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.. George W. Bush is a deserter!
Here is the ironclad, indisputable proof that based on just the facts that
Bush and his campaign admit happened, under the Texas Code of Military
Justice, Section 432.130 & 432.131, Bush is unequivocally and absolutely
guilty of multiple violations of being both AWOL and a Deserter subject to
court martial.
Senator Daniel Inouye, who lost an arm in WWII, commented that if during
his
service, if he missed training like Bush did, "at the least I would have
been court-martialed."
Every journalist worthy of the name, instead of attacking Michael Moore
and
Clark should be outraged at the fact that Bush, an AWOL Deserter has
become
Commander in Chief and is using his power to recklessly send beautiful
trusting and believing heroic men and women to be maimed and slaughtered
in
Iraq for no reason other than The Bush Doctrine and Halliburton Oil.
Isn't it a thousand times more important for the future of America that
the
press vigorously investigate whether or not the President really was an
AWOL
Deserter than to irresponsibly make charges against Clark and Moore for
simply telling the truth? Here is the definitive proof Bush was a
Deserter.
Does Bush's Guard Record Really Matter Today?
Yes! Absolutely! First, because it raises a crucial question about
Bush's
character and integrity indispensable in a President and a
Commander-in-Chief. In view of the lies we were told from Hussein being
an
imminent WMD and nuclear threat, to Bush's lying even to his own Party
about
the true cost of the Prescription drug/Medicare Program, it raises the
crucial question as to whether or not Bush can ever be trusted, or does
the
Guard affair further prove that Bush has a pattern of being a chronic
liar?
Why Bush's Past Service Record is of Immediate Concern
Because it has serious consequences regarding the world's ability to
trust
Bush and the credibility of his Administration
Over half of the people in America, and most of the people all over the
world do not trust Bush, especially after the admission there was no
immediate nuclear or WMD threat from Hussein. Many consider him a chronic
liar with over a dozen books and hundreds of articles written about Bush's
lying and lack of being credible and trustworthy.
Many even consider him a sociopathic liar with a pattern of lying that is
used repeatedly over and over to deceive the Congress, the people and the
world. Even among those Americans who believed in Bush, the recent
revelation that there were no WMDs, the misrepresentations to his own
Party
regarding the prescription drug deal and Medicare, and many other recent
discoveries such as how Bush's White House lied to the rescue workers at
Ground Zero after 9/11 and changed the environmental impact report that
would have warned those heroes there were lethal toxins in the air - all
of
this has even Bush followers seriously worried about Bush's truthfulness
and
whether he can be trusted.
When the President of the United States cannot be trusted, even by his own
people, it creates a national and international crisis of major
proportions . which is what we have now.
If the facts of Bush's service record are true, and Bush is guilty of
being
AWOL and Desertion, as this quick summary unequivocally shows, then Bush
and
his team are guilty of fraud and deceit on an unprecedented level, and
Bush
should not have the power to send beautiful heroic men and women, mothers
and fathers, husbands and wives, sons and daughters to their deaths every
day in Iraq for a war as fraudulent as his service record . and no
responsible journalist should attack those who dare to tell the truth
about
Bush being AWOL and a Deserter.
Who else in the Bush Administration dodged the Draft?
Other Hawks and Neo-Cons eager to start and then escalate the war in
Iraq,
sending even more heroic Americans to die or be maimed who themselves were
afraid to go to war and used every deferment available to dodge the draft
are:
Vice President Dick Cheney, Attorney General John Ashcroft, Senate
Majority
Leader Bill Frist, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, Speaker of the House
Dennis Hastert, "Bush's Brain" Karl Rove, Paul Wolfowitz, Antonin Scalia,
Jeb Bush, Clarence Thomas, Trent Lott, Newt Gingrich, Richard Perle, Dick
Armey, Pat Buchanan, Phil Gramm, Dan Quayle, Bill Kristol, William
Bennett,
Bill O'Reilly, Steve Forbes.
Cheney, when asked about his draft avoidance: "I had other priorities
than
military service."
Tom DeLay said he and Quayle didn't go to Vietnam because "So many black
and
Latino boys had signed up that there just wasn't any room."
The Incontrovertible Evidence Bush was both AWOL & a Deserter
The Texas Code of Military Justice states clearly in the section Absent
Without Leave - 432.131:
"A person . shall be punished as a court martial directs if the person
without authority:
1) fails to go to his appointed place of duty at the time prescribed;
2) goes from that place; or
3) absents himself or remains absent from his unit, organization or
place of duty at which he is required to be at the time prescribed.
The evidence enclosed is overwhelming that Bush is guilty of all 3 AWOL
infractions.
Desertion - 432.130.
(a) a member of the state military forces is guilty of
desertion if the member:
1) without authority goes or remains absent from his unit,
organization, or place of duty with intent to remain away permanently;
(remaining away permanently is exactly what Bush did);
2) quits his unit, organization, or place of duty with intent
to
avoid hazardous duty or to shirk important service (such as flight
training,
which is exactly what Bush did);
3) (c) a person found guilty of desertion of attempt to desert
shall be punished as a court martial directs.
The facts are clear and incontrovertible,
Bush is also guilty of 2 counts of Desertion.
* * *
The extent to which Bush received "special treatment" to get into the
Guard
to avoid going to war
1. In 1968 there were 100,000 young men on American waiting lists to
get into the Air National Guard.
2. There were 500 names on the Texas Air Guard waiting list, and it
took an applicant about a year and a half to move to the top of the list
and
get a slot.
3. Ben Barnes, who at the time was the speaker of the Texas House of
Representatives, detailed in a sworn deposition how he secured a spot in
the
Guard for George at the behest of Sid Adger, a Bush family friend. Barnes
called General James Rose, head of the Texas Air National Guard, and asked
him to give Bush a spot.
4. Although Bush scored only 25 on the Pilot Aptitude Test, the
lowest
score one could receive and still be accepted, two weeks before he
graduated
from Yale in 1968, Bush applied for the Guard, and not only didn't get put
on any waiting list, he was given a "direct appointment" that made him a
2nd
Lieutenant with only a few weeks of basic training - a rank usually not
given except to those who completed four years of ROTC or 18 months active
duty service.
5. The Texas Air Guard many referred to as the "champagne unit",
included a number of boys considered too important to be sent to Vietnam,
including the sons of then Congressmen Lloyd Benson (later a Senator and
US
Treasury Secretary), Senator John Tower, and Governor John Connelly.
The facts that show clearly Bush was AWOL and a Deserter
1. Although Bush's service was to have continued until October 1973,
the last time Bush participated in a flight drill was April 1972, a full
18
months earlier.
2. Guard records show that some time after May 1971 Bush stopped
participating regularly in the required Guard activities and had fewer
than
the required flight duty days, and was short of the minimum service Bush
owed the Guard, despite his expensive training, and even though he still
owed the National Guard two more years (a clear violation of
432.131.(1)&(3), and 432.130.(2).
3. In August 1972, Bush failed to show up for a scheduled physical
exam. The Guard had just added a drug test to the physical, and if Bush
had
taken and failed the drug test, he would have been forbidden from flying
(a
violation of 432.131.(1&3) and 432.130.(2)).
(There is no way to know whether the drug test played a part in Bush's
decision to skip the exam, but also in 1972, Bush had a confrontation with
his father after taking his 16-year-old brother, Marvin, out on a drinking
spree in Washington and crashing through a neighbor's garbage cans on the
way home.)
On May 24, 1972, Bush requested a transfer to an inactive Reserve unit in
Alabama because he wanted to work on a Senate race there for a friend of
his
father's, Winton M. "Red" Blount. Bush's request to be put on inactive
reserve was denied, and he was required to serve in the active reserve.
However, according to official records and National Guard Officers in the
Montgomery unit in which was to have served, Bush never showed up at the
base, never reported for duty, though Bush did receive notice from the
Guard
that he was "ineligible" for the Air Reserve Squadron he requested, but
instead was required to attend periodic drills in Alabama. Over 200 pages
released by the National Guard show in Bush's file that Bush did not
attend
required drills, did not show up for monthly meetings, and did not perform
his weekend duty rotations. (A clear violation of 432.131.(1), and
432.130.(2) both above.)
4. Though Bush claimed during his 2000 campaign he clearly recalled
doing duty in Alabama saying that he did "show up for drills. I made most
monthly meetings, and when I missed them I made them up." Yet all the
records show he never did show up, and the officer who Bush had been
instructed - under orders -- to report to, William Turnipseed,
emphatically
states Bush never reported. "Had he reported in, I would have had some
recall, and I do not," said Turnipseed, a retired Brig. General. "I had
been in Texas, done my flight training there. If we had a 1st Lieutenant
from Texas, I would have remembered." (432.131.(1&3), 432.130.(2))
5. Though Bush later claimed through an aide that he has "some
recollection" of fulfilling his duties in Alabama, after an exhaustive
search by his own campaign, and rewards offered by various veterans groups
to anyone who had served with Bush in Alabama, neither the reward offers
nor
Bush's staff were able to produce a single person who could remember
serving
with him. Even more disturbing, Bush could not produce a single pay stub
or
flight form he would have had to possess if had had reported as ordered (a
clear violation of 432.131.(1), 432.132.(2)).
6. After the 1972 election, Bush returned to Houston, but he did not
report back to his old unit as he was supposed to. (432.131.(1-3),
432.130.(1-2))
7. In May of 1973, Bush's superiors at Ellington Air Force Base
reported they were unable to conduct the required yearly evaluation of
Bush
because "Lieutenant Bush has not been observed at this unit during the
period of this report." (432.131.(1-3), 432.130.(1-2))
8. The report goes on to say, erroneously, "A civilian occupation
made
it necessary for him (Bush) to move to Montgomery, Alabama. He cleared
this
base on 15 May 1972, and has been performing equivalent training in a
non-flying status with the 187 TAC RECON GP, Dannelly Ang Base, Alabama."
The report was mistaken - Bush was back in Houston, and apparently,
according to the records, never showed up to the National Guard Unit in
Alabama when he was there. (432.131.(1-3), 432.130.(1-2)).
9. When pressed, Bush said he did odds-n-ends around the base in
Houston, but he doesn't remember under whose command; he participated in
"some drills" but he doesn't remember when. As Senator Inouye said, if he
had missed training for that period of time, "at the very least I would
have
been court-martialed" - and if Bush did not have powerful connections, if
he
had been a poor white boy living in a trailer park, an African American or
a
Latino, he clearly would have been arrested and court-martialed.
(In a height of irony, Bush said that what the Guard taught him was ". the
responsibility to show up and do your job.")
10. Bush claimed that it was his transfer and duties in Alabama that
caused him to stop flying, and that he didn't return to flight drills
(which
he freely admits), because the plane he was trained on, the F-102, was no
longer in use. Bush's statements were false. The F-102 was still in use
long after Bush returned to Houston. Bush was grounded because he failed
to
show up for his physical. (432.130.(2))
11. Though the records are clear that Bush was not observed at the
Ellington Air Force Base for that entire year - his officers at Ellington
wrote in May 1973 that Bush could not be given his annual evaluation
because
he "has not been observed" in Houston between April 1972 and May 1973 -
and
another officer states in a subsequent document that a report for that one
year period was unavailable for "administrative reasons."
12. The records indicate that Bush did show up at the end of May 1973,
and fulfilled point requirements ten times between May 31 and July 30.
13. Though for at least one full year Bush is AWOL and guilty of
Desertion under TCMJ, in September 1973 Bush requested an early discharge
-
8 months before his term was up -- to attend Harvard Business School - and
in October 1973 he received an Honorable Discharge. The Guard records
Bush'
s campaign claimed as evidence he completed his duties were without Bush's
name on them, had no discernable dates, and a key page torn out. There is
no record of any other member of the Guard, African American, Latino or
white, being granted a discharge 8 months early to go to college. All are
additional violations of 432.131.(1-3) and 432.130.(1-2).
If any other Lieutenant had been so flagrantly AWOL for so long a time,
they
would have absolutely been arrested and court-martialed for Desertion.
As Colin Powell wrote, "I can never forgive a leadership that said, in
effect: These young men - poor, less educated, less privileged - are
expendable (someone described them as "economic cannon fodder"), but the
rest are too good to risk."
Powell went on: "I am angry that so many of the sons of the powerful and
well placed . managed to wrangle slots in Reserve and National Guard
units.
Of the many tragedies of Vietnam, this raw class discrimination strikes me
as the most damaging to the ideal that all Americans are created equal and
owe equal allegiance to their country."
Shame on you Brokaw, Jennings, Russert et al!
It is inexcusable that some of the biggest named journalists, Brokaw,
Jennings, Russert and all the rest who pride themselves on being accurate
journalists, did not bother to look this information up or even go the web
to look up the Texas Code of Military Justice as to what constitutes AWOL
and Desertion before attacking Michael Moore and Wesley Clark.
It is a sacrilege that this Deserter should become the Commander-in-Chief
and with his false macho "Bring it on!," send hundreds of brave heroic
trusting American men and women to their deaths and thousands more to
leave
their arms, legs, eyes and spines in a war that was completely
unnecessary,
illegal, and was solely for Halliburton oil - not to mention thousands of
innocent Iraqi men, women and children we are supposedly liberating.
(Sources: The following are some of the sources available for anyone
wanting to find out the facts about Bush, including this beautiful summary
I
heavily borrowed and paraphrased from Paul Waldman's superb book, Fraud,
Naperville, Illinois: Sourcebooks, Inc., 2004.)
Lois Romano, "Bush's Guard Service in Question," Washington Post, February
3, 2004, p. A8.
Mike Allen, "Bush's Military Record Defended," Washington Post, February
4,
2004, p. A5
Dan Froomkin, "Massive Counterattack on Bush's Service,"
washingtonpost.com, February 4, 2004
Julian Borger, "Draft Dodge Tale Threatens Bush's Run for Presidency,"
Guardian of London, September 29, 1999, p. 17.
Richard Serrano, "Bush Received Quick Air Guard Commission," Los Angeles
Times, July 4, 1999, p. A1.
Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose, Shrub: The Short But Happy Political Life of
George W. Bush. New York: Vintage, 2000.
Pete Slover and George Kuempel, "'I Was Young and Irresponsible,'" Dallas
Morning News, November 15, 1998, p. A1.
Walter Robinson, "1-Year Gap in Bush's Guard Duty," Boston Globe, May 23,
2000, p. A1.
www.talion.com/missing.htm
Walter Robinson, "Republican Ticket Lets a Military Connection Slip,"
Boston
Globe, July 28, 2000, p. A1.
Walter Robinson, "Questions Remain on Bush's Service as Guard Pilot,"
Boston
Globe, October 31, 2000, p. A14.
Susan Milligan, "Bush Pressured on Military Gaps," Boston Globe, November
3,
200, p. A29.
Colin Powell with Joseph Persico, My American Journey. New York: Random
House, 1995, p.148.
Glen Johnson, "Early Knack for Leading Put Cheney on Fast Track," Boston
Globe, July 26, 2000, p. A12.
Richard Cooper, "A Man of Big But Limited Ambitions - the Perfect Number
Two," Los Angeles, Times, October 19, 2000, p. A1.
Tim Fleck, "Which Bug Gets the Gas," Houston Press, January 7, 1999.
Walter Robinson, "In Ashcroft's Past, a Vietnam Deferment," Boston Globe,
January 16, 2001, p. A1.
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