http://www.larryflynt.com/articles/deserterinchief.htmlDESERTER IN CHIEF: Did Bush Abandon His Post During 'Nam?
While George W. Bush has no problem sending U.S. soldiers to sacrifice
their lives in the Middle East, evidence suggests that America's
commander in chief was worse than a draft-dodging coward; in all
likelihood he was a wartime deserter. Greg Palast uncovers new
information on W.'s war-avoiding maneuvers and the subsequent coverup.
Ed Rampell explores Bush's 18-month absence from duty.
George Wins the Lotteries
by Greg Palast
The Bush family daisy chain of favors, friendship and finance goes way
back to Dubya's "War Years." Junior Bush was a fighter pilot during the
war in Vietnam; not in the United States Air Force, where one could get
seriously hurt, mind you, but in the Texas air force, known as the Texas
Air National Guard. Texas's toy army, an artifact of Civil War days, is
a favorite club for warmongers who are a bit squeamish about actual
combat. Membership excused these weekend warriors from the military
draft and the real shoot-'em-up in 'Nam.
During the war, Senator Prescott Bush and his son, Congressman George
Bush Sr., were more than happy to send other men's sons and grandsons to
Southeast Asia. However, there were not enough volunteers for this
suspect enterprise; so Congress created a kind of death lottery: If your
birth date was picked out of a hat, off to the army you went. But the
Air Guard flyboys were exempted from this macabre draft lotto.
When tested for the coveted Air Guard get-out, young George W. tested at
25 out of 100, one point above "too-dumb-to-fly" status, yet leaped
ahead of hundreds of applicants to get the Guard slot.
Now, how could that happen? Only recently could I get a glimmer of the
truth, a by-product of an Observer investigation of a New Jersey company
called GTech. This firm holds the contract for a far less deadly and far
more lucrative lottery operation than the one for the military draft:
the Texas State Lottery.
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