Shrub/Ted-CRUZ-lookalike was "cheeky" to the cop when he was arrested for DWI ('76) of course

[UTUSN]

http://static1.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1971000.1413042071!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_970/bush12n-5-web.jpg

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http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/tennis-great-john-newcombe-opens-george-w-bush-drunk-driving-bust-article-1.1971009
[font size=5]Tennis star John Newcombe opens up about the night George W. Bush was busted for driving drunk
Newcombe has said the 1976 incident took place at a bar near the Bush home in Kennebunkport, Maine, when the pair got into a drinking contest.[/font]

.... "I noticed that George was sort of eyeing me off. I put on a bit of pace and he'd keep pace with me. A little silent game was going on.

"After about four of these, I picked the glass up in my teeth without my hands and skulled it straight down and I said 'What are you made of, George?' And so he had to do that."

The pair continued to drink before staggering back to a car.

Newcombe said his wife offered to drive but Bush insisted he was fine to get behind the wheel.

After the car was pulled over, Newcombe said Bush was a "bit cheeky" to the officer.

Bush, who gave up drinking in 1986, was fined $150 after being found guilty of a misdemeanor.

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[Octafish]

1. I hate drunk drivers.

My parents' good friends lost their daughters -- college students -- to a drunk driver. I lost a best friend, 18 at the time, to a drunk driver. In the years since, I've known several more people who lost their lives to drunk drivers.

This story makes me furious. It also confirms what I think about George W Bush.

[yeoman6987]

2. I can't stand that creepy swimmer either

He seems to love drinking and driving and only caught twice. Revolting person. Oh had to do a google search for him...,Michael phelps. Probably the worst person in history. I literally can't stand the drunk driver.

[Octafish]

3. Phelps has a chance to redeem himself.

The swimmer hasn't hurt anyone yet, AFAIK. He may yet learn.

How does Bush atone for the deaths of millions and the destruction of the planet?

[yeoman6987]

6. Really??????

[Octafish]

8. Yes. Here's one person: Col. Ted Westhusing, USA

Col. Westhusing was in charge of training the new Iraqi army and overseeing civilian contractors. He is remembered as a good man, a brilliant scholar, a brave officer who followed the Cadet Code:

"I will not lie, cheat, or steal, or tolerate those who do.”



Col. Westhusing was the Army's chief ethicist and someone who suspected something was wrong with David Petraeus, way back when. Then, just when he was about to come home to his loving wife and family, he became a suicide.

Is David Petraeus Dirty? Ted Westheusing Said So, and Then He Shot Himself

By Melina Hussein Ripcoco, Brilliant at Breakfast
Alternet.org
April 8, 2008

Ted Westhusing, was a champion basketball player at Jenks High School in Tulsa Oklahoma. A driven kid with a strong work ethic, he would show up at the gym at 7AM to throw 100 practice shots before school. He was driven academically too, becoming a National Merritt Scholarship finalist. His career through West Point and straight into overseas service was sterling, and by 2000 he had enrolled in Emory University to earn his doctorate in Philosophy. His dissertation was on honor and the ethics of war, with the opening containing the following passage: "Born to be a warrior, I desire these answers not just for philosophical reasons, but for self-knowledge." Would that all military commanders took such an interest in the study of ethics and morality and what our conduct in times of war says about our development as human beings. Would that any educational system in this country taught ethics, decision making, or even political science that's not part of an advanced degree anymore.

Ted Westhusing, the soldier, philosopher and ethicist, was given a guaranteed lifetime teaching position and West Point by the time he had finished with his service and his education. he felt like he could do more for his country by trying to shape the minds coming out of the academy that were the ones that would be military commanders. He had settled into that life with his wife and kids, when in 2004 he volunteered for active duty in Iraq, feeling like the experience would help his teaching. He had missed combat in his active duty and it seemed like an important piece for someone who not only philosophized about war, but who was also preparing the military's future leaders.

But more than that, he was sure that the Iraq mission was a just one; he supported the cause and he bought the information that was put in front of him. Considering that vials of powder were being tossed around hearings by the highest level of military commanders how could he not? This was a man who was so steeped in the patriotism of idealistic military fervor that he barely could fit in regular society. His whole being was dedicated to this path, and he was proud to serve his country.

Once in Iraq, he found himself straddling the fence between a questioning philosopher and an unquestioning soldier. Westhusing had thought he was freeing a country in bondage, keeping America safe from a horrible threat, and spreading democracy to a grateful people. But the reality of what was happening in this out of control war was too much for him. His mission was to oversee one of the most important tasks left from the war; retraining the Iraqi military by overseeing the private contractors that had been put in charge of it.

As the assignment went on he found that everywhere he looked he was seeing corrupt contractors doing shoddy work, abusing people, and stealing from the government. These contractors were being paid to do many of the jobs that would normally be done by a regulated military, and they bore out the worst fears of those who don't believe in outsourcing such vital work. He responded to the corruption that he saw by reporting the problems up the line, but the response from his commanding officers was disappointing. He had, for much of his career, idolized military commanders, and in that assignment he found himself with some of the military's most famous faces, doing the most important job, but he was terribly disappointed and alarmed to realize that they were greedy and corrupt themselves.

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http://www.alternet.org/story/81678/is_david_petraeus_dirty_ted_westhusing_said_so,_and_then_he_shot_himself

COMPLETE ORIGINAL ARTICLE: http://www.ripcoco.com/2008/04/is-david-petraeus-dirty-ted-westheusing.html

What kind of person would make money off war? Really.

[bigwillq]

4. Me too. Hated Ted Kennedy (nt)

[Octafish]

7. '' If Teddy knew the bear trap he was walking into at Chappaquiddick...'' - John Dean

On page 121, White House Tapes Paperback Edition, published by New York Times.

I wonder what Nixon's lawyer meant in 1973, four years afterward? Did he refer to a Secret Team-CIA-mafia hit job Ted survived, like the 1964 plane crash with Birch Bayh? White House tapes also show Nixon went along with assigning a murderous Secret Service agents to "guard" Ted.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5538381

Who's been making a killing off war without end for empire of the superrich since Nov. 22, 1963?

[UTUSN]

5. For the record, DWI is just one of my *many* detestations of Shrub & all his BFEE n/t