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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (416017)	6/17/2003 8:43:24 PM
From: jim-thompson	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

This is not humor. I think every owner of a business should be required to purchase a hummer.>> local6.com

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (416017)	6/17/2003 9:15:27 PM
From: Jerrel Peters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

The most believable account I read was as follows: Bush was an excellent pilot, but lost interest. In '72, he was asked to work for the campaign of Bush family friend Winton Blount, who was running for the U.S. Senate in Alabama. Bush requested a transfer to an Alabama Air National Guard unit with no planes and minimal duties. Bush's immediate superiors approved the transfer, but higher-ups said no. The matter was delayed for months. In August Bush missed his annual flight physical and was grounded. After the November election Bush returned to Texas, but apparently didn't notify his old Texas guard unit for quite a while. It was reported that he started putting in some serious duty time in May, June, and July of '73 to make up for what he'd missed. Even though his superiors knew he'd blown off his duties, they never disciplined him. (No one's ever been shot at dawn for missing a weekend guard drill.) When Bush decided to go to business school at Harvard in the fall of 1973, he requested and got an honorable discharge.