A FYI - Any Researchers - Bush/National Guard

[TNOE]

If this has been discovered and discussed before - Mods please lock. Don't have time to catch up on all the reading.

The below is taken from THIS article (which I know is old, but didn't see a date on it) - See footnotes.


http://www.beachnet.com/~hoffman/Bush.html


Like father, like son, former Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives testified under oath that he was contacted by Houston businessman “Sid Adger and asked to recommend George W. Bush, Jr. for a pilot position with the Air National Guard,” and that he called General James Rose and “did so.”<20>

Yet Bush, Jr. our current Commander-in-Chief, reportedly never even bothered showing up for drills. General William Turnipseed and his aide Kenneth Lott both flatly deny that Bush ever appeared for duty—a violation of the Texas Code of Military Justice (a State Statute and a version of the U.S. Code of Military Justice)—a court martial offense.<21>

Neither did our chief flag-waver appear for his training at the 187th Tactical Recon Group at Dannelly ANG Base in Alabama.<22>

Bill Burkett, a former Lieutenant Colonel in the Guard, said, “As the State Plans Officer for the Texas National Guard, I was on full-time duty at Camp Mabry when Dan Bartlett was cleansing the George W. Bush file prior to G.W.’s presidential announcement.... The archives were closely scrutinized to make sure that the Bush autobiography plans and the record did not directly contradict each other.”<23>

Government documents do note, however, that Jr.’s flying privlidges were suspended for failure to take his annual medical exam, even though he stated that he was perfectly healthy. Michael Dannenhauer, former Chief of Staff to the elder Bush, states that Jr.’s cocaine and alcohol habit was “out of control” and that he experienced “lost weekends in Mexico” during that time.<24> This is not surprising, considering that Jr. would offer free beer to college students to garner their votes during his 1987 congressional race.<25>

When it was time to leave the National Guard, the prodigal son and future President received an honorable discharge.

<19>. George Bush with Victor Gold, Looking Forward (New York, NY: Doubleday, 1987), pp. 36-39, quoted in Bowen, Op. Cit., pp. 15-16.
<20>. Dallas Morning News, 9/28/99; Dallas Morning News, 10/30/99.
<21>. The Boston Globe, 5/23/00.
<22>. Martin Heldt, “Isikoff manages to make gone with 9 of the 12 months G.W. Bush was missing from Air Guard duty,” On-Line Journal, 7/13/00.
<23>. Linda L. Starr and Bev Conove, “Former National Guard officer says Bush aide scrubbed military records,” On-Line Journal, 11/4/00. “This effort was further involved by General Daniel James and Chief of Staff William W. Goodwin at Camp Mabry,” said Burkett.
<24>. “Texas National Air Guard grounded George W. for failure to take medical exam,” On-Line Journal, 2/7/00.
<25>. According to Patricia Kilday Hart’s article on Dubya, he came under attack in the University Daily, a Texas Tech newspaper, for promising free beer at a campaign rally. Linda Starr, “Despite Yale diploma, George W. was rejected by U of Texas Law School,” 10/12/99, cited in On-Line Journal.

[AmandaRuth]

1. yes - i heard a female reThug shill on the radio

this morning, saying over and over, it is absolute truth that poppy never called on behalf of boosh, and it went unchallenged. The real truth is they had a friend call for them, it is on the record. It's all deception, twist, spin, lie, distract, avert, and ridicule any time a rethug speaks.