George W. Bush's missing year

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George W. Bush's missing year
The widow of a Bush family confidant says her husband gave the future president an Alabama Senate campaign job as a favor to his worried father. Did they see him do any National Guard service? "Good lord, no."

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By Mary Jacoby



Sept. 2, 2004 | NEW YORK -- Before there was Karl Rove, Lee Atwater or even James Baker, the Bush family's political guru was a gregarious newspaper owner and campaign consultant from Midland, Texas, named Jimmy Allison. In the spring of 1972, George H.W. Bush phoned his friend and asked a favor: Could Allison find a place on the Senate campaign he was managing in Alabama for his troublesome eldest son, the 25-year-old George W. Bush?

"The impression I had was that 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 and under Jimmy's wing," Allison's widow, Linda, told me. "And Jimmy said, 'Sure.' He was so loyal."

Linda Allison's story, never before published, contradicts the Bush campaign's assertion that George W. Bush transferred from the Texas Air National Guard to the Alabama National Guard in 1972 because he received an irresistible offer to gain high-level experience on the campaign of Bush family friend Winton "Red" Blount. In fact, according to what Allison says her late husband told her, the younger Bush had become a political liability for his father, who was then the United States ambassador to the United Nations, and the family wanted him out of Texas. "I think they wanted someone they trusted to keep an eye on him," Linda Allison said.

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You will need a day pass for the rest.
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http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/09/02/allison/index_np.html

[rocktivity]

1. Walt Starr, your smoking gun has arrived.

guess I won't be needing this anymore.

Hands up who thinks this reporter has been sitting on this story for YEARS!!!!

:hi:
rocknation

[highnooner]

4. Bringing it on!

Between this, Barnes and Ruppert, the dogs are starting to come after Bush and Cheney. Are these stories any more credible than the SBV's? Really.

[Shadder]

12. Much more so

For starters these stories are coming from people who have nothing at all to gain by coming forward. And never mind the fact that they are very likely true. Don't let that get in the way.

[Dhalgren]

24. The Swift Bloat Liars are saying that the

official war record is untrue. Kerry's account of his service is in exact accord with his own crew members and the official records. The Swift Liars have been discredited completely.

The stories coming out by the people you listed are of 'lacuni' that neither bush nor the record can account for. The people coming forward were actual witnesses who were actually there. It is all the difference in the world, but to a large number of the dumbed-down bush supporters no amount of truth and evidence is enough if their 'god' says otherwise. Fucking sickening!

[TahitiNut]

45. Oh, so Linda Allison (a Republican) is connected to the Kerry campaign?

:eyes: I've read some really bizarre crap here (most of which reads "deleted" the next day) but equating this confirmation of DimSon's fraudulent 'service' to the SleazeBag Vats is the tops for my day.
:puke:

[TankLV]

46. Only if you consider DOCUMEN TED PROOF and 100% of witnesses who

contradict 100% of what bunkerboy claims

versus DOCUMENTED LIES from persons WHO WEREN'T EVEN THERE.

Other than these small facts, the SVB lies could be considered comparable to the truth I guess!

[bushwakker]

2. Ben Barnes will be on 60 Minutes

telling how he got AWOL into TANG. The very next day on the campaign stump Kerry should publicly challenge AWOL to tell us all why he missed a year in the guard. We have the facts and truth on our side. this will open up a whole can of worms about his drug use. Is it hardball? Yeah but the truth gives us the highground.

[Shadder]

6. I agree

Kerry needs to push this to the point where the media in forced to cover it and bring this out for all to see. I look at it more as the truth shall set us free.

[bushwakker]

18. the only way they cover it is if jk himself call awol out

the kerry camp needs to gather all the docs, all the affadavits, all the records and ll of bush's statements into a neat package for media comsumption. dot all i's - cross all t's. then have jk himself say that he didn't want to do it but the sbl's have forced his hand. the media loves the conflict and the ball will be in the b/c 04 court and they won't respond effectively. why? because the facts are real bad for them that's why and no amount of fox news spin can change the facts.

[Spazito]

43. The truth will come out because ethical people have had enough...

Kerry doesn't need to make this an issue, it will have it's own dynamics thanks to the Swifties acting in concert with bush and rove. It is called "blowback" and it is well deserved.

