bushjr.htm

http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/3671

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=george+w+bush+Project+P.U.L.L.&btnG=Search&meta=

[Zorra]

6. A family friend says Bu$h was a drunken liability to his father's campaign

and his father wanted to get him out of the way.

George Jr sent out of Texas by father as a 'drunken liability'

Gary Younge in New York
Friday September 3, 2004
The Guardian

The US president, George Bush, was transferred to the Alabama National Guard during the Vietnam war because his drunken behaviour was a political liability to his father in Texas, the wife of one of his father's former confidants revealed yesterday.

Linda Allison told the political website Salon.com that throughout the time Mr Bush was in Alabama she never saw him in uniform and had no idea he was supposed to be in the National Guard.

"Georgie was raising a lot of hell in Houston, getting in trouble and embarrassing the family and they just really wanted to get him out of Houston." Asked if she had ever seen him in uniform Mrs Allison said: "Good Lord, no. I had no idea the National Guard was involved in his life."

Mrs Allison is the wife of the late Jimmy Allison, a former political consultant and newspaper owner from Midland, Texas and one time confidant of the Bush family. Motivated by pride in her husband and pique at the manner in which the Bush family discarded him once they believed he was no longer useful, the interview is the first she has ever given.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,13918,1296350,00.html

[LibertyorDeath]

7. Thanks for this.

I hope CBS & Dan Rather keep digging into bush"s* past & reporting.

Going to forward this article to them. :)

[patcox2]

9. Thats why Bush won't deny cocaine use.

He knows that if this conviction is discovered, the fact that he lied about it will be what sinks him. he knows his faithful will forgive a "youthful indiscretion." But he has been and continues to be very very careful never to lie about it. He has never denied using cocaine. He once went so far as to say he never did it within a certain number of years of his father's election, which I think worked out to 1971.

It explains everything, why he had to get out of Houston, why he couldn't take the physical, his guard absence, and his weird non-answer on the question.

Of course, he feels free to lie about all subsequent cocaine use, because in the end those occasions will always be "he said, she said" even if someone, like Sharon Bush, does come out with it. But he eill not lie about the cocaine use underlying the conviction.

By the way, he may lie about the conviction itself; most state's expungement laws allow a person with an expunged conviction to answer "no" if asked if they have ever been convicted. He would have to be specifically asked "have you ever had a conviction expunged" in order to catch him.

[LibertyorDeath]

10. Wonder if there is a way to trace or access an

expunged conviction?

[sffreeways]

4. Coke

makes you paranoid. He was locked in an apartment somewhere peeking out the curtian waiting for Laura to come back with the 8 ball.

[starroute]

5. He was seen in Alabama -- just not at the National Guard

But plenty of people at the Blount campaign saw him in the summer-fall of 1972. So did the people whose house he rented and wrecked. I don't think he actually disappeared for any extended period of time -- he just wasn't where he was supposed to be.

[Zorra]

8. Thanks. I found a link where people say they saw Bu$h at this time.

Apparently, daddy Bu$h had Georgie "committed" to Alabama because Georgie was being an asshole in Texas.

Bush remembered from social contacts
Saturday, February 28, 2004
BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE
News staff writer
snip------
That's what the Smith family remembers most about Bush, how he left their aunt's home damaged, dirty and dumpy.

"He was just a rich kid who had no respect for other people's possessions," said Mary Smith, whose family found damaged walls, broken furnishings and a chandelier destroyed after Bush left the house. A bill sent to collect the damages went unpaid, the family said
snip-----
Archibald, a Blount relative by marriage, said he believes Bush's social side interfered with his job. He said he remembers many times when Bush would come to the Montgomery office late and leave early. He'd tell stories about his drinking the night before, like a frat boy bragging to his brothers. "I just found it strange that a guy in his mid-20s would feel comfortable enough to talk about that," Archibald said.

Several weeks after Archibald went to work for Blount as a volunteer in September 1972, Allison told him the campaign was having trouble getting materials out to the counties. Allison told Archibald to take over the job, one that Archibald said Bush wasn't doing. That's where Bush got the nickname "the Texas Souffle," Archibald said, from some of the volunteers who thought he looked good on the outside but didn't have much inside.

http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1077963426278660.xml

[Karenina]

11. I'm sure that James R. Bath feller saw him.

Quite frequently. Whar IS dat boy, anyhoo???

[annabanana]

12. the Texas Souffle...................lol........n/t