I've been posting this over and over, which I hope is not annoying. It is relevant. Hopsicker has done the investigative work on the Bush military career. Democrats should read it. Hopsicker is an ex NBC reporter who has great cred. He has been featured on Court TV's Catherine Crier Live for his work on his new book: "
Terrorland." The first chapter is online in pdf, click the link to read it.
The following has been up on Daniel's website for awhile now, but, no one seems to want to know:
Who What When Where Why...When Its Convenient
In the official version of George W. Bush's chronology during his National Guard years is a striking statement which has been totally overlooked in the major media. A timeline of President George W. Bush's service in the National Guard compiled by The Associated Press says, for 1971: "Participates in drills and alerts at Ellington. Begins work for Houston-based agricultural company."
We always become suspicious when we see the major media get suddenly vague. The AP has no trouble at all with the name of the air base, "Ellington," where Bush was serving. But, about where he was working, they can bring themselves only to say he "works for a "Houston-based agricultural company."
"A Houston-based agricultural company" is wordy. It's far less work to write "XYZ Company." So we already knew we would find something juicy hidden here, because reporters are notoriously lazy, and would not have gone to the trouble to construct the line "Houston-based agricultural company" unless prompted to by the exigencies of our capitalist system.
"Reportorial vagueness" is almost always deliberate. The Chicago Tribune, for example, carried a whole story about the mysterious German couple who recruited Mohamed Atta to come to Hamburg from Cairo in 1992. But they never once named the couple. They called them the "M's.
When the media roll over completely on the old "who what when where & why business," its always for a reason. And the reason is always the same:
Somebody is covering something up.
Tropical Plants and "La Vida Loca" in Houston
"George's job was to travel around the United States and to countries in Central America looking for plant nurseries his company might want to acquire," read one account.
A profile of George W in 2000 in Texas Monthly said, "George W. Bush's responsibilities included sizing up plant nurseries for possible acquisition."
Is it just us? Does anyone else have a problem seeing George W. Bush as Mr. Green Jeans? The idea seems ridiculous on its face, especially as his plant nursery job comes smack dab (as they say in Texas) in the middle of a time when Bush was living la vida loca, partying, boozing, and, persistent rumors allege, doing other drugs as well.
Bush lived at Chateaux Dijon, an apartment complex near the Houston Galleria known for its singles scene, which included water volleyball games in its swimming pools. Friends describe him as taking a hearty approach to his social life, and Bush himself has said famously that he was "young and irresponsible" in Houston, that he "raised a little hell."
We've spent time in Houston. Girls in clubs there don't appear the type to go wild for a man working in a plant nursery. Au contraire.
A jug of wine, a load of bread, and some beautiful pink flowers
Working for a company engaged in the unglamorous plant nursery business could hardly have been seen as a plus in getting girls. Why work there then? Other more dashing pursuits must have been available to young Bush, for those hours when he wasn't patrolling the skies for signs that the Mexican Air Force had launched an all-out attack.
Had it been some kind of aroma therapy? A respite from debilitating drinking bouts amid fragrant and beautiful flowers? Soothing naps underneath baobab trees after throttling screaming warplanes through the wild blue yonder?
Bush, a practical politician in his later years, learned Spanish to court the Hispanic vote. If he spent a year rubbing elbows with horticulturalists, don't you think we'd have heard him boast of this "green" credential?
But where the story really breaks down is here: What did George W. Bush know about tropical plants that made him a horticultural expert sharp enough to be deployed overseas looking for acquisitions?
The question answers itself. The answer is "nothing." So it is not reasonable to conclude that George W. Bush was in the tropical plant business during the year he says he was.
So then, just what business was Bush involved with, while traipsing about Central America with lads from Zapata?
A Coat, a Tie...and a Snub-nosed 38?
http://www.madcowprod.com/mc4622004.html
There is so much more ... this is a three parter.
But we think something larger and much darker is still being hidden.
Lurking in Bush's fuzzy Guard history lies the chilling prospect that the "lost periods" in Bush's chronology contains a stomach-wrenchingly sick and twisted truth confirming the hoariest cliché of `conspiracy theorists': that multiple generations of certain `blue-blood' Eastern families (like Bush's) run intelligence agencies like the CIA as if they were a `family business.'
In 1971, while Richard Nixon's re-election committee was committing the felonies they were indicted for the next year, and CIA pilot Barry Seal was conspiring with the Mexican Air Force in a CIA plot to invade Cuba for which he was indicted the next year, where was George W?
George W. Bush was either a) scouting orchids for a plant nursery or b) working for the CIA in Central America.
Let's look at the evidence for 'b.'
http://www.madcowprod.com/mc4712004.html
Three parts ...
During the summer of 1974 George W Bush flew for a CIA-connected airline in Alaska later suspected by the Iran Contra Commission of being involved in CIA drug trafficking in support of the Contras, the MadCowMorningNews has learned.
The company, Alaska International, has also been publicly accused of illegally selling C-130 military aircraft to Col. Moammar Qaddafi's Libya which were used in Libya's invasion of Chad, despite the U.S. government ban on sales of the aircraft to Libya.
Bush's Alaska adventure is another `missing' chapter of Bush's biography, and has almost completely escaped media attention. We learned of it first in a letter from a reader of the first two segments of our report on "The Secret History of George W. Bush."
"About the connections you're tracing in Alabama - you might want to look at a few years later when Bush was in Alaska working for Mark Air, which also had a reputation for undercover operations," the reader wrote.
"He never talks much about his Alaska experiences either--and you'd think he'd boast of em all the time! Many of us Alaskans who were here during the pipeline years have wondered about this... He came up here like a lot of Texans--but it wasn't to work in the oilfields!"
http://www.madcowprod.com/mc5012004.html