[City Lights]

54. Bingo.

I think this election will show us who is more powerful - the chimp's friends, or his enemies.

[Justice]

81. Well Said

that sums it up.

[KittyWampus]

86. Read Story About Neil's Ex-Wife. She Had To Move Out Of Texas

to NY after divorce because even though many Texans in their social circle sided with her and knew how awful the Bush family is... they are AFRAID to say anything.

It really is just like a mob boss family.

[In Truth We Trust]

42. YOU'RE DAMN RIGHT

Kick

[freesqueeze]

13. Barns on 60 minutes - GREAT

That is only fair. They should give as much time to this analysis of the truth about Mr. Bush as they gave to those baseless lies about Mr. Kerry.

[goclark]

88. The truth shall set us free!

[goclark]

89. The truth shall set us free!

[SKKY]

96. Hardball is fine with me. We need hardball...

...especially when it's backed by the truth.

[sniffa]

3. was this the atrios "heads up"?

[hang a left]

8. Yes it was.

I saw this posted in GD04 and felt it was too big to just leave there.

[stevedeshazer]

5. !

:kick:

[LiberalVoice]

7. kick

[Spazito]

9. Whoa!

Rove, this is what is called "blowback"! His and bush's support of the Swifties opened the door to the real scandal!

[slor]

10. Wow...do the day pass and read it!

It is the silver bullet we have been waiting for and will end political careers, if the press dares to release it.

[Disturbed]

14. Howard Dean

I don't think that J. Kerry has the guts to address this but am sure Howard would.

[slor]

22. This has nothing to do with Kerry's "guts"...

It is the media's job to get this out there. Kerry took care of any question regarding his "guts" when he typed the words: I request duty in Vietnam.

[redstateblues]

Howard Dean Was On Monday Night Football- Today Kerry Was

in a southern state state talking to the very vets that are supposed to be against him- Kerry doesn't have guts- that's utter bullshit

[JoFerret]

36. Kerry has plenty of what you call guts

He also has a whole load of other sterling qualities that match that courage and temper it with maturity. Let those with guts alone take the lead charge on this.

[Eloriel]

16. I can't access it

I've tried 3 times, and I get "What do you want in a bookstore" and nothing happens. Nothing I click on does anything, there isn't any more text, no other buttons, etc. I've turned off "block pop up ads" and everything.

Given the fact that I've tried (3 times!!), would someone PM me the damn thing?

Edited to add: Thank you to the sender; got it. Don't need more.

[Judi Lynn]

29. I think everyone's trying to get in there at once. Once you spend maybe 10

or 15 minutes waiting, you'll see it's worth it!

I think the part you're stuck with is the commercial you're supposed to witness BEFORE you can get to the article. It's going astoundingly slow. I've NEVER seen it operating like this before, and I've gone in several times when DU'ers found important articles.

You stick with the commercial, and eventually you'll see a "next" or something which will gradually appear and you'll be lead to the story.

Please don't miss this. It's pure cool, clear water to some of us who have been wandering in the desert too long!

[gasperc]

74. the guardian also has the same article

you don't need the pass

[SidDithers]

83. Link to Guardian...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/salon/0,14779,1295936,00.html

Sid

[donkeyotay]

90. the "Texas souffle"

Sorry, duplicate. See next.

[donkeyotay]

91. the "Texas souffle"

from the Guardian article:

"But then no one understood why he brought this young guy from Texas along. It was like, 'Who was this guy who comes in late and leaves early? And why would Jimmy Allison, who was so impressive, bring him on?'"

Reminded me of this article: George W. Bush's Lost Year in 1972 Alabama By Glynn Wilson

Bush also made an impression on the "Blue-Haired Platoon," a group of older Republican Women working for Blount. Behind his back they called him "the Texas soufflé," Archibald said, because he was "all puffed up and full of hot air."

http://www.southerner.net/blog/awolbush.html

[ezekiel333]

11. I think a wheel just fell off W's bus

First Ben Barnes and now this, I love it!

[yardwork]

15. Kick

This is an amazing article.

First-person accounts of W as a useless drunken lout and his mother as an evil bitch.

[Dhalgren]

17. Absolutely great article!

Damn, this thing has got to get out, and get out now!

