Posted on 08/15/2004 11:42:05 PM PDT by spycatcher
In January 1973, Private Gary Donahue was on his second tour of duty in Vietnam when he stopped with a few other GIs at a sweaty Saigon bar called the Roc Club. It was nearing midnight, and the place was thick with well-lubricated soldiers and local women. A middle-aged Vietnamese crooner prowled a makeshift stage, singing standards like "Mack the Knife" and "Luck Be a Lady."
Suddenly, a trim, clean-cut American grabbed the microphone. "Howdy, folks!" the man yelled in a slight twang. "How ya'll feel about hearing a little music?" Donning a straw Vietnamese hat, the man launched into a raucous, heartfelt version of "Deep in the Heart of Texas" and then "Wooly Bully."
Afterward the mystery performer sat with Donahue and several of his fellow rifle-platoon soldiers, and the men quickly attracted a gaggle of young Vietnamese women. Over beers and shots of Rebel Yell, the stranger told them he was in the country on "government business," but was vague about details. He boasted that he "worked alone." He said he'd traveled throughout the warring country, and when Donahue asked if he'd crossed the border into Cambodia and Laos, the man grinned and winked. Then he showed off a pair of crocodile-skin cowboy boots he'd purchased from a peddler in Saigon. "I've been looking for boots like this for a month," the man said, rubbing his hand over the slick skin. "Mission accomplished!"
"He was sketchy but charming," Donahue recalled. "The girls loved him. Everyone loved him. I assumed he was CIA."
More than two decades passed, and Donahue forgot all about that mysterious American from the Roc Club. But then one night in 1994, while watching a CNN report on a gubernatorial race in Texas, Donahue saw that face again.
LOL
This story has already been posted earlier, at least a week earlier. What I would like to know is whether this story is true or just another "Urban Legend". Does anybody have proof that Bush did all these things? If it is true, do you think he will reveal all this in the coming months? If it is true and he does reveal it, it will make Kerry's 1/4 tour of duty in Vietnam look like a cake walk, and he will have to crawl into a hole and hide.
LOL!!
They were masters of disguise, capable of passing themselves off as immigrants, women, even large animals.
THAT is superb humor.
Hey, If JFK was in Cambodia I guess JWB could have been in Saigon.
This would be the best rope-a-dope ever if Bush were to release the classified duty as an Oct surprise. I did a search and didn't see the story posted earlier. Link it here if anyone finds it.
BUT ASK MOM: WHERE'S MY
[REDACTED] UNDERPANTS? THE
LAST PAIR [REDACTED].
The story's bogus. I don't know why GQ wrote it, but it seems like they're making an attempt to dethrone The Onion as the #1 source of BS news in the media.
LOL! Another freeper suggested that we should say that Bush was in Cambodia at that time!
There are 10 pages of this stuff!
And then there's the last part about how Bush might be "Deep Throat" of Watergate fame. LOL
sheesh
There's a man who leads a life of danger/To everyone he meets, he stays a stranger...
I only wish it WAS true, LOL!
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