The Nation: Why W Really Left Texas

[Nbadan]

The mud just keeps on coming...

by Russ Baker

Growing evidence suggests that George W. Bush abruptly left his Texas Air National Guard unit in 1972 for substantive reasons pertaining to his inability to continue piloting a fighter jet.

A months-long investigation, which includes examination of hundreds of government-released do ents, interviews with former Guard members and officials, military experts and Bush associates, points toward the conclusion that Bush's personal behavior was causing alarm among his superior officers and would ultimately lead to his fleeing the state to avoid a physical exam he might have had difficulty passing. His failure to complete a physical exam became the official reason for his subsequent suspension from flying status.

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Even more significantly, in a July interview, Linda Allison, the widow of Jimmy Allison, the Alabama campaign manager and a close friend of Bush's father, revealed to me for the first time that Bush had come to Alabama not because the job had appeal or because his presence was required but because he needed to get out of Texas. "Well, you have to know Georgie," Allison said. "He really was a totally irresponsible person. Big George called Jimmy, and said, he's killing us in Houston, take him down there and let him work on that campaign......Allison said that the younger Bush's drinking problem was apparent. She also said that her husband, a cir spect man who did not gossip and held his cards closely, indicated to her that some use of drugs was involved. "I had the impression that he knew that Georgie was using pot, certainly, and perhaps cocaine," she said.

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It is notable that in 1972, the military was in the process of introducing widespread drug testing as part of the annual physical exams that pilots would undergo.....

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W has always maintained that he left Tx primarily to help out in the Alabama campaign. This article charges that W may have been having personal issues (*cough* coke *cough*) before he left Texas.

[Yonivore]

And it just keeps sliding off. Isn't that frustrating?

[Hook Dem]

The Dems accuse the Republicans of mud slinging and they just keep coming up with one ty accusation after another. Go figure. Is it desperation time? I think so.

[Yonivore]

I think we're way past desperation and into a kicking, screaming hissy fit.

[Tommy Duncan]

Now we know the real reason...

[NameDropper]

Dubya's drinking and drug habits in the past are no secret.

[Nbadan]

Dubya's drinking and drug habits in the past are no secret.

No your right, but I think it's disingenuous that many people give W as free pass because all of the sudden he is a 'born-again Christan" when he didn't afford the same luxury to Karla Fay Tucker.

[Tommy Duncan]

Um, she was convicted of murder and legally sentenced to die for her crime.

What exactly has Bush been convicted of?

Try again.

[Yonivore]

So, you're equating alleged drug use with proven capital murder? Nice.

[1369]

Karla Tucker was a convicted murderer who deserved the needle to pay for her cirmes.

[Nbadan]

What exactly has Bush been convicted of?

In God's eyes, murdering a Christian. That didn't count? Well then why should W's excuses count?

[Yonivore]

You want to stick with the secular world that we all live in, Nbadan?

[1369]

Dan, your arms have got to be sore from reaching so much...

[Tommy Duncan]

Oh, so Bush was never legally convicted of anything back in 1972?

Was Bush legally convicted of killing her? Um no, because that was a state action.

[Nbadan]

so Bush was never legally convicted of anything back in 1972?

That's because Daddy was always there to bail him out, just as he is today. W was involved in a serious car accident while he was still drinking. He could just as easily have killed someone, but as fate who have it, he was not to join the killed-someone-with-a-car club his wife belongs to.

[Tommy Duncan]

So Bush was not legally convicted of anything back in 1972?

[Nbadan]

Neither would Karla Fay Tucker if she had Bush41 standing behind her. , she would have been Govenator.

[Yonivore]

I'm beginning to thing Nbadanallah is just jealous of the President.

[Tommy Duncan]

So Bush was not legally convicted of anything back in 1972?

[Nbadan]

You mean besides moral cowardice?

[Tommy Duncan]

So Bush was not legally convicted of anything back in 1972?

[Nbadan]

I don't know. His records are missing. Sound familiar?

[Tommy Duncan]

So Bush was not legally convicted of anything back in 1972?

[Yonivore]

I find it amusing that Nbadanallah believes the Bush's have such control over the file systems of federal, state, and local governments.

[Nbadan]

It's not so far reaching when you consider that Daddy was in State government every step of the way.