[Carni]

19. YOWSER!

Hey is this Allison character the guy that owned the agricultural company that W supposedly traveled to South America to find plants and nurseries for?

I think maybe W was running drugs? Just a thought...

Edited for my bizarro world spelling.

[Judi Lynn]

32. Not sure about that, but Allison owned the newpaper in Midland, Texas

and he was the chairman of the Texas Republican Party, if I got my facts straight from the article.

Since _W didn't have anything real to do, it would have left him a LOT of time, wouldn't it? It's not as if he had used the time to do research, or go back to school, or do something helping people, God forbid.

[Carni]

78. Nope Allison wasn't W's boss at the agricultural company

You had that right and I was wrong.

Apparently a person by the last name of Gow owned the agricultural company that stupid went and aquired "tropical plants" for.

It would have been in 1971 right before his stint at project PULL.

I found all kinds of wild stuff on google including references to Barry Seal BTW apparently Seal started in the Alabama air national guard a few years before!

[Judi Lynn]

82. Now you're going to scare us! Barry Seal!

I heard he kept George H. W. Bush's personal home phone number with him, once. It's so wierd that all of these absolute villains are placed completely all around the _Bushes but we're supposed to believe they are devout, prayerful Christians.

Ain't they cute?

[hang a left]

85. I hate that picture of *.

It is just downright spooky.

[havocmom]

20. sent Walt Starr a heads up in case he hasn't seen this little gem

too good to risk missing

and a :kick: cuz it is just too damned delicious.

Has anyone sent it to Jon Stewart? How about Nightline?

[ikojo]

112. How about sending it to Howard Stern so he

can talk about it next week when he returns from vacation?

A woman at work has had her mind changed ONLY because she listens to Howard EVERY DAY.

[merh]

21. God Bless you Linda Allison and may your husband Jimmy

be at peace! Thank God someone has come forth with the truth!

Urinating on a car, so *ey! Just as he urinates on our nation!

God love you Linda Allison -- :yourock:

[Kukesa]

23. Big Kick! n/t

[Disturbed]

26. I agree J. Kerry "had" guts.

No dispute on his courage re: Vietnam. As of late I feel that he has been appeasing to garner the "undecideds", &/or swing voters. I am still chagrined with his stance re: Iraq. I hope that I am incorrect about my suspicions about him being a tool of the Plutocacy. I am wiling to be persuaded otherwise.

[JoFerret]

39. He wants to be, and we want him to be,

President. He has to do whatever that takes.

[mainer]

25. This part says it all...

"Leaving the election-night "celebration," Allison remembers encountering George W. Bush in the parking lot, urinating on a car, and hearing later about how he'd yelled obscenities at police officers that night. Bush left a house he'd rented in Montgomery trashed -- the furniture broken, walls damaged and a chandelier destroyed, the Birmingham News reported in February. "He was just a rich kid who had no respect for other people's possessions," Mary Smith, a member of the family who rented the house, told the newspaper, adding that a bill sent to Bush for repairs was never paid."

[Iceburg]

63. And Americans wonder why the rest of the world shows

nothing but contempt for their CIC.

[RedEarth]

65. "Bush in the parking lot, urinating on a car,"......radcon family values

[truth2power]

100. This behavior, and more,

described in the article, meets the diagnostic criteria for anti-social personality disorder.

More evidence that the Chimp is a sociopath.

[hadrons]

27. I read that Kitty Kelly has the paper trail on Dumbya's 1972

[chromotone]

77. 1972...

The impression I had was that 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...

Hmmmm...

Wasn't that the year according to the late J. H. Hatfield that George W was arrested for cocaine and ordered to perform community service at a Houston community center?
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/10/18/cocaine/

It's funny how "1972" keeps popping up in George's background...

[liberalcanuck]

Kick!

:kick:

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

28. One of the top 10 pieces I've seen posted here! IMPORTANT TO READ!!!!

We need to blitz the media with this article. Says it all so well.

[redstateblues]

30. Why Does Linda Allison Hate America?

It's amazing that so many of the people that have known and worked with the Bushes are liars.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

33. For our freedom, Grasshopper.

She also hates Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, The Bahamas....

