Was Bush flying "smoke" in his F-102 in 1971?

[SoCalDemocrat]

Dubayah was flying "tropical plants" in his F-102? I hear there's not much room in those things. Maybe they had to dry and bag em first so they would fit?

Too funny!


http://www.motherjones.com/news/outfront/2003/01/ma_217_01.html>http://www.motherjones.com/news/outfront/2003/01/ma_217_01.html


January 1971:
The Guard begins testing for drugs during physicals.
Spring 1971:
Hired by Texas agricultural importer, Bush uses F-102 to shuttle tropical plants from Florida.


Initially I posted this as a joke, but turns out it is true. Bush the drug runner? Bush was taking trips down to Central America? No wonder he couldn't be bothered to show up for guard duty. Ahh the indiscretions of youth.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/campaigns/wh2000/stories/bush072899.htm>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv....899.htm

"We weren't looking for someone, but I thought this would be a talented guy we should hire, and he was available," Gow said. In early 1971, Gow gave Bush a job as a management trainee. He was required to wear a coat and tie and dispatched around the country and even to Central America, looking for plant nurseries that Stratford might acquire. The newly buttoned-down businessman also moved into a garage apartment that he shared with Ensenat off Houston's North Boulevard, an old 1920s neighborhood close to downtown.

"We traveled to all kinds of peculiar places, like Apopka, Florida, which was named the foliage capital of the world," said Peter C. Knudtzon, another Zapata alumnus who was Stratford's executive vice president and Bush's immediate boss.

Once or twice a month, Bush would announce that he had flight duty and off he would go, sometimes taking his F-102 from Houston to Orlando and back. "It was really quite amazing," Knudtzon said. "Here was this young guy making acquisitions of tropical plants and then up and leaving to fly fighter planes."

So let me get this straight. While John Kerry was taking a stand, leading his fellow men, testifying before congress and sleeping outside, our current president was taking joyrides in fighter jets, running botanical errands and ditching his physicals. If the GOP wants to keep playing this juvenile game of doctor, "show me yours and I'll show you mine," this election could be much more promising than I originally thought.

[Moderator]

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