Looks more, and more, like author J.H. Hatfield's
claims that George W. Bush
was arrested for cocaine possession in 1972,
but had his record expunged with
help from his family's political connections
- Were TRUE.
Bush has fought very hard to not release his military
records.
Even after the release today of his pay records.
Why?
Most of the public is already well aware of his
grounding &
suspension for his failure to take the annual
miltary medical exam.
Examine the time frame.
It all fits the time frame gaps of Bush's military
duty dates,
fits GWBush's suspension and grounding from TANG
dates,
fits GWBush's assignment to ARF- the disciplinary
unit.
Matches the dates of Bush's admitted community
service time frame in Houston at PROJECT PULL
Fits why 6 MONTHS were added to Bush's final
separation date
So then.....was Bush arrested for drugs in 1972?
The gaps in Bush's TANG records that do not match
the records from Denver
(because ARF points do NOT count toward duty
at TANG)
AGAIN this fits time frame of Bush being SUSPENDED
and
GROUNDED from the National Guard for failure
to take required
military annual physical, with drug testing-
which had just been implemented
Bush looks to have been disciplined by his assignment
to the ARF.
ARF is the reserves, and among other things it's
where members of the
National Guard are sent for disciplinary reasons.
ARF duty is NOT counted as
official duty by the Texas Air National Guard.
THEN - Read this from SALON -
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/10/18/cocaine/
excerpts -
The Texas governor had admitted to working at
Houston's Project P.U.L.L. in
1972, and author Hatfield says he began to wonder
if that was actually the
community service sentence.
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Hatfield quotes "a high-ranking advisor to Bush"
who confirmed that Bush was
arrested for cocaine possession in Houston in
1972, and had the record
expunged by a judge who was "a fellow Republican
and elected official" who helped
Bush get off "with a little community service
at a minority youth center instead
of having to pick cotton on a Texas prison farm."
Hatfield quotes a former Yale classmate who told
him: "George W. was arrested
for possession of cocaine in 1972, but due to
his father's connections, the
entire record was expunged by a state judge whom
the older Bush helped get
elected. It was one of those 'behind closed doors
in the judges' chambers' kind of
thing between the old man and one of his Texas
cronies who owed him a favor
... There's only a handful of us that know the
truth."
Another source named only as "a longtime Bush
friend" described the situation
this way: "Say you get a D in algebra ... and
now you're going to be required
to repeat the class the following year, but your
teacher says if you promise to be
tutored during the summer by a friend of hers
who's good in math, she'll change
the D to a C. You spend a few hours a week during
the summer vacation learning
all about arithmetical operations and relationships,
and then the teacher issues you
a new report card, replacing the old one on file
in the principal's office ...
Something akin to that scenario is what happened
with Bush in 1972."
Hatfield also says that when he asked Scott McClellan
to comment on the
allegation of a former Yale classmate of Bush's
that the presidential hopeful was
arrested for cocaine possession in 1972 and had
his record expunged in exchange
for community service at Project P.U.L.L., the
Bush campaign spokesman said,
sotto voce, "Oh, shit," followed by, "No comment."
McClellan denies that the exchange ever occurred.
"I never spoke to the guy,
and I'm not aware that anyone at the campaign
has spoken to him," he told Salon News.
MORE...........
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/10/18/cocaine/
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Of course the Bushitas attacked the messenger
with a vengeance.
And it helped the attackers that Hatfield had
a very tarnished past.
Now Hatfield is dead. Suicide.
Convenient, or coincidence? Or both?
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Final Summary of Bush's military records.
http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/3671
For the Guard, for the ranking officers involved
and for Lieutenant Bush the
easiest and quietest thing to do was adding time
onto his commitment and
placing that time in the inactive reserves.
Among these old documents there is a single clue
as to how Bush finally
fulfilled his obligations and made up for those
missed drill days. In my first
request for information I received a small three-page
document containing the
"Military Biography Of George Walker Bush." This
was sent from the Headquarters
Air Reserve Personnel Center (ARPC) in Denver
Colorado.
In this official summary of Bush's military service,
I found something that
was not mentioned in Bush's records from the
National Guard Bureau in
Arlington, Virginia. When Bush enlisted his commitment
ran until May 26, 1974. This was
the separation date shown on all documents as
late as October 1973, when Bush
was transferred to the inactive reserves at Denver,
Colorado. But the date of
final separation shown on the official summary
from Denver, is November 21,
1974. The ARPC had tacked an extra six months
on to Bush's commitment.
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Why was 6 months tacked on to George W Bush's
military duty?
What was this punishment for? a punishment for
not showing up?
A punishment for his "grounding" and "suspension"
for Bush's failure to
take his required military physical?
Or something worse? drugs? drunk? assault?