[EST]

31. So this bastard can't run for president, right?

After all, he is a deserter. I mean, damn! All that shit we've been saying and pounding on, dishonor in high places, that lousy piece of lying shit, the senior douche, is guilty of some nasty stuff, ain't he? This is what media blaster is for!

[Judi Lynn]

34. I found the part describing a first person witnessed account of W, at 26,

riding his bike so slowly back and forth in front of his mom's car, as she tried to drive, so slowly that he had to put down his foot to keep from tipping over, just to get on her nerves to be unbelievably odd.

ODD, you hear? TWENTY SIX YEARS OLD. Still attached to Mommy. Throwing a tiny tantrum when she did something he didn't like. In front of her friend.

Creepy man. Good to know this jackass is squatting in the White House.

[ezekiel333]

35. Stage Zero by Carol Norris sums him up

<http://www.counterpunch.org/norris09202003.html>

[Judi Lynn]

40. I just scanned it as a preliminary step, as I have to come back later

to read this article, as I've got to be away for hours.

As far as I saw, getting down to "Stage Zero." This will be an excellent article.

I've often wondered why more people don't mention the fact you can see some deep problems in this guy at the direct level. He's sick.

Thanks for posting this link. Gives those of us who didn't see it when it was published some really important food for thought.

Also, Welcome to DU! :hi: :hi: :hi:

[ezekiel333]

44. Thanks

And yes, he is indeed sick.

[realcountrymusic]

38. for a regular "mommy," yes, but somehow Barbara comes off as . . .

the kind of "Mommy Dearest" reptile who deserved that kind of treatment from her son.

Jesus, what a stain this family is on the land. I don't which one is more hideous than the others. But overall, Barbara "my beautiful mind" Bush comes across as the scariest.

RCM

[Chelsea Patriot]

70. Don't Malign Joan Crawford.....

By comparing her to that ugly,hate filled Brood Bitch of Satan!!

We must purge our country of this Evil, Traitorous Family!

[JoFerret]

41. I have always thought him to be the true son

of his mother. She is/was also mean-spirited. He does not emulate his dad (although they have many ill traits in common. It is mother who is the key to his psyche. She of the "lets not speak to so-and so on the school bus" in eigth grade.(anecdote reported in a New Yorker profile lo these many years.

[EST]

37. Kick this rascal.

This is the hottest news of the day!

[Catherine Vincent]

47. It's too bad this story had to break in Salon.

Remember how the "Liberal" media lambasted them for reporting on Henry Hyde's indiscretions.

[EST]

48. Salon is quoted a lot on CSPAN

n/t

[psychopomp]

49. KICK

[merh]

50. kick

[candy331]

51. Seems like someone one should have told the Christian Bush

that God talks to, that he "hates liars" and said the "truth will come to the light even if hid under a measuring basket".

[candy331]

52. Seems like someone one should have told the Christian Bush

that God talks to, that he "hates liars" and said the "truth will come to the light even if hid under a measuring basket".

[Oilwellian]

53. DU MUST get together in DC on January 20th

I soooooooo want to join fellow DU'ers and do the moonwalk down Constitution Avenue while there celebrating Kerry's inauguration. Put a fork in Chimpy. He's done. This article is chocked full of eyewitnesses to Bush's "troubling" behavior, particularly dear Mrs. Allison who shows us there are still decent republicans with a conscience. Rove has made a huge tactical error. :D

[JDPriestly]

55. By their fruits, ye shall know them.

The "Bushies" don't seem to realize what a dysfunctional family they are and how abnormal Bush's behavior was when he was in his early 20's. Apparently, he was so emotionally immature as to have been emotionally disabled. They should be embarrassed to be putting themselves forward in public.

I have two daughters in their mid to late twenties. We talk almost every day and have a wonderful family relationship. I trust them completely, and I know they love me. I feel the same way toward my own mom.

When I saw the twins at the Convention, it seemed to me that the only lines they could deliver authentically, as if they believed them and felt them in their hearts, expressed hostility and disappointment in their parents. How sick! Those girls would have been better off having parents who were emotionally capable of loving them than having all that money and social standing.

Compare Kerry's daughters. They have character -- good souls. They are whole. Just like their dad. I bet their mom is a wonderful person also. The apple does not fall far from the tree.

