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02/12/2004 Archived Entry: "Whoa, back. 'Arrests?'"
Whoa, back. 'Arrests?'
Now I know that Bush was arrested a couple of times - once for vandalism and once for hooliganism at a football game. Somehow, though, I don't think they're talking about those particular arrests in this story from USAToday, of all places.
As Texas Gov. George W. Bush prepared to run for president in the late 1990s, top-ranking Texas National Guard officers and Bush advisers discussed ways to limit the release of potentially embarrassing details from Bush's military records, a former senior officer of the Texas Guard said Wednesday.A second former Texas Guard official, who spoke only on condition of anonymity, was told by a participant that commanders and Bush advisers were particularly worried about mentions in the records of arrests of Bush before he joined the National Guard in 1968, the second official said.
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Two forms in Bush's publicly released military files — his enlistment application and a background check — contain blacked-out entries in response to questions about arrests or convictions. Bush acknowledged in biographies published in 1999 that he was arrested twice before he enlisted in the Air National Guard: once for stealing a wreath and another time for rowdiness at a Yale-Princeton football game.
The nature of what was blacked out in Bush's records is important because certain legal problems, such as drug or alcohol violations, could have been a basis for denying an applicant entry into the Guard or pilot training. Admission to the Guard and to pilot school was highly competitive at that time, the height of the Vietnam War.
The National Guard cited privacy as the reason for blacking out answers. The full, unmarked records have never been released. Bartlett did not respond Wednesday to a request to release the records with nothing blacked out, which Bush could do as the subject of the records.
This just keeps getting better. I think there's a major drug bust in Bush's past.
Replies: 4 people speak up
Actually, I think there's something more damning in his military records that bad attendance. He's already as much as fessed up that he missed some weekends but made the time up. It's already known through records obtained via the FOIA that he missed his medical review which resulted in the loss of his flight privileges. What would Rove have to lose in releasing his complete record if all it did was confirm what's already known? If this is all that's in his records, Rove has everything to gain by releasing the records and getting this issue behind them.
If I had to guess, I would say it has something to do with the pattern of W's problems with authority figures. Think about it.
He walked away from the Kyoto treaty.
He walked away from the World Court.
He ignored the U.N.
He refused to abide by the wishes of the electorate in the 2000 election.
He challenged his daddy in '73 to go "mano-a-mano" after a drunken driving incident.
He ignored the Military obligations he committed to in the National Guard.
I would not be surprised at all to learn that this preppy, privileged, arrogant drunkard pulled a drunken “mano-a-mano” challenge to one of his superior officers while in the TANG.
Whatever it is, there is something beyond “poor attendance” in Bush’s military record that has Karl Rove scared s-tless.
Larry Dean
Posted by BUSHLLIT @ 02/12/2004 08:27 AM NY
that would be nice if it turned out to be true, its probobly just a coke bust though, or maybe hes a child molester... just putting it out there... it doesnt have to be true to spread... its called journalism when they do it
Posted by justin @ 02/12/2004 10:48 AM NY
It is cocaine, it is the Fortunate Son scenario. He got busted for Cocaine, dad got it turned into some community service work. That's why they white house is handling this so poorly, they are very very scared.
Posted by Rob @ 02/12/2004 01:24 PM NY
http://www.calpundit.com/archives/003255.html#103876
Posted by FSF @ 02/12/2004 08:32 PM NY
