Is It Time To Push Operation PULL???

[KharmaTrain]

While we're strolling down Bunnypant's memory, or lack-of-it, lane, there's one thread in his 1972 that hasn't been brought up publicly, but seems to make one go hmmm...it's his involvement with the Houston non-profit organization: Operation PULL.

There are several mentions about his short involvement with this organization; also characterized as a drug rehab or half-way house, in J. Hatfield's Fortunate Son and in some other articles in 2000, then vanished.

For those who aren't familiar with this part of the story...the best collection of quotes and sources is this post from Bartcop:

http://www.bartcop.com/faun-bush-awol.htm

Hatfield claims that George W. Bush was arrested for cocaine possession in 1972, but had his record
expunged with help from his family's political connections. In an afterword to his book "Fortunate Son:
George W. Bush and the Making of an American President" (St. Martin's), Hatfield says he took a second
look at the Bush cocaine allegations after a story in Salon reporting allegations that Bush didcommunity
service for the crime at the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center in Houston's Third Ward.

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What is all this stuff about GWB and a community service program?

Funny you should ask. You can bet your socks that if George W Bush volunteered to help inner city kids,
this fact would be part of every tear jerking bio-mercial for the glorious leader that the RNC ever spewed
onto our TV screens...... Unless it might cause people to ask WHY he was doing this service instead of
his ANG duty. Here is part of Bush Minor's official biography from a US State department site:


>>In the spring of 1972, he left this job and went to

Alabama to work on the unsuccessful U.S. Senate campaign of Republican Winton Blount. Returning to
Houston, he became a counselor for African-American youngsters in a program called PULL (Professional
United Leadership League). The program brought together volunteers from the athletic, entertainment,
and business worlds to work with young people in a variety of ways. George taught basketball and
wrestling and organized field trips to juvenile prisons, so his young charges could see that side of
life and resolve not to end up there themselves.


Now I've had a lot of questions about this...like, why was he involved in this program for only that period of time and never before or since? Is there anyone who can attest for this part of his life?

I'm sure you've got questions as well. It'd be nice to use this opportunity...since our friends on the right have decided to advance this story...that this should be looked into as well...

Cheers!

[grasswire]

1. that's why the TANG record is so important...

...it's the PORTAL to PULL.

Pull the string, someone!

[KharmaTrain]

2. Do We Spring This Now Or Wait?

Grasswire...I appreciate your posts and being as up-to-date on this mess as anyone. Is it too soon for this, or is it now to strike?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Somebody must know something about PULL

and why Shrub was there. The notion that this coke-snorting, spoiled frat boy would suddenly decide to volunteer to work with poor kids out of the goodness of his heart and for the benefit of the community is beyond incredible. It's about as believable as Dick Cheney deciding to donate all his Halliburton money to Moveon.org or Rumsferatu shaving his head and joining a vegan commune.