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NOTE: The falsified personal history was created when George W. served as
the governor of Texas, as indicated by the use of his first name, an informality
never permitted in White House communications.
Brazenly, Shrub's phony military history claims he flew ANG F102s almost SIX
years when the actual time was 27 months.
The text contains other misrepresentations as well -- all intentional, not typos
or mistaken dictation.
For example, the bogus bio asserts that Bush spent four years helping to keep
two F102s on strip alert. In truth, he was only qualified for alert duty 22 months
and the last 60 days were plagued by pilot problems attributed to poor airmanship,
excessive drinking and a rumored fear of flying. |
The fabricated federal document was found by Hugh Scott in February 2004 while
surfing the Internet for information about George W.'s military service. Of all places,
the text had been published on a State Department website in 2001 for the whole
world to see. Everyone but the sleepwalking press, that is.
To validate his discovery, Scott called the Boston Globe. Impressed, it ran the story
the next morning, on 02/28/04, and gave him credit as the source.
Unfortunately for voters in 2004 who deserved to know about Dub-ya's bogus bio,
not one U.S. paper or media outlet carried the story. Scott believes the lack of
coverage was caused by the Globe article coming out on a Saturday. Apparently
back then, people in the news business took weekends off instead of serving the
public good.
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So why the subterfuge and how did Shrub's phony bio end up on the Internet?
According to Scott's case theory, in 2000 then-Governor Bush inflated his weekend warrior
duty to make him competitive with his only viable Republican opponent, Arizona Senator
John McCain, who spent five and a half years as a POW during the Vietnam War.
After he won the New Hampshire primary, Senator McCain, a highly decorated ex-Navy
fighter pilot, was targeted for dirty GOP campaign tricks reportedly orchestrated by Karl
Rove -- Lee Atwater prodigy, college dropout and Vietnam War draft dodger.
Bush's not-so-funny brain, Karl Rove. His immoral
campaign strategies and dishonest word spinning
split apart the U.S. electorate, nearly destroyed
bipartisanship in Washington and helped create the
looming catastrophe in Iraq.
Nasty whispers spread by Bush/Rove operatives against McCain included:
- He had been brainwashed while a prisoner of war in Hanoi.
- The senator's adopted Bangladesh daughter was his love child.
- He had infected his wife with VD.
- He had turned her into a drug addict.
- He was connected to the Mafia.
The rumors were never taken seriously by most Republican voters. Nevertheless, not once
did George W. repudiate the outlandish lies. Nor did he ever apologize to Senator McCain for
their use. Instead, Governor Bush countered with a whining "poor me" response that he, too,
was being attacked by political enemies -- in his case, the Sierra Club, which had opposed his
anti-conservation, pro-business philosophy.
Ex-POW John McCain after his release
from the Hanoi Hilton in 1973.
Because the smear campign was hurtful to Sen. McCain's family, he quit the primary race. No
longer needed, the bogus biography scheme was abandoned and all copies destroyed including
word processing files on computer disks. However, one floppy was apparently overlooked.
As fate would have it after Bush's 2001 inauguration, someone on the new White House staff
inadvertently sent the forbidden disk with his phony bio to the State Department website
manager as a replacement for President Clinton's history. For three years the smoking gun of
Oval Office corruption went undetected, missed by thousands of web-surfing journalists except
Hugh Scott.
After the Boston Globe reported Scott's discovery, the Bush administration refused to say who
wrote George W.'s false Guard history or how it ended up on the Internet. Instead, White House
communications director Dan Bartlett lamely explained that the State Department bio did not
"reflect the facts of his [Bush] service" and would be "corrected."
The bogus Bush bio caper didn't end with the Globe report, however. On Sep. 29, 2005, Scott
scooped the lazy press again by finding another phony Guard history on a website maintained
by the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi.
The next week, on October 6, when Scott checked the Hanoi website again, the biography had
been deleted. Scott thinks the White House was alerted by the press after he notified several
newspapers in Washington, D.C., on October 4.
Obviously someone in the White House ordered the website scrubbed. The last-minute cover-
up came too late, however. Prudently during his first visit, Scott made a printout of the bogus
bio and mailed copies to friends for safekeeping.
On October 22, 2005, in a letter to the FBI charging that White House counsel Harriet Miers,
then Bush's appointee to the Supreme Court, had approved his falsified Guard history, Scott
asked the Bureau to investigate the matter. A waste of time, he now believes, because the FBI
never acknowledged receipt of his letter.
Sarcasm aside, Miss Miers was Bush's lawyer when he governed Texas. As his
attorney, she surely knew about his AWOL Guard record and probably had a hand
in writing the phony bio. The same goes for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales,
another legal lapdog for George W. in Austin.
If true, that made Miers and Gonzales traitors, as are other White House officials who
had knowledge of the ANG coverup scheme and kept it under wraps. By hiding Bush's
AWOL Guard record from media scrutiny, they betrayed the U.S. electorate which was
entitled to full disclosure of his military service.
Three other likely accomplices also worked for Dub-ya when he was in Austin: Karl
Rove and Dan Bartlett plus Karen Hughes, State Department propagandist and co-
author of Bush's 1999 alibi autobiography, "A Charge to Keep," which claimed he flew
F102s in 1973.
Big Bush Lie -- Version 1.0.
The federal employment of intimate confidants like Miers, Gonzales, Rove, Bartlett and
Karen Hughes explains why the Bush administration is characterized by cronyism and
incompetence. To keep his AWOL Guard record and other transgressions secret,
Dub-ya and his Austin assistants picked White House staff members and department
officials based on loyalty, not ability.
Two sterling examples of staunch Bush loyalists are (1) L. Scooter Libby, VP Cheney's
former chief of staff who committed perjury to protect his boss and (2) Monica Goodling,
White House - Justice Department go-between who took the Fifth for the same reason.
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Republicans will argue that Shrub never knew about the bogus State Department bio.
However, specific details such as "two F102s on round-the-clock alert" were most likely
known only by him.
George W. also had a reputation for a fiery temper and maintaining tight management
control. It is inconceivable that a member of the 2000 campaign team would risk his
wrath and certain termination by publishing a false ANG record for public consumption
without Bush's approval.
It’s worth noting that George W. was the only National Guard pilot during the Vietnam
War to be commissioned without any officer training whatsoever. He never attended
a service academy like West Point, never took college ROTC, never went to Officers
Candidate School and never served on active duty as an enlisted man.
So how did Dub-ya learn to be an officer? He didn’t. The only military training Bush
received prior to being commissioned happened during a six-week basic airman course,
the equivalent of Army boot camp for privates. Even more absurd, while his fellow
recruits marched, pulled KP and cleaned toilets, Airman Bush was given a week off to
work for the GOP in Florida.
Royal first son receiving gold bars served on a silver platter by his
Congressman daddy. ZERO officer training required.
