A lot of stuff is coming back to haunt the American President this week. Greg Palast has a piece on the young George's war record including revelations by former Lt. Governor Ben Barnes of Texas who says that "I got a young man named George W. Bush into the Texas Air Guard - and I'm ashamed." Furthermore, it would seem this was a deliberate move to keep the young George from having to go off to Nam...
And from the Guardian:
Lt Col Jerry Killian, who died in 1984, ordered Mr Bush to be suspended from flight status for those infractions. The memo goes on to note that Mr Bush was trying to transfer to non-flying status with a unit in Alabama, and recommends that the Texas unit fill his flying slot "with a more seasoned pilot from the list of qualified Vietnam pilots that have rotated".