[Turanga Leela]

56. A kick for the night owls...

:kick:

[Judi Lynn]

60. An Oaf of Office moonwalk for night owls!

[lumpy]

57. Kudos to Salon for this

revealing article concerning the most unqualified corrupted president this country has ever had the misfortune to experience. Never again. We must be vigilant.

[nolabels]

58. Just like everything else the Corporate Media will never fess up

I am kind of thinking the owners of these companies like it this way. They never have to worry about being second guessed. They can mostly can do as they please as long as keep the handler Karl happy.

Pickles says that it is not fair that everybody picks on her husband :cry: The thing is this is not some 9 to 5 job and he is supposed to take responsibility which obviously he never did.

Of the things that I do believe is that when the daughters tell of who really wore the pants I get it. What a cruel hoax that has been played. Anyone trying to get any of these folks into understanding what shame is need not waste their time.

[flordehinojos]

59. Good expose on the bushes, but no surprise here guys. Don't we all know

the the bushes lie through their teeth, that they don't give a darn about anything except about their own selves? maybe cancer so soon after he was ousted by the bushes was allison's way of grieving what he may have not been able to put in words. these bushes are a bunch of nature-holes and the twins proved that the night they spoke. we should all be so sick of them--instead i feel sick watching the adulation these republicans have invested on such an unworthy family. it ain't georgie who is running the show. it is his poppy.

[cthrumatrix]

62. singing to the choir...and so true

[leftchick]

61. The photo is very creepy.....eewww!

Contrast and Compare America...

bush* = spoiled loser bailed out by poopy his whole life

John Kerry = A WAR HERO showing Courage, Strength, Honesty, Responsiblity.....

<snip>While Kerry earned a Silver Star and a Bronze Star after saving a crewmate's life under fire on the Mekong River in Vietnam, by contrast, the Georgie that Allison knew was a young man whose parents did not allow him to live with the consequences of his own mistakes. His powerful father -- whom the son seemed to both idolize and resent -- was a lifeline for Bush out of predicaments. After Bush graduated from Yale in 1968, his slot in the Texas Air National Guard allowed him to avoid active duty service in Vietnam. The former speaker of the Texas state House, Democrat Ben Barnes, now admits he pulled strings to get Bush his coveted guard slot, and says he's "ashamed" of the deed. "60 Minutes" will air an interview with Barnes next Wednesday, but George H.W. Bush denounced Barnes' claims in an interview aired on CBS. "They keep saying that and it's a lie, a total lie. Nobody's come up with any evidence, and yet it's repeated all the time," the former president said, in what could just as well describe the playbook for the Swift Boat Veterans ads.

Yet, after receiving unusual permission to transfer to the Alabama Guard from Texas, Bush has produced no evidence he showed up for service for anything other than a dental exam. Later, Bush would trade on his father's connections to enter the oil business, and when his ventures failed, trade on more connections to find investors to bail him out. Linda Allison's story fills in the details about a missing chapter in the story of how George Bush Sr.'s friends helped his wastrel son. The Bush campaign, decamped to New York for the convention, did not return a phone call by late Wednesday.

This last line is Pricelss...

<snip>
Linda Allison watches it all from her New York apartment. About George W. Bush's disputed sojourn in Alabama, she asks simply: "Can we all be lying?"


... Indeed Linda!

[ezekiel333]

64. Kick

[Ripley]

66. Babs looks like the actor from The Bird Cage..

Not Robin Williams, the other guy...can't remember his name right now.

She must have been born looking like that...never changes!

[Chelsea Patriot]

73. Diane Arbus photographed The Bush Family?

[unfrigginreal]

75. Jeez, did they purposely do the Addams Family pose?

[SidDithers]

84. They're creepy and they're kooky....

Mysterious and spooky,
They're all together ooky,
The George Bush Family...

Sid

[leftchick]

92. LOL.. that is exactly what I thought....

chimpy* makes a great puggsley!

[RaRa]

67. Read this last night and it confirmed everything I think of *

God, he's such typical spoiled rich brat who's taken credit for anything and accountability for nothing. Some day our kids or grandkids will look back at this age and just wonder what the hell happened to this country that so many people were blinded by this true Emperor with no clothes. Just like we all do now over the Nazis. Maybe * does have to be elected to 4 more years for this country to sink to the bottom so that we can at last start going up. I hope not, but I keep thinking how far do we have to sink for people to wake up to the fact the the Republicans are mindless assholes who don't give a shit about anybody but themselves? Everytime I ask myself how bad do things have to get, they get a little worse. It must be a pendulum that will eventually swing back to sanity. I just hope it's sooner rather than later.

