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(Message started by: athos on Aug 12^th, 2004, 9:36pm)

Title: Bush - The missing years - From GQ
Post by athos on Aug 12^th, 2004, 9:36pm

Find the issue with Hale Berry on the front.... Makes for a good read ;)

Quote:

BUSH: THE MISSING YEARS
By Jason Gay
GQ Magazine

(page 1 of 10)
In January 1973, Private Gary Donahue was on his second tour of duty in Vietnam when he stopped with a few other GIs at a sweaty Saigon bar called the Roc Club. It was nearing midnight, and the place was thick with well-lubricated soldiers and local women. A middle-aged Vietnamese crooner prowled a makeshift stage, singing standards like "Mack the Knife" and "Luck Be a Lady."

Suddenly, a trim, clean-cut American grabbed the microphone. "Howdy, folks!" the man yelled in a slight twang. "How ya'll feel about hearing a little music?" Donning a straw Vietnamese hat, the man launched into a raucous, heartfelt version of "Deep in the Heart of Texas" and then "Wooly Bully."

Afterward the mystery performer sat with Donahue and several of his fellow rifle-platoon soldiers, and the men quickly attracted a gaggle of young Vietnamese women. Over beers and shots of Rebel Yell, the stranger told them he was in the country on "government business," but was vague about details. He boasted that he "worked alone." He said he'd traveled throughout the warring country, and when Donahue asked if he'd crossed the border into Cambodia and Laos, the man grinned and winked. Then he showed off a pair of crocodile-skin cowboy boots he'd purchased from a peddler in Saigon. "I've been looking for boots like this for a month," the man said, rubbing his hand over the slick skin. "Mission accomplished!"

"He was sketchy but charming," Donahue recalled. "The girls loved him. Everyone loved him. I assumed he was CIA."

More than two decades passed, and Donahue forgot all about that mysterious American from the Roc Club. But then one night in 1994, while watching a CNN report on a gubernatorial race in Texas, Donahue saw that face again.

"I couldn't believe it," he said. "It was the guy from the bar. And since then, I've often wondered: What on earth was George W. Bush doing in Vietnam?"

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Ever since George W. Bush entered politics, he has been dogged by questions about his whereabouts during a twelve-month period from May 1972 to May 1973. It has been alleged that Bush, then a 26-year-old pilot in the Air National Guard, hardly ever reported for duty. The president has strongly denied this charge, and the White House has provided records it claims prove that Bush fulfilled his Guard obligations. Still, Bush's service record remains murky. Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, a decorated Vietnam War veteran, has repeatedly made reference to the president's unexplained absences. Filmmaker and activist Michael Moore has gone so far as to label the president a "deserter."

But an eight-month investigation by GQ has yielded a stunningly different portrait of Bush's "missing year." This magazine's findings contradict allegations that Bush avoided military service but also explain why the president has remained vague about his activities during those twelve months.

In one respect, Bush's skeptics are right: Bush never did report to the Alabama Air National Guard. He may not even know where its barracks were. That's because during the period in question, Bush was serving his country elsewhere, in a clandestine military unit: the Special Undercover Missions Service (SUMS), an elite air-force agency specializing in national security and acts of espionage. Created by the Eisenhower administration in 1958 to respond to growing concerns about aerial reconnaissance by the Soviet Union, SUMS operated for twenty-one years in a shroud of secrecy. There is no offcial record of the organization; SUMS is said to have been terminated by President Jimmy Carter in 1979.

Title: Re: Bush - The missing years - From GQ
Post by Samantha_Smith on Aug 12^th, 2004, 9:49pm

C'mon---are you kidding? Is this a joke? "Elite air force agency...." Please!!!

Samantha

Title: Re: Bush - The missing years - From GQ
Post by alleyoop on Aug 12^th, 2004, 10:26pm

It'll be interesting to see if this one has legs.

..............................................alley

Title: Re: Bush - The missing years - From GQ
Post by Gator on Aug 12^th, 2004, 11:39pm

You're right, Alley. This could get good. And don't cry bs too loudly Samantha. Every branch of the service has it's own little known or totally unknown sub-oganizations. There were things going one then and there are things going on today that you will NEVER hear of. Through my service to this country and later in the American Legion and VFW I've met a lot of men who "were never in Cambodia and Laos" and who were never in a lot of other places as well.

I'm not saying this is true or not, just don't be so quick to dissmiss something because YOU never heard of it. There's a lot of things you never heard of.

