Deserter in Chief - Larry Flynt is watching the story

[Vrai]

http://www.larryflynt.com/articles/deserterinchief.html

DESERTER IN CHIEF: Did Bush Abandon His Post During 'Nam?

While George W. Bush has no problem sending U.S. soldiers to sacrifice
their lives in the Middle East, evidence suggests that America's
commander in chief was worse than a draft-dodging coward; in all
likelihood he was a wartime deserter. Greg Palast uncovers new
information on W.'s war-avoiding maneuvers and the subsequent coverup.
Ed Rampell explores Bush's 18-month absence from duty.

George Wins the Lotteries

by Greg Palast

The Bush family daisy chain of favors, friendship and finance goes way
back to Dubya's "War Years." Junior Bush was a fighter pilot during the
war in Vietnam; not in the United States Air Force, where one could get
seriously hurt, mind you, but in the Texas air force, known as the Texas
Air National Guard. Texas's toy army, an artifact of Civil War days, is
a favorite club for warmongers who are a bit squeamish about actual
combat. Membership excused these weekend warriors from the military
draft and the real shoot-'em-up in 'Nam.

During the war, Senator Prescott Bush and his son, Congressman George
Bush Sr., were more than happy to send other men's sons and grandsons to
Southeast Asia. However, there were not enough volunteers for this
suspect enterprise; so Congress created a kind of death lottery: If your
birth date was picked out of a hat, off to the army you went. But the
Air Guard flyboys were exempted from this macabre draft lotto.

When tested for the coveted Air Guard get-out, young George W. tested at
25 out of 100, one point above "too-dumb-to-fly" status, yet leaped
ahead of hundreds of applicants to get the Guard slot.

Now, how could that happen? Only recently could I get a glimmer of the
truth, a by-product of an Observer investigation of a New Jersey company
called GTech. This firm holds the contract for a far less deadly and far
more lucrative lottery operation than the one for the military draft:
the Texas State Lottery.

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[Jack_Dawson]

1. Cool - porn's on our side!

:toast:

[DS1]

2. It's more like Bush and crew is against porn

It'll be a fight for survival if shrub gets in again.

[MadAsHell]

4. A little funny story ...

Last year, I attended my state's Democratic Party convention with my nephew. As we returned to the convention site a small group of wingnut protesters had gathered on the street in front. My nephew went over to see what the protest was about, while I waited in the parking lot. He returned and said they had signs about porno, free love, and all manner of other social ills. Then my nephew said "If I had know that's what Democrats stood for I would have joined the party much sooner!"

[bushisanidiot]

3. young AWOL tested at 25 out of 100, 1 point above "too dumb to fly"

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

what a dipshit, priviledged son of a congressman..

[dArKeR]

9. AWOL never flew solo. I'd stake my reputation on it! It's a gut feeling.

And I say his grades at Yale were also altered or was given passing grades by the teachers.

Both of these are obvious if you know the obvious lack of character of Junior!

And why aren't any of these things investigated and published by FOX, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, 60 Minutes?

[pnorman]

5. Great find!

I wanted to cite that bit about Bush & GTech, for a union listserve I'm active in. Being shipboard officers, many (but far from all) tend to be "elitist", and some are in love with Bush. (Yes it's BLIND and unrequited). So I was Google-searching for a second source (other than Larry Flynt), and came upon what appears to be the complete Chapt. 2 of that book, "THE BEST DEMOCRACY MONEY CAN BUY". Here it is: http://www.earthrainbownetwork.com/Archives2004/BushesBought.htm The topic headings are a little inconsistent; most are in Bold, but the others are in Regular type. I suspect that indicates that the person had retyped that whole chapter by him/herself. A real Labor of Love. THANKS.

pnorman
STAND UP, KEEP FIGHTING http://shows.implex.tv/wellstone/

[pnorman]

6. My error

The Introduction The American Edition, along with Chapters I & II, can be found on Greg Palasts's web page at: http://www.gregpalast.com/contents.htm But they're in .pdf format and can't be copy/pasted. They have to be converted into plain text by a special OCR program, or retyped as was my original thought. In either case ... THANKS.

pnorman
STAND UP, KEEP FIGHTING http://shows.implex.tv/wellstone /

[pippin]

7. Sickening

:puke: The likes of Bush and family avoid anything that could hurt themselves but are perfectly happy to send the sons and daughters of ordinary Americans to their deaths. I hope the scummy lot of them--Poppy, Baba, Pickles, Jeb, Neal et al--rot in hell.

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