BUSH: THE MISSING YEARS (Bush in Vietnam?)

GQ | 7/27/04 | Jason Gay

[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.

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[spycatcher]

Here's the Swift Boat that Bush used when conducting his solo missions into Cambodia (Whenever Kerry was recuperating from his rice injuries and splinters)

[Irishguy]

yep ..HA HA HA....

where was Bush in 47...was he in Roswell NEw Mexico...??


it doesnt matter about 1970...who cares. this is John Kerry speak...dont look at the following 30 years look at my time in Vietnam. yep these months make me commander in chief..

I dont care what Bush did, if he drank, if he didnt, actually i hope he did..it shows a lot of character to have a problem and sort it out, and then go on to be the President of the US....what i am interested in is now..and his actions in the last 4 years...

[idkfa]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1189530/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1183863/posts

[spycatcher]

Thanks. A search for "missing years" didn't work for me.

WorldNetDaily was linking the story earlier, but has now pulled it and linked this instead:

Magazine satire makes president out to be rockin' spy in Vietnam

[Darkwolf377]

Damn that was funny! Thanks for posting this.

Those who think this is a serious article--breathe. Relax. Breathe. Repeat.

[hanasolo]

this has got to be true!!!

[Condor51]

"If the White House wanted them to pop out of a hole in Cambodia, they could do that. But if they wanted them to ball Janis Joplin, they could do that too. Those guys could do anything."

No disrespect to Dubya or the writer (Jason), but that was me. And yeah I 'did' Janis - she was a lousy (blank). Always drunk on Southern Comfort.

And yes I can do anything. Yesterday I made a cold fusion reactor, and today I'm gonna make an Alternate Universe in my garage based on the new 'M' theory in Astrophysics. (that string theory was soooooooo wrong)

And you guys will LOVE my new Universe, it'll only consists of Freepers and "Paleocons" -- no RINO's or RATS or enviro-nazis. We'll all have big honkin' SUVs. It'll be Valhalla! (I'm still debating if there should be a California?!?) Oh and we'll have guns -- lots of GUNS!!!

[verity]

Elvis lives!

[Snapple]

Some people here are pretty gullible. The article is a SATIRE. Haven't you guys ever read Swift's "A Modest Proposal"? It is a proposal to eat yearling Irish children.
The English thought it was a good idea.

This was a very good satire.

[rintense]

HAHAHAHA! Bush was in Nam and Kerry is the fool. How frickin ironic. Would be cool if it were true.

[Condor51]

I know it was satire - just like my posted comment was.

However, Janis was always drunk on Southern Comfort -- not that there's anything wrong with that :-)

[Final Authority]

I read the whole story with interest until the Arabic part then I fell out of my chair laughing with the McCain part then the Watergate insinuation put me over. Good piece of fiction.

[ThanhPhero]

This is BS. In one year no one taught GW 4 or 5 languages.