Bush in Vietnam II

2004-8-17 13:08:00

Lance:

"I take it you didn't read the whole article JJ or you may have noticed the following:

"Bush was assigned to the Stones' 1972 North American tour. This time Bush chose to take on the identity of a roadie named Bo Bannister, an itinerant concert-business employee. Soon, he was given a position of great honor at the Stones' shows: inflating an enormous, forty-five-foot pink plastic penis at the beginning of 'Honky Tonk Women.'

"'I remember hearing about that,' said one Bush family friend. 'He used to say, 'God, if my mother could see me now, blowing up this giant pecker every night.' '

"'Look, it's an overstatement to say that Bush single-handedly solved the Vietnam problem,' said one Nixon White House source. 'But he did have an impact. Those boys might have been over there for another eighteen months. The banana in the tailpipe was the clincher. That's what finally brought them to the table.'

"The article is obviously a tongue in cheek piece of fiction.

"People accuse Bush of being AWOL because all the evidence points to him being AWOL."

JJ:

You're right, I just read the first couple paragraphs and put it on the back burner to read later. I should have known that a mainstream magazine wouldn't publish anything favorable to Bush. It does have it's humorous points though.

I've checked out the AWOL charge quite thoroughly and can't find the evidence to back it up. Bush did miss some meetings but made them up later which was acceptable, especially in that time that the war was winding down and guard service was not that crucial. He also got permission to take time off to run for the Senate. If he was truly AWOL the press (who has looked through every source) should be able to find someone back then saying something like: "Hey, Bush is AWOL, let's nail the SOB!"

Here's a news story giving some evidence in his favor: http://www.washtimes.com/national/20040211-121217-6595r.htm

And here is one of numerous ex-comrades testifying on his behalf: http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20040210-082910-8424r.htm

What is interesting is that John Kerry claimed to be on a secret mission to Cambodia during his four months of service that's as outlandish of a story as this piece of humor and has definitely been proven to be so false that he has now changed his story.