Bush's Military Record Reveals Grounding and Absence for Two Full Years

Progressive News ^ | Oct 4, 2000 | Robert A. Rogers (USAF - Ret)

[The Real Indepman]

I need a team assist on disproving this. I believe USAF and ANG random drug testing did not begin until the 1980s. I also am certain that drug testing did not become part of a physical until the 1990s unless it was commander directed. If anyone knows of a reference to when USAF and ANG implemented random drug testing please post it. Thanks...

[Texasforever]

Buh Bye

[jimbo123]

Tureeza? Is that you?

[conservativecorner]

"There is circumstantial evidence"??? Nice to have you on the board DAN! ROFLMAO!!

[Drango]

Breaking hard: G.W. Bush dated both Jane Fonda and John Kerry!!!!! Tell everyone you know.

[sinkspur]

This is bullshit. And you might be history.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

The article is from www.democrats.com

Buh bye

[boojumsnark]

Post hoc, ergo propter hoc!

Logic 101. Day 1. Lesson 1.

[ClintonBeGone]

Joe? Joe Lockhart? What are you doing up so late?

[tapatio]

See ya!

[Chummy]

All together now, team: it's disproved.

(Check your source and its author first, Newbie.)

[tapatio]

[Right Wing Professor]

Oh yeah, you're just trying to disprove it,

So sorry you couldn't stick around.

[jimbo123]

Tureeza, you need to keep an eye on your gigolo.

[highpockets]

WOW is this helpful. Thanks for the post.

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?

[FreeKeys]

AND WHEN DID YOU STOP BEATING YOUR WIFE, REAL INDEP MAN?  WHY THE HELL SHOULD ANYBODY HAVE TO PROVE A NEGATIVE?  THAT'S LIKE DEFINING BY NON-EXISTENCE (DIVIDING BY ZERO).  IT'S A TOTAL LOGICAL IRRELEVANCY BASED UPON A TOTAL LOGICAL FALLACY.  SO, OKAY, WHEN DID YOU STOP JERKING OFF AND START BEATING YOUR WIFE, ANYWAY?  AND PROVE YOU DIDN'T FALL OUT OF A SPACESHIP FROM THE SOUTH POLE OF URANUS, WHILE YOU'RE AT IT, JERK.
 

[Maria S]

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.

[quantim]

'Progressive' anything is a buzzword for "I'm an idiot, and I can't think for myself."

[Jean S]

I need a team assist on disproving this. I believe USAF and ANG random drug testing did not begin until the 1980s

Why should we bother? This site is a waste of time.

[wolicy_ponk]