To: i-node who wrote (201739 ) 9/13/2004 2:29:41 AM From: tejek Read Replies (1) | Respond to George W. Bush’s records raise more questions than they answer Even more disquieting is what we know. We know now that there were certified Air Force flight surgeons assigned to Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery at the time when Bush was living in Montgomery, Alabama, where Maxwell is located. This means that Bush lied to us when he claimed that he could not take the drug test in Alabama because his personal doctor was in Houston–only certified flight surgeons were qualified to administer the test. But we know now that Bush’s excuse for his abandoning flying the F-102 was false, that his group was still flying F-102’s for a year after he left the service. We learned from his commander, Major General Bobby W. Hodges, that ''If [Bush] had come back to Houston, I would have kept him flying the 102 until he got out. But I don't recall him coming back at all.'' Bush’s superior officers had believed that Bush was still in Alabama, but we now know that Bush had temporary orders to be in Alabama only for the months of September, October and November of 1972. And again, we have the word of retired General William Turnipseed who stepped forward to say ''Had he reported in, I would have had some recall, and I do not. I had been in Texas, done my flight training there. If we had had a first lieutenant from Texas, I would have remembered.'' For some reason there is an extra five months and twenty-four days tacked onto to Bush’s normal six-year commitment. As we have come to expect when dealing with Bush’s records, there is no explanation given for the discrepancy. We know that the former lieutenant governor and speaker of the Texas House of Representatives testified under oath that he helped Bush get a special slot in the Texas Air National Guard. We know that Bush had none of the normal experience to be a pilot and that his test scores were minimal. We know that Bush was commissioned 1st lieutenant straight out of boot camp without the normal officers training school or ROTC history. We have seen how he was able to take time off from the guard to work in a friend of his father’s political campaign. It’s one thing that George W. Bush’s records clearly show: he had been granted exceptional privilege above and beyond what could have reasonably been expected for the son of a congressman. Bush has admitted that his attendance in the guard "was spotty." One place his attendance won’t be spotty is at the festival his party is holding for him now in Philadelphia, home of the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall.onlinejournal.com