[Ripley]

68. Man, is that a damning story or what??????

W urinating on cars.
Poppy being embarassed Babs didn't give them an Xmas gift, so he runs to the wet bar and hands them a moldy bottle of Mai Tai he said was from China?

These people are monsters, selfish, rude, destructive monsters.

[johnfunk]

79. it would be damning if the so-called liberal media...

... would do their job and pick it up. So far, only The Guardian has picked it up.

You know what to do.

Call your local paper, call CNN, call MSNBC (this is a job for Keith Olbermann). I have

[RedEarth]

69. DRUNK BUSH VIDEO CLIP....if you haven't seen it go to this link

If George W. Bush ends up in the White House, The Smoking Gun would like to be the first web outfit to formally offer Dubya an artifact for his future presidential library. The Republican's wacky performance in this 1992 wedding video excerpt--shot years after Bush went cold turkey in July 1986--needs to be preserved for future generations.
The video was shot at the August 29, 1992 wedding of Jamie Weiss, the daughter of Dubya's close friends Mike and Nancy Weiss. Mike, a Lubbock, Texas lawyer and CPA, was Bush's campaign chairman during his first political race (an unsuccessful 1978 congressional bid) and was one of the Texas governor's earliest political appointments. Nancy, also a Bush appointee, had a prime speaking slot on the final night of the Republican convention. She told the crowd, "I wish you could see how he reaches out to people, teasing those who can take it and protecting those who can't."

Indeed, what a teaser!

When cameraman T. Patrick Murray filmed Bush during the wedding reception at a Lubbock country club, the future governor took some rambling--and we presume good-natured--swipes at the newlyweds, the bride's parents, and her brother Kelly (Bush was being quizzed by a member of the bridal party). We love the part where teetotaler George actually disses two of the Weisses for supposedly not drinking or smoking. And as for those weird Don King-like "only in America" cracks--not to mention what's in that glass--your guess is as good as TSG's.


http://www.thesmokinggun.com/bush/bush.html

[flowerpower]

99. Clip

...just watched it. I thought it was actually humorous. Damning? Come on. Give me something more.

[shanti]

102. you're a female

from "berkley" with the nomiker "flowerpower"....suuuuuure. :eyes:

[RedEarth]

105. My thought as well....

The main issue with the clip(freepers don't want to admit it) is that george said he quit drinking in 86 and this clip is from 92....sounds like george is a liar to me.

[SammyWinstonJack]

104. Not surprising

:eyes:

[redqueen]

71. Damn liberal media, talking 24/7 about drunk bush pissing on cars

have they no shame?

/sarcasm

:grr:

[Kolesar]

72. So what? George got drunk and pissed on car tires

We have one more eyewitness account of someone who never knew that Bush was supposed to be serving in the ANG.

"Allison's account corroborates a Washington Post investigation in February that found no credible witnesses to the service in the Alabama National Guard that Bush maintains he performed, despite a lack of documentary evidence. Asked if she'd ever seen Bush in a uniform, Allison said: "Good lord, no. I had no idea that the National Guard was involved in his life in any way." "

This is not a smoking gun. What we need is someone in the ANG to say he was AWOL. This account is not going to win the election for John Kerry.

[Bandit]

97. Maybe...Maybe not...Drip..Drip..Drip..Drip..Drip

It sure as hell can't hurt our cause.

[Ilsa]

76. Wow! What a bitch Bar is!

She treated the Allison's so coldly calling them only "political acquaintances" when JA was GHWB's friend.

What a hell-raiser Bush was. He got off really light.

[johnfunk]

80. The REAL reason Bush Boy would be such a liability to Poppy...

... might well be that Junior caused an abortion (as I was reminded in another thread by Bleachers7, Papau and Librechik) -- so Bush Daddy exiled Junior to be baby-sat in Alabammy, National Guard be damned, while his pals "fixed" the problem back in Texas.

