Posted on 12/04/2004 11:50:37 PM PST by dts32041
Rangel: Bush Had 'Good Reason' to Avoid Nat'l Guard Drug Test
If the White House was hoping that the bitter personal attacks against President Bush would subside after the election, Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-NY, disabused them of the notion on Saturday, when he suggested during a radio interview that Bush used illegal drugs while serving in the National Guard.
After alleging that Bush "deliberately avoided service in Vietnam" by joining the Texas Air National Guard, Rangel told WABC's Mark Simone that Bush missed a 1972 physical, which was required for Guard pilots.
"He must have had a good reason why he didn't take that physical and lost his flyer's license," the Harlem Democrat mused. "We have the same problem with baseball - guys have to take a urine test, you know. They've got very important reasons why they shouldn't take that test."
With his comments on Saturday, Rangel becomes the first congressional Democrat to publicly invoke the drug allegations against Bush, which had been largely confined to the lunatic fringe.
In the 2000 presidential campaign, the media exhaustively investigated rumors that Bush had used cocaine in the 1970s, but failed to find a single witness who could corroborate the ugly speculation.
I was in the Nav from 75 to 81. My boat's crew got tested for drugs in the fall of 81. I got out in November and the navy really started cracking down with frequent drug testing and discharges in 1982. They recognized that they had a problem and went after it.
From what I heard, they were pretty merciless if you were an officer or first class or greater and there were little THC's in your urine.
Well, what else can you expect from a guy who shills for Kofi Annan and the UN.
And BTW, the story still is confined to the lunatic fringe.
Rangel...take a deep breath and pound down a few more cheeseburgers........
They were testing in the seventies too. Random testing by SS# unless there was reason to believe blatant abuse. Then they could order a test without following standard procedure.
BTW, that was Army policy.
Because one old crackhead usually thinks he can detect another.
Rangel has always been a member of the lunatic fringe. That he should be serving in the US House tells you everything you need to know about voters in NY.
Rangel's hoping we'll all forget events of the past year, when his party ran a presidential candidate whose military record was a pack of lies.
It's good to see the liberals have made an early start on gearing up to lose the 2006 election, isn't it?
Drug screening in the USA began in the 1970s as an attempt to curb the spread of drug abuse in the US military forces in Vietnam. The Navy started screening after an accident on the carrier Nimitz revealed that a number of sailors and airmen were taking mind-altering drugs.
http://www.marijuananews.com/marijuananews/cowan/like_it_or_not_heres_the_cup_.htm
Much of the push toward drug testing has come from the federal government. In 1982, the Navy began the first broad-scale random drug testing after an aircraft accident aboard the USS Nimitz uncovered widespread drug use about the ship. The practice soon spread to other branches of the military.
Rangel is just an angry blackman who will be a worthless racist all the rest of his life.
I'm never surprised by what Chahlie might come out with.
I bet he gets his info straight from Bartcop.
http://www.bartcop.com/0482.htm
[Categorically denies funneling contributions to Rangel's campaign]
That is some scary stuff.
Good find, though!
-good times, G.J.P.(Jr.)
haha! I know. They HATE Bush.
There WAS one link on that page that had this pic, though:
http://www.bartcop.com/527dod.htm
Oh ..... "barf alert!"
(Shudder.)
The funny thing is, when I first looked at that link, I thought you were sending me to a fan page for The Simpsons.
That show used to be so damn funny!
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