Two Alabama Guardsmen recall that Bush never showed up for duty

[kentuck]

There was some scuttlebutt that an important person, a son of a politician was coming to their unit. They were looking for him. They were ready to party with him. But, he never showed up. Two live witnesses that were in that unit in 1972-73! A retired Colonel and a retired Lt. Colonel. These folks are credible. The story is not over.
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http://hartfordadvocate.com/gbase/News/content?oid=oid:54322

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Recalls Memphian Mintz, now 62: "I remember that I heard someone was coming to drill with us from Texas. And it was implied that it was somebody with political influence. I was a young bachelor then. I was looking for somebody to prowl around with." But, says Mintz, that "somebody" -- better known to the world now as the president of the United States -- never showed up at Dannelly in 1972. Nor in 1973, nor at any time that Mintz, a FedEx pilot now and an Eastern Airlines pilot then, when he was a reserve first lieutenant at Dannelly, can remember.

"And I was looking for him," repeated Mintz, who said that he assumed that Bush "changed his mind and went somewhere else" to do his substitute drill. It was not "somewhere else," however, but the 187th Air National Guard Tactical squadron at Dannelly to which the young Texas flyer had requested transfer from his regular Texas unit -- the reason being Bush's wish to work in Alabama on the ultimately unsuccessful U.S. Senate campaign of family friend Winton "Red" Blount.

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Mintz remembers a good deal of base scuttlebutt at the time about the letter, which clearly identifies Bush as the transferring party. "It couldn't be anybody else. No one ever did that again, as far as I know." In any case, he is certain that nobody else in that time frame, 1972-73, requested such a transfer into Dannelly.

Mintz, who at one time was a registered Republican and in recent years has cast votes in presidential elections for independent Ross Perot and Democrat Al Gore, confesses to "a negative reaction" to what he sees as out-and-out dissembling on President Bush's part. "You don't do that as an officer, you don't do that as a pilot, you don't do it as an important person, and you don't do it as a citizen. This guy's got a lot of nerve."
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[boobooday]

1. Letting down the party

Moral of the story:

Establishing your reputation as a party boy, and then now showing up and letting down the other wannabe partiers will come back to haunt you someday.

Keep your drinking obligations.

http://www.wgoeshome.com

[htuttle]

2. It's pathetic, isn't it?

Partying and cavorting is the one skill George W Bush actually had -- and he even screwed that up!

[hippiechick]

3. kick & circulate

:kick:

:hippie:

[Taeger]

4. Is this typical ????

Will this be a typical response among military officers to Bush's less than stellar performance as an officer???

Do most pilots realize that had they simply refused to take a physical and walked away from their committment, they would have been courtmarshalled for deriliction of duty????

It seems like the White House has smothered the flames for now. Even the ridiculously stupid Drudge intern lies seem to have been partially successfull.

The media seems to be in a self analysis mode deconstructing whether such "non news" should be reported as such. The right-wingers are actively pushing the spin that the AWOL issue is the same as the Kerry intern issue. They say it's baseless rumor from the past and mean spirited.

Meanwhile, the AWOL issue seems to have been dropped from the front page. Was this the Master-plan all along???? Plant a mean-spirited false story so they could deconstruct it and label it as being the SAME kin as AWOL???

[ElsewheresDaughter]

5. ah ha!...another BAM!

[diamond14]

6. it is horrific to listen to MILITARY officers justify shrub's AWOL....

claiming crap like 'everybody does it' 'it's normal behavior' 'we see it all the time'....

in his role as Commander in Chief...the shrub has now set a whole NEW low-life standard of behavior for OUR military commanders...so it's now OK for all military soldiers to act like the shrub did in 1972....and High-level Military Officers are lining up to sing this song in defense of the shrub....

is this the leadership that WE want for OUR military?
is this the standard WE want?
is this the way to protect OUR national security?

[9215]

7. The AWOL story is not going away,

More people keep coming forward to expose the crimes and corruptions of the Bush fascisti and the Press is printing the stories. :bounce:

[Buns_of_Fire]

8. Just keep this picture before the public (WARNING: Barf Alert!)

After all, it's hardly dissing the CiC (Codpiece-in-Chief) to show him at his MANLY-MAN bestest, right? But the beauty of it is that, every time someone sees this picture from now on, that little germ of a thought just won't go away. (Obviously, in retrospect, this was not one of Rover's better ideas. Duh.)

http://www.awolbush.com/