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.
He does make the allegation. He says "may", but then says the baseball players are avoiding urine tests for the *same reason*.
Enough with the "meaning of is". Rangel meant to allege and that's how I'll take it.
He's backing Annan and he's going to continue this kind of baseless attack on President Bush.
So be it, he is writing his own pathetic and sick little "legacy" (a favorite word of the psycho left).
No, but you don't think a little thing like facts matter the dems, do you?
This has been gone over and over and the Air National Guard did NOT do drug testing as part of the regular physical that GWB would have taken had he planned to maintain flight status. Since he was being rotated off of that status he did not take the physical. Nothing to do with a drug screening that would not have been done anyway.
Chuck you Farlie!
Prove it or STFU.
Air Force Pilots don't "lose" their "flyer's license" when they go overdue on a flight physical. They simply can't fly as a crew-member until they get it. Besides, there is no such thing as a "flyer's license".
One would think His Eminence, Congressman Charlie Dumbsquat, would at least try and get some facts in order before he went about lying about them.
President Bush is a sitting President winning his second term so any BS about his NG service is not only irrelevant at this point it's utter nonsense and obviously meant by the demonrats to keep painting GWB with a nasty brush and keep the anti-Bush part of America steamed up. To what end I have to wonder...
hahaaa! :^D
No.
WHO CARES
If Rangel was significant his happy butt would be looking for a real job, but since he ain't it's ok for him to drag all this old crap out
Hey chuck great Idea about bringing back the draft, so why didn't you vote for your own bill?
Maybe your just a racist swine, who likes do a bit of race baiting BECAUSE YOU ARE USELESS AT DOING ANYTHING ELSE!. Just like most liberals
Just a thought.
Rangel is right.
"He must have had a good reason why he didn't take that physical and lost his flyer's license,"..
He didn't plan on flying again - that's a good reason.
"which had been largely confined to the lunatic fringe"
But Charlie IS the lunatic fringe...
If the Dems took back the House, Charlie would be chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. Can you imagine the possibilities!
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