Bush's partial history

[cayanne]

"Stringent military screening program may explain gaps on president's record"

http://www.spokesmanreview.com/breaking-news-story.asp?submitDate=200431401040

Poor George...he's got more questions to answer for. According to todays article, a previous disclosed document obtained by the Spokane Spokesman-Review, Bush's pilot code was among those covered by the Human Reliability Program. This program may have been used to stop Bush from flying Texas Air National Guard jets in 1972.

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Military rules used in 1974 to ground two Washington Air National Guard airmen with access to nuclear weapons also applied to a Texas Air National Guard unit where Lt. George W. Bush was a fighter pilot.

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The Boston Globe, on the forefront of the issue, reported Feb. 12 that Bush's acknowledged 1972 suspension from flight status for failing to take a required physical should have generated an investigation and subsequent trail of documents, which have not been found.
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A second previously unreleased document obtained by the newspaper, a declassified Air Force Inspector General's report on the Washington case, states that human reliability rules applied to all Air National Guard units in the 1970s. From 1968 to 1973, Bush was assigned to the 111th Fighter Interceptor Squadron at Ellington Air Force Base in Houston.

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‘‘The Human Reliability Program, in a nutshell, applied to every U.S. Air Force and Air Guard pilot in any aircraft they would fly,” said Marty Isham, a former Air Force briefing officer.
But if the human reliability rules were invoked, as they were in thousands of other cases, Bush may not have voluntarily stopped flying.
There is no mention of the Human Reliability Program in the documents released by the White House.

"James Hogan, a records coordinator at the Pentagon, said senior Defense Department officials had directed the National Guard Bureau not to respond to questions about Bush's military records."

Air Defense Command


There's a lot more to read in the article.

[Catshrink]

1. Wow! That's a lot to absorb in one reading.

A lot of it we've seen before, but this Human Reliability Report is new to me. Very interesting and very damning. More than anything else, it shows the Bushies deliberatly obfuscating military records.

Jr is toast.

[dArKeR]

2. Junior aWol never flew a jet solo. I stick to my gut feeling until proven

otherwise!

[Bozvotros]

3. Wow...

Lots of great stuff there. Would make great reading for a doubter on this subject. I liked the mention that those defending him are people that Bush promoted, hired or who were involved in his bogus admissions and promotions. Best of all is the new revelation that he was considered unfit to handle nuclear weapons in the Human Reliability Program. Clearly as a lying, prevaricating, drug addled SOB, he remains unfit. Can the HRP provisions be invoked now?

[pfitz59]

4. Missing a Flight Physical is cause to lose one's wings!

In Navy its called: FNAB ("fee-nab") Fleet Naval Aviator Evaluation Board. Should have convened within a month or so of missed physical. Where's Shrubbie's?

[Fight_n_back]

5. If he couldn't be trusted with Nukes then?

why shgould we trust him with such a HUGE amount of nukes now?

[grasswire]

6. fabulous, courageous reporting

I hope all of you will follow the links to "contact us" and send these two reporters some thanks and congratulations. They've done more to advance the story than anyone in Washington D.C.

[truthisfreedom]

7. the most fascinating result of this investigation so far is the blocking

of any freedom of information releases of bush's nat'l guard record... what is the whitehouse using to justify this eggregious violation of the law... some trumped-up national security issue?

oh... let's see if i've got this right... bushco considers it a breach of national security if he is removed from office by Kerry being elected. will that stick?

under these mafiosos, probably.