Bush's Guard service: What the record shows

[Tinoire]

Bush's Guard service: What the record shows
By Walter V. Robinson, Globe Staff, 2/5/2004

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In an interview yesterday, Dan Bartlett, the White House communications director, asserted that Bush "fulfilled his military requirements." Bartlett acknowledged that Bush's "irregular civilian work schedule could have put strains on when he served, when he performed his duty."

Still, according to the records and interviews in 2000, Bush's attendance record in the Guard was highly unusual:

• Although he was trained as a fighter pilot, Bush ceased flying in April 1972, little more than two years after he finished flight school and two years before his six-year enlistment was to end, when he was allowed to transfer to an Alabama Air Guard unit. The records contain no evidence that Bush performed any military duty in Alabama. His Alabama unit commander, in an interview, said Bush never appeared for duty.
  
  
• In August 1972, Bush was suspended from flight status for failing to take his annual flight physical.
  
  
• In May 1973, Bush's two superior officers in Houston wrote that they could not perform his annual evaluation, because he had "not been observed at this unit" during the preceding 12 months. The two officers, one of them a friend of Bush and both now dead, wrote that they believed Bush had been fulfilling his commitment at the Alabama unit.
  
  Two other officers, in interviews, offered a similar account of Bush's absence, saying they had assumed Bush completed his service in Alabama.
  
  
• Bush's official record of service, which is supposed to contain an account of his duty attendance for each year of service, shows no such attendance after May 1972. In unit records, however, there are documents showing that Bush was ordered to a flurry of drills -- over 36 days -- in the late spring and summer of 1973. He was discharged Oct. 1, 1973, eight months before his six-year commitment ended.

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http://www.boston.com/news/politics/president/articles/2004/02/05/bushs_guard_service_what_the_record_shows/

[mhr]

1. Pretty Clear, He Did Not Show Up For A Year!

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[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Junior got special treatment from the word GO

[JasonDeter]

3. George Bush can easily answer the AWOL question

I sent these questions to the media listed, YOU SEND THEM TOO! george* needs to come clean and its not that hard for him to do it!!

Supply any or all of these records:

1) Attendance records from the Guard.

2) Pay Records from Uncle Sam.

3) Retirement Points. If the President attended drill he would have received retirement points for those drill dates.

4) Income Tax Records. The AL National Guard or the TX National Guard, if it were paying him, would have reported this income to the IRS, along with any withholding it kept from these paychecks.

Its very easy for George Bush to put this baby to sleep IF he's innocent of being AWOL.

Contact these folk and ask them to ask george*!

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Info was gleaned from this site:
http://philcarter.blogspot.com/2004_02_01_philcarter_archive.html#107591570333210255

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[Robb]

4. kick and a

:toast: to the Globe! :)

My favorite: Bush's "...irregular civilian work schedule could have put strains on when he served, when he performed his duty."

I don't recall one could make one's own decisions about that sort of thing.

[TacticalPeek]

6. I heartily recommend that NG's forthwith advise their Top Sargent

that his pesky drills interfere with their "irregular civilian work schedule".
Guaranteed Purple Heart.

:evilgrin:

[Octafish]

5. AWOL ... Bush, Bath, bin Laden... 9-11.

Somewhere on my hard drive there's a nice document that shows George W Bush and James R Bath served, um, got grounded in the TANG together. The same Bath would later become the US business manager for the House of bin Laden. Bin Laden and his brother-in-law meant millions to W and all the energy companies he ran into the ground of Texas.

Should the AWOL truth get out, the Little Turd from Crawford will end up moving to Leavenworth. Those who don't know what I refer to, please GOOGLE "James R Bath" + bin Laden + bin Mahfouz + and HARKEN. Throw in BCCI for good measure, and you'll see why they don't want to race against my horse come November. Bush and the rest of the BFEE will look mighty fine in jail jumpsuit orange.

Here's some news about what I'm talking about:

Arms Group Heads for Lisbon

Directors of one of the world’s largest armament companies are planning on meeting in Lisbon in three weeks time. The American based Carlyle Group is heavily involved in supplying arms to the Coalition forces fighting in the Iraqi war.

SNIP...

The financial assets of the Saudi Binladen Corporation (SBC) are also managed by the Carlyle Group. The SBC is headed up by members of Osama bin Laden’s family, who played a principle role in helping George W. Bush win petroleum concessions from Bahrain when he was head of the Texan oil company, Harken Energy Corporation - a deal that was to make the Bush family millions of dollars. Salem, Osama bin Laden’s brother, was represented on Harken’s board of directors by his American agent, James R. Bath.

The connection between the Bush and bin Laden families can also be traced to the collapse of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) in the 1990s. Members of the Anglo Pakistani bank’s board of directors included Richard Helms and William Casey, business partners of George Bush senior and former CIA agents. During their time at BCCI both Helms and Casey worked alongside fellow director, Adnan Khasshoggi, who also represented the bin Laden family’s interests in the US.

The Portugal News has been told by a reliable source that the Carlyle Group meeting in Lisbon will discuss the relationship between the Saudi Binladen Corporation (SBC) and Osama bin Laden. Many US officials claim that the SBC continues to finance his political activities, and has done so for many years. If true, this would place George Bush senior and his colleagues at the Carlyle Group in an embarrassing position. As managers of SBC’s financial investments they might well be accused of indirectly aiding and abetting the United States’ number one enemy.

© 2003 the-news.net

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=04/02/05/8611470

[starroute]

8. James Bath, Sid Adger, money-laundering, the CIA, and S&L fraud

Bush Jr. was able to get into the Texas Air National Guard in 1968 because Houston businessman Sidney A. Adger, a good friend of his father's, asked the speaker of the Texas legislature to intervene on his behalf. His guard unit included other sons of the rich and powerful, such as Lloyd Bentsen III, John Connally III, John Tower's son, and Adger's own two sons (not to mention seven members of the Dallas Cowboys.)

The names of Adger, his sons, and their friends and business associates come up repeatedly in connection with two things -- Houston real estate development and the 1980's savings and loan scandals -- and are also mentioned more doubtfully in connection with the CIA and organized crime.

For example, one son, John Adger, was the partner of a Houston developer named Robert Corson, who was said to have been involved in money-laundering for the CIA and who got in trouble for savings-and-loan fraud. He was found dead in 1992 under suspicious circumstances.

James Bath was introduced into these same Houston business circles by a man named Sidney Trotter (who was the business partner of a fraternity brother of Adger's other son.) A resume of Bath's gives both Trotter and Sidney Adger as references.

Lan Bentsen, son of Senator Lloyd Bentsen, was another real estate developer who became implicated in the S&L scandals. He and Bath were involved together in business dealings with Sidney Trotter.

Most of what is written about Bath involves his Saudi connections, but these Houston business associations may just as significant. At the very least, it is clear that several figures involved with Bush or his National Guard unit went on to be involved in highly questionable activities.



On edit: I just found some more about Bath and Lan Bentsen in an article from 1991 at http://www.krigskronikan.com/arkiv/bcci/Time%20Magazine%20-%20b28%20-%20A%20Mysterious%20Mover%20of%20Money%20and%20Planes--Bath%20-%20October%2028,%201991.html

"Bath's penchant for secrecy has been frustrated by a feud with a former business partner, Bill White, who claims that Bath was a front man for CIA business operations. White contends that Bath has used his connections to the Bush family and Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen to cloak the development of a lucrative array of offshore companies designed to move money and airplanes between the Middle East and Texas. White, an Annapolis graduate and former Navy fighter pilot, claims it was Bentsen's son Lan who suggested that White go into the real estate development business with Bath, a former Air Force fighter pilot.

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"Bath got his start in real estate in 1973 by forming a partnership with Lan Bentsen. One purpose, sources tell TIME, was to find investments for the Senator's blind trust. Bath and Bentsen have said they have not been partners for years, but secretaries at Bath's office still answer the phone with a cheery 'Bath Bentsen Interests.' Bath says he simply hasn't got around to changing the name of his company."

[grasswire]

9. and Bath and Bush...

...both had their drivers records concealed (and any criminal charges) by getting their DL numbers changed to new numbers after George became governor. Why? The action was irregular.

[kath]

10. Wait a minute -- I knew that W had his driver's license # changed,

but I never heard that Bath had his changed too. Do you have a link?

[TacticalPeek]

12. Veddy interestink. Veddddy, veddy. Faseenateenk.

It would be great to have a link or ref.

I can't imagine why this about Bath makes me think of this other thread (or vice versa, actually), where an Arab reporter tells Bryan Lamb this am that there were other families on the Flight 913 Express:

On C-Span, Brian Lamb's interview with a Saudi reporter -- bombshell?


All this 'families' thing, like out of The Godfather or Shakespeare.

[Zhade]

7. Corporate media is still playing fast and loose with the facts...

Although he was trained as a fighter pilot, Bush ceased flying in April 1972, little more than two years after he finished flight school and two years before his six-year enlistment was to end, when he was allowed to transfer to an Alabama Air Guard unit.

According to the record, b*sh's request was turned down.

[Karenina]

11. Kick butt!!!

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