Gator

Title: Re: Bush - The missing years - From GQ
Post by JDH on Aug 13^th, 2004, 12:06am

LMAO! [smiley=crackup.gif]
Do you really think this guy is capable of being in a clandestine military unit called the Special Undercover Missions Service (SUMS), "an elite air-force agency specializing in national security and acts of espionage."

puhlease ::)

http://photoshop.superdownloads.net/uploads/bushorchimp557.jpg

Jim

Title: Re: Bush - The missing years - From GQ
Post by E-Double on Aug 13^th, 2004, 12:22am

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!LMAO

Title: Re: Bush - The missing years - From GQ
Post by Gator on Aug 13^th, 2004, 2:29am

on 08/13/04 at 00:06:25, JDH wrote:

The monkey pics are cute. You're comparing yourself to Bush now. LOL (that was a joke in case anyone didn't get that) Someone with enough time could easily make the same graphic of Kerry with an orangutan or a maribu stork.

I never said he was or wasn't. I merely said don't be too quick to dismiss the possibility. Even if this particular force never existed, people were "drafted" into clandestine service from all branches of the military. He may have done no more than fly the planes taking the real operatives to their missions, but there is there.

I hope you don't always judge the book by it's cover. People are not always as dumb (or as intelligent) as they look. You don't graduate from an Ivy League college, learn to fly fighter jets, become the governor of a state and the president of a country and be stupid regardless of any similarities your facial expressions have with zoo animals.

Gator

Title: Re: Bush - The missing years - From GQ
Post by fubar on Aug 13^th, 2004, 3:01am

http://www.nunleys.com/kerry.gif

Title: Re: Bush - The missing years - From GQ
Post by E-Double on Aug 13^th, 2004, 3:07am

also Awesome!!

Title: Re: Bush - The missing years - From GQ
Post by Jeepgun on Aug 13^th, 2004, 7:46am

I went a lot of places and did a lot of things that uh... "never happened."

Title: Re: Bush - The missing years - From GQ
Post by stevegeebe on Aug 13^th, 2004, 9:12am

If Herman Munster were alive today he'd be turning over in his grave.

Steve G

Title: Re: Bush - The missing years - From GQ
Post by farmboy on Aug 13^th, 2004, 9:36am

fubar.......

good one...................HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA

Title: Re: Bush - The missing years - From GQ
Post by Tiannia on Aug 13^th, 2004, 10:17am

on 08/13/04 at 07:46:11, Jeepgun wrote:

I went a lot of places and did a lot of things that uh... "never happened."

So did my husband. He has told me a few things, but there are still a lot of things that he did in his time in SPecial Forces that I dont know nothing about and to bee honest I am not sure that I want to know.

Now like Gtor, that is not saying that I thing W was or was not a part of any of it, but units similar to this did happen and still do today.

Personally, I told my boss (who has a 24x36 picture of Regan hanging in his office) that I was going to vote for Bush just so I did nto have to listen to him bitch for the next 4 years. ::)

-Tia

Title: Re: Bush - The missing years - From GQ
Post by john_d on Aug 13^th, 2004, 12:57pm

ehh hmm, this may shed some light for you folks....

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/08/02/DDGF780BEP1.DTL&type=printable

how embarrassing ;;D

Title: Re: Bush - The missing years - From GQ
Post by Root on Aug 13^th, 2004, 2:22pm

I didn't see him, when I wasn't there.

Title: Re: Bush - The missing years - From GQ
Post by athos on Aug 13^th, 2004, 3:02pm

Quote:

Posted by: john_d Posted on: Today at 12:57pm
ehh hmm, this may shed some light for you folks....

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/08/02/DDGF780BEP1.D TL&type=printable

how embarrassing

john_d... Of course it is a joke... since whne does GQ gett he "Scoop" on anything except fashion etc..

But it is a good read

Title: playing chicken
Post by rumplestiltskin on Aug 13^th, 2004, 3:03pm

We texans have always known GB was not the person that is depicted by his public image.

He's a deeply spiritual family man devoted to the needs of the common man and peace on earth.

"Wag the Dog" was one of my favorite movies.

Love
den

Title: Re: Bush - The missing years - From GQ
Post by Charlie on Aug 13^th, 2004, 8:46pm

Right.

Makes me marvel at what a.....marvel Mr. Bush is.

Everytime something goes wrong, it's the fault of Congress.

What a guy. Perfection is a joy to behold.

Charlie

Title: Re: playing chicken
Post by BarbaraD on Aug 14^th, 2004, 8:13am

on 08/13/04 at 15:03:25, rumplestiltskin wrote:

He's a deeply spiritual family man devoted to the needs of the common man and peace on earth.

He's such a "devoted" father that he went "fishing" with the boys while his daughter was having an emergency surgery -- oh but he called and was assured that she was alright..... Sorry he lost me right there.

And as far as "common man" is concerned -- what would he KNOW about that. He's never been one and doesn't have a clue.

I've always complained about my tax money being spent studying the mating habits of the tse tse fly, but in retrospect -- maybe that's not all that bad!!!! ::)

Of course, I'm a woman and don't have CH -- what would I know.....

Hugs BD