[SoCalDem]

87. He was also once engaged (in the paper and everything) to a

Jewish girl.. I think Babs & Poppy put the kibosh on it and that may have been what set him off.. Look at the trouble in the UK that resulted from Charles not being able to marry Camilla when they were both 19 or 20..

I also think that the "halted flying status" might have been from someone ratting him out on his using TANG planes to "ferry tropical plants" from Acola Fla to the "agricultural company" in Texas.. I would imagine that the military would frown on that..one of his MANY pals (all invisible) dropped a dime on him.. He was quoted as saying that he took his brother with him sometimes...

How many "plants" would even fit into the kind of plane that he supposedly flew???.

His pal Bath probably did the same and they both got busted..

What if those "plants" were found to be something more than decorative plants, and they were busted for ferrying drugs instead...??

[ezekiel333]

93. Hey W can we get your autograph?

Just sign right here:
<http://democrats.com/display.cfm?id=340>

[0007]

94. A very good article

A Keeper for sure.

" Barbara Bush tells USA
Today: "I die over every untruth that I hear about George -- I mean, every one."



"There was a wet bar in the hall on the
way to the front door. He grabbed this moldy bottle of Mai Tai that he said had been given to him
by the president of China, and he said we just had to have it. Then he plucked this ostrich egg in a
beaded bag from a shelf that he said had been given to him by the ambassador to the U.N. from
Nigeria or someplace, and gave it to us. Can you imagine how embarrassing that was?"


This is a must read.
Get your day pass and read it!

[merh]

95. yes, babs is such a sweet ole fart -- NOT!

this is a must read and share with all!

[Iceburg]

98. A kick from the Canadians ...

This article is a must read... now I understand the Bushman's reluctance to embrace the theory of evolution -- his own arrested development (in the age 10 years and under set) left him speechless but still able to piss on cars in public and trash the neighbors' house.

Could THIS be the reason the world hates "America's freedom"?

[Dover]

101. So the National Guard was a well paid BABYSITTER for little Dubya

He's embarrassed us too and become a HUGE liability for this country.

[Iceburg]

103. Kick for the afternoon crowd

[EST]

106. Anyone seen

anything about this on "major" media? Of course, it's very difficult for any issue to blow down the sucking up going on at GOP.

[Willy Mugobeer]

107. A sample LTE...

...that I'm still working on, but here's the draft.

And if you need links for any of these stories, just head on over to http://www.awolbush.com ...


Editor,

Given all the recent smearing of John Kerry's military service in Vietnam, it might be appropriate to take a fresh look at the details of George Bush's service during that same time period. Recently, it has come to light that:

1) Despite frequent Bush denials that political connections landed him a coveted pilot slot in the Texas Air National Guard, former TX Lieutenant Governor Ben Barnes is now coming forward to say he did exactly that - at the request of Sid Adger, a Bush family friend.

2) Researchers have discovered that George Bush was photographed in his uniform wearing a ribbon (the Air Force Outstanding Unit Award) that he never earned - a photograph that is still displayed on his father's presidential library web site.

3) Linda Allison, former Bush family friend and widow of the man George W. Bush worked for on that campaign in Alabama, was recently asked if either she or her husband ever saw Bush perform any Guard duty in Alabama. Her response? "Good lord, no."

4) The Justice Department has recently told the Associated Press that there are no more of Bush's military records to release - meaning that a full year of Bush's purported "service" remains completely unaccounted for. This, in a military bureaucracy well-known for reams and reams of administrative paperwork to keep track of its personnel and their service.

5) An independent investigator (Paul Lukasiak) recently looked into the period after Bush was suspended as a pilot, and has found that the Air Force classified Bush as a "non-locatee" - which should have

For Republicans - like George "AWOL" Bush and Dick "Five Student Deferments" Cheney - to assail John Kerry's war records seems like a new height for Republican hypocrisy. Shame on them.

[sub.theory]

108. Nope, haven't seen anything at all

We are obviously going to have to do all the work on getting this story out (...again! :eyes:). The corporate whore media won't ever do it. They love the Chimp.

[0007]

109. I'm sending the story to the editor of the OdessaAmerican

Newspaper.

[Iceburg]

111. Kick for the night crowd

[RedEarth]

110. I posted this on a radcon board and for some reason they didn't like it

:evilgrin: