Commander Requests, "Suspend Bush From National Guard!"

In addition to being Mostly Absent From Duty To Help A Politician, it seems that Bush was also recommended for suspension by his commander in the Air National Guard.

On Aug. 1, 1972, Lt. Bush was suspended from flying status, due to "failure to accomplish his annual medical examination." That document was released years ago. But another document has not been seen until now. It�s a memo that Col. Jerry Killian put in his own file that same day. It says "on this date, I ordered that 1st Lt. Bush be suspended not just for failing to take a physical�.but for failing to perform to U.S. Air Force/Texas Air National Guard standards."

He goes on: "The officer [then-Lt. Bush] has made no attempt to meet his training certification or flight physical."
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Bush's buying his way out of military service and buying his way into the Air National Guard (he got in, in spite of a waiting list and so forth because of political favors called dnow) has always been a "known secret" here in Texas. I have always wondered if his drug abuse was the reason he wasn't showing up for physicals and so forth.

Frankly, his performance in the Texas ANG rather mirrors his performance as President: get into position and go on vacation. Lots.

The problem with bush is that the life he got growing up was to shelter, when he saw the opportunity to break free he could not because he was attach to his family money they control the flow of cash making him arrogant, spiteful and bad tempered, plus he blamed his father for his problems it is a typical poor rich kid syndrome.

And after so many years those entire trait are still surfacing as a president now in power he feels on top of the world and is showing his daddy that he could be his equal.

Yes in a way he does have a mental problem and a superiority complex. The way the daughters behave is going to be something to see in future news after he gets out of the presidency.

I am not a psychologist so this is so an observation.

Here's a link to the original story (which has more of the memo saying "suspend Bush") that appears in the Chicago Sun Times:
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Pentagon officials said they discovered the documents released Tuesday while performing a more comprehensive search "out of an abundance of caution" in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by The Associated Press.

Continued memos from Bush's direct superior Lt. Col. Jerry Killian a year after recommending his suspension for failing standards points to...

...turmoil among Bush's superiors over how to rate his performance because there was no "feedback" from Guard officials in 1972 and 1973 in Alabama, where Bush had been largely inactive.

A third Killian memo makes clear that Killian was concerned from the outset over Bush's plan to go to Alabama because the military had spent a substantial sum of money turning Bush into a pilot and that his National Guard duties might suffer if he went elsewhere.

"Phone call from Bush," Killian wrote in a May 19, 1972, memo. "Discussed options of how Bush can get out of coming to drill from now through November. ... Says that he is working on another campaign for his dad. ... We talked about him getting his flight physical situation fixed ... Says he will do that in Alabama if he stays in a flight status."

The memo added that Bush "has this campaign to do and other things that will follow and may not have the time. I advised him of our investment in him and his commitment."

The White House defended against the words of the now dead Bush supervisor saying...

"For anybody to try to interpret or presume they know what somebody who is now dead was thinking in any of these memos, I think is very difficult to do."

But apparently the Bush White House has much less trouble interpreting the words of dead founding Father's to their liking, than they do people Bush actually knew.

Quotes from Fox News coverage.

Related ATS discussion (including Lt Gov Barnes admission he aided Bush into NG with preferential treatment) at Liberal Media Renews Attacks on President Bush

typical Democratic demogogary, didn't we go through this four years ago? with Al Gore? seems like Kerry has indeed been given Clinton's attack dogs. According to the National Guard rules At the time, guardsmen were required to accumulate a minimum of 50 points to meet their yearly obligation. in his first year Bush accumulated 253 points, in year two he accumulated 340 points, year three 137 points, year four 112 points, year five 56 points before he was honorably discharged.

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