Evidence!: don't forget Bush Blew off His TANG Flight Physicals

[JCMach1]

and was suspended because of it.

Found this during my research for my cocainegate article... coming to DU soon.

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Skipped all his medical exams after they started drug tests.
In April 1972, the military started including routine drug tests in servicemen's annual physical exam, including urinalysis, questions about drugs and "a close examination of the nasal cavities" (for cocaine). According to the regulation, the medical took place in the month after the serviceman's birthday. For George W. Bush, this meant August 1972.

It was May, 1972 -- one month after the drug testing was announced -- that Bush stopped attending Guard duty. In August 1972, he was suspended from flight duty for failing to take his physical. (Click here to see the document.) A Bush campaign spokesman confirmed to the London Sunday Times that Bush knew he would be suspended. "He knew the suspension would have to take place." Bush never flew again, even though he returned to his Houston base where Guard pilots flew thousands of hours in the F-102 during 1973. The only barrier to him flying again was a medical exam (and his lack of attendance).

Careful readers will recall that when Bush issued his partial denial of drug use, he said (or implied) that he hadn't used them since 1974, but he pointedly refused to deny drug use before then, i.e. during his military service. Several sources have also indicated that it was in December, 1972 -- 4 months after his medical suspension -- that a drunk Bush Jr. challenged his father to a fist fight during an argument over the son's drunk driving. (He had run over a neighbor's garbage cans.) Shortly thereafter, Bush Sr. arranged for his son to do community service at an inner city Houston charity.

Bush's campaign aides first said he did not take the physical because he was in Alabama and his personal physician was in Houston. But flight physicals can be administered only by certified Air Force flight surgeons, and some were assigned at the time to Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, where Bush was living. The staff now admits that this explanation was wrong...
http://www.realchange.org/bushjr.htm#drugtest

[lcordero]

1. I wonder why no emphasis is being put on the circumstances of

Bush's* commissioning as a 2nd Lieutenant.

[JCMach1]

2. This takes us back to the Drug use and ties in the AWOL issue

Remember * claims HE DID HIS SERVICE...


What about this paper GOVERNOR!

[madrchsod]

3. the other day i brought this

in the contexts that this should have been looked at first ,then the rest of the problem related to his failure to take the drug test. i was kin`a shot down on this..i thought that the democrats were out of touch with an important political point- most people who are hired have to take a drug test-everyone can relate to this issue, therefor the dems should have hammered on this. if workers who get hurt on the job they face a mandatory test-flunk it and it`s off to rehab or fired. this is a very good point to make when you`re eating lunch or during a break...i`m not sure how many around here understood what i meant,but after working in blue collar america for almost 40 yrs. this issue of drug testing is bush`s big problem. i`m going back to sleep.......