Posted on 09/24/2004 6:22:01 PM PDT by The Real Indepman
"Why would a physical exam present a problem for 1st Lt. Bush? A little-know fact reported in the London Times and the New York Post on June 18, 2000 gives a powerful clue. In April 1972 – the same month that Bush "gave up" flying – all the overseas and stateside military services began subjecting a small random sample in their ranks to substance abuse testing for alcohol and drugs. The Pentagon had announced its intention to do so initially back on December 31, 1969. If Bush reported for his scheduled physical in August 1972, he could have been subject to selection for a random substance abuse test.
Bush's spokesman told the London Times that Bush "was not aware of any changes that required a drug test." But this does not hold up under scrutiny. In 1969 – the year following Bush's enlistment – the Pentagon notified every unit in the military that it would implement random drug testing at some point in the near future. When that moment arrived – April 1972 – every enlisted person and officer throughout the military, both overseas and stateside, would have been aware of this dramatic change. After all, the whole purpose of the random drug testing was to make it absolutely clear to everyone in the Armed Forces that the Pentagon would not tolerate substance abuse of any kind by anyone.
There is circumstantial evidence pointing to substance abuse by Bush during this period. On the campaign trail, Bush has stated that he has not used drugs or alcohol in excess since 1974. But this chronology makes it possible that he was in fact abusing one or more of these substances in the summer of 1972."
Buh Bye
Tureeza? Is that you?
"There is circumstantial evidence"??? Nice to have you on the board DAN! ROFLMAO!!
Breaking hard: G.W. Bush dated both Jane Fonda and John Kerry!!!!! Tell everyone you know.
This is bullshit. And you might be history.
The article is from www.democrats.com
Buh bye
Logic 101. Day 1. Lesson 1.
Joe? Joe Lockhart? What are you doing up so late?
See ya!
All together now, team: it's disproved.
(Check your source and its author first, Newbie.)
So sorry you couldn't stick around.
Everyone should spend time looking into this.
Your a great help to FR.
Keep up the wonerful posts.
What was John and Theresa wearing today?
This is all I could find so far; where’s Congressman Billybob when we need him?
A TIMELINE OF DRUG TESTING IN THE UNITED STATES
From Nixon to Bush (both of them), each successive regime has made the Fourth Amendment a casualty in the Drug War.
2002-09-19
http://www.hightimes.com/ht/legal/content.php?bid=131&aid=3
1967 - Seeking election to the Presidency, candidate Richard Nixon declares law-and-order the number one goal of his proposed administration with special emphasis on a War on Drugs: "As I look over the problems in this country" he told supporters at Disneyland, "I see one that stands out particularly - the problem of narcotics."
"I believe in civil rights," Nixon averred. "But the first civil right of every American is to be free from violence, and we are going to have an administration that restores that right in the United States of America."
1969 -Washington, D.C. Department of Corrections tests the urine of 129 District prisoners in an effort to prove a casual relationship between crime and drugs. Since prisoners, by definition, have mitigated rights, no constitutional violation is cited. An imperfect study at best, the results are ambiguous and debatable.
1971 - Acting on recommendations from the White House, the Pentagon prepares to randomly drug test soldiers returning from Vietnam. Since drug use is an infraction of military code and automatically results in a dishonorable discharge, many servicemen would be placed in legal jeopardy, and the result would be a public relations nightmare. To solve the problem President Nixon - acting as commander-in-chief - sends a one-page memo to the secretary of defense ordering that drug use will no longer be considered a crime under the military code of justice. This single act reverses decades of military policy and simultaneously introduces random urine testing as a matter of public policy.
1975 - the U.S. Supreme Court declared constitutional an "administrative search exception" to the Fourth Amendment [Committee for GI Rights v. Callaway 518 F. 2D 466, 474 D.C. Cir. 1975] with regard to random drug testing of military personnel, reasoning that the state's strong public interest to ensure military readiness outweighs the privacy interests of servicemen who already serve under considerably diminished Fourth Amendment rights.
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