[PigRigger]

Jumping to the end if I may - it is clear, at least to me, that they (DNC/Kerry) were setting the table to insinuate that Bush skipped his physical because of a drug problem.

Kitty Kelly's book release, and some articles tying Bush to another Guardsman (an article was posted here at FR sometime back) who had a drug problem, was to be their defining moment.

The Kerry campaign is falling like a rock; they are/were looking to slime the Presidents character to undermine the publics trust in him. It is the only chance they have at winning the election.

You know what they say about the best laid plans....

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

"....Kitty Kelly's book release..."

Speaking of Kitty Kelly's book:
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml%3Fi=20040927&s=baker
From THE NATION September 14, 2004,
Why Bush Left Texas
by Russ Baker

(snip)
".............Now-prominent, established Texas figures in the military, arts, business and political worlds, some of them Republicans and Bush supporters, talk about Bush's alleged use of marijuana and cocaine based on what they say they have heard from trusted friends. One middle-aged woman whose general veracity could be confirmed told me that she met Bush in 1968 at Hemisfair 68, a fair in San Antonio, at which he tried to pick her up and offered her a white powder he was inhaling. She was then a teenager; Bush would have just graduated from Yale and have been starting the National Guard then. "He was getting really aggressive with me," she said. "I told him I'd call a policeman, and he laughed, and asked who would believe me." (Although cocaine was not a widespread phenomenon until the 1970s, US authorities were struggling more than a decade earlier to stanch the flow from Latin America; in 1967 border seizures amounted to twenty-six pounds.) ....."

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