On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 04:01:28 GMT, "Maxprop"
wrote:


"Jonathan Ganz" wrote in message

Powerful friends who helped him shirk his duties, helped him overcome
any bad press he was going to get from his commander.

In the several years prior to this supposed failure to report, he
accumulated ten to twenty times the number of points required to remain in
good stead in each year. He flew often. Isn't it just possible that he was
beginning to concentrate on his political career during that last year?

Max

I don't believe anyone disputes the fact that he met the requirements
of a weekend warrior for the first four years of his six year
obligation. Why his father shipped him off to Alabama in 1972 is a
mystery, but by the accounts of the folks working on that campaign in
Alabama, it certainly wasn't because Bush was serious about "his
political career."

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/20.../index_np.html

In the spring of 1972, George H.W. Bush phoned his friend and asked a
favor: Could Allison find a place on the Senate campaign he was
managing in Alabama for his troublesome eldest son, the 25-year-old
George W. Bush?

"The impression I had was that Georgie was raising a lot of hell in
Houston, getting in trouble and embarrassing the family, and they just
really wanted to get him out of Houston and under Jimmy's wing,"
Allison's widow, Linda, told me. "And Jimmy said, 'Sure.' He was so
loyal."

Linda Allison's story, never before published, contradicts the Bush
campaign's assertion that George W. Bush transferred from the Texas
Air National Guard to the Alabama National Guard in 1972 because he
received an irresistible offer to gain high-level experience on the
campaign of Bush family friend Winton "Red" Blount. In fact, according
to what Allison says her late husband told her, the younger Bush had
become a political liability for his father, who was then the United
States ambassador to the United Nations, and the family wanted him out
of Texas. "I think they wanted someone they trusted to keep an eye on
him."
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When Bush returned to Houston, but not to his unit, he spent several
months doing volunteer work with inner city youth in Operation PULL,
work that sounds suspiciously like community service "volunteer" work
by someone who may well have gotten in trouble with his father, or,
more likely, the law. The rumored 1972 cocaine arrest and the
subsequent changing of his driver's license number connects the dots,
but is not, as yet, provable.