Help chickenhawk GW Bush find 1972, 1973 records scrubbed

[protect freedom impeach bush now]

http://www.talion.com/georgebush.html

News Release: Help George W. Bush find 1972, 1973

George Bush has lost a year of his youth and needs your help to find it.


Between May 1972 and October 1974 George W. Bush seems to have lost:

1) A year of his service in the Air National Guard (ANG)
2) His eligibility to fly F-102 jet fighters (See photocopy, footnote 1)
3) The directions to his military doctor's office
4) The means to travel to his punishment detail (2) to which he apparently never reported, although he claims to have served the final months of his enlistment there.

Lots of people didn't see George Bush, including retired General William Turnipseed (3) to whom young 1st Lt. Bush was ordered to report, and the commanders of the Texas Air National Guard Unit (4) in which he was supposedly serving. You can imagine how disturbing this must be to our unelected Commander-in-Chief — to have so thoroughly lost a year of his own military service (5) when he plans to ask young Americans to stick to the terms of their military enlistments so he can send them to Iraq.

In October, 2000 two different Vietnam veterans groups put up a total of $2000 in rewards for anyone who could find George W. Bush's missing year of National Guard service. (6) So far no one has claimed the reward.

But this was a long time ago. Any recent misbehavior?
— In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Mr. Bush leaned on his self-described experience as a fighter pilot to get himself elected governor of Texas. See archives for Austin Statesman and Houston Chronicle to read his embellishments about his service as a fighter pilot.

— In 1999, just prior to Mr. Bush's announcement that he planned to run for president, a record-scrubbing detail was dispatched to Camp Mabry to make sure records in the archives matched those in the autobiography published in 1999. (

— In 1999, during his presidential campaign, Mr. Bush produced an autobiography (7) containing several untruths about his military service. He bragged about volunteering to go to Vietnam (not true), tried to impress voters saying he was a fighter pilot and "continued to fly for several years" after training (not true), and asserted that his military training taught him to respect the chain of command.

— In 2000, reporters unearthed the facts and published them in the Washington Post, Boston Globe, AP wire service and other print media outlets — to howls from Bush's people that it was unfair and "unethical" to reveal facts just before the election. No television news programs covered the story until nearly a year after the election.

— In May 2003, George Bush showed up wearing a military pilot suit, for photo ops with real military pilots. Talking points distributed by Bush PR people encouraged national TV news to highlight his experience as a military pilot, without mentioning that Bush never flew a military mission and was absent without leave for many months.


It's frustrating: At least when you're looking for Waldo, you know he'll be somewhere in the picture. George Bush didn't seem to have been anywhere during his military years, but he seemed to be everywhere when photocopies of his military record appeared around election time. And in war time, he's in front of the camera, wearing a pilot suit.


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Scrubbing the Records

"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 GW's Presidential announcement. For most soldiers at Camp Mabry, this was a generally known event.

The archives were closely scrutinized to make sure that the Bush autobiography plans and the record did not directly contradict each other. In essence it was the script of the autobiography which Dan Bartlett and his small team used to scrub a file to be released. This effort was further involved by General Daniel James and Chief of Staff William W. Goodwin at Camp Mabry.

— Bill Burkett — contact: (915-673-xxxx)
Transcript of Bill Burkett interview
http://www.talion.com/georgebush.html#burkett

[Abe Linkman]

1. It was '72 when he was doing Community Serv. for the coke bust

Bush was busted in 1972, and Poppy was able to get it arranged for him to do community service in an inner-city (Houston) minority program in lieu of a trial. Bush apparently showed up a few times to do his community service. It isn't known whether this was something ordered by a judge, or if the DA simply made an agreement with the Bush family's lawyer, without the involvement of a judge.

The community service stuff may have been in late '72 or early '73.

[Ernesto]

3. Hey Abe!

That's my post! HA HA

[Ernesto]

2. What about the period of community service

that chimp did in that Texas ghetto? Maybe someone could explain why the moron was feeling soooo compassionate back then. Clue: the criminal justice system.

[jody]

4. Is the 72-73 period when Bush's girlfriend had an abortion? eom

[Abe Linkman]

5. You mean Robin Lowman (maiden name)? Yes

btw- she's now married to an FBI agent. She was underage at the time.
That's called ___. Yep, just like Arnold Schwarzenegger and the 16 year old HE had an affair with. Statutory rape.

[jody]

7. Boy, 72-73 was a busy time for AWOL. He S****** everbody! eom

[Abe Linkman]

6. Amazing how incurious the public is...& how they won't believe this or...

anything else that's uncomfortable, like U.S. support of attacks on U.S. property (Pearl Harbor, Gulf of Tonkin, 9-11 etc.).

So, there's really little for Democratic politicians to gain from bringing these matters to the public's attention (assuming they could get the media to allow them to). The non-reading, non-THINKING, wholly self-absorbed, escapist public isn't interested and won't buy.

So, Carter was right when he said we get the kind of government we deserve. btw- I know that Carter is no saint, either.