Bush used his National Guard jet to ferry around tropical plants

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A blast from the past, anyone remember this??

http://atrios.blogspot.com/2004_04_25_atrios_archive.html#108328592825260154

I have to admit that I'm a wee bit shocked that a Bush-hater like me has never seen this one before. Over at Trippi's new digs, Change for America, Adam Mordecai brings us this excerpt from a 1999 WaPo article:

"We weren't looking for someone, but I thought this would be a talented guy we should hire, and he was available," Gow said. In early 1971, Gow gave Bush a job as a management trainee. He was required to wear a coat and tie and dispatched around the country and even to Central America, looking for plant nurseries that Stratford might acquire. The newly buttoned-down businessman also moved into a garage apartment that he shared with Ensenat off Houston's North Boulevard, an old 1920s neighborhood close to downtown.

"We traveled to all kinds of peculiar places, like Apopka, Florida, which was named the foliage capital of the world," said Peter C. Knudtzon, another Zapata alumnus who was Stratford's executive vice president and Bush's immediate boss.

Once or twice a month, Bush would announce that he had flight duty and off he would go, sometimes taking his F-102 from Houston to Orlando and back. "It was really quite amazing," Knudtzon said. "Here was this young guy making acquisitions of tropical plants and then up and leaving to fly fighter planes."

<b>forth between Houston and his job in Florida. And, then, he was flying to Central America to locate high quality "tropical plants?" WTF?

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1. coke

you can stuff alot of coke in a fighter jet..those big tropical house plants are just a tad to big

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2. maybe the tropical plants he was flying around was in fact the cocoa plant

heh heh :)

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3. And pay attention to who these guys are he worked for, too.

Friends of Dad in Zapata Oil. I think that was a CIA front company.....kind of makes you wonder. From what I've read, his flying skills on a Cessna were pretty bad. Why would I think he'd be jetting around in an F102 between Houston and Florida?

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4. Hmmm....all quite odd

Too many "coincidences". Maybe when Dubya was AWOL he was actually doing stuff for the CIA?