WillStG wrote:
Gee, and refighting Vietnam was going so well for
Senator Swiftboat.
Right now I would be more concerned about your man signing up and going
awol.
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http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/....ap/index.html
Lawsuit uncovers Bush Guard records
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Months after insisting it could find no more records
of President Bush's Air National Guard service, the Defense Department
has released more than two dozen pages of files, including Bush's report
card for flight training and dates of his flights.
The Pentagon and Bush's campaign have claimed for months that all
records detailing his fighter pilot career have been made public, but
defense officials acknowledged Tuesday they had found two dozen new
records detailing his training and flight logs after the AP sued and
submitted new requests under the public records law.
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And even Fox has to admit, in their own sneaky way, blaming it on Texans
for Truth (of course not on Bush, himself):
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,131789,00.html
'Texans for Truth' Target Bush's Guard Record
WASHINGTON — After weeks of John Kerry's military record being dogged by
a group known as the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth (search), President
Bush's National Guard record is now under assault by a group calling
itself Texans for Truth
Report: Bush Didn't Meet Service Obligations
Meanwhile, the Boston Globe reported Wednesday that twice during Bush's
Guard service — first when he joined in May 1968 and again before he
transferred out of his unit in mid-1973 to attend Harvard Business
School — he signed documents pledging to meet training commitments or
face a punitive call-up to active duty.
But the Globe reports that Bush didn't meet those commitments nor did he
face punishment. Bush had 60 days after signing the document to find a
new unit but he never signed up with one in the Boston area, the
newspaper reported.
Bush also didn't serve at all for six months in 1972 or for three months
in 1973, the records show, as examined by the Globe, despite the fact
that Bush's attendance was required. Yet he received no punishment for
that, either, but his unit certified in late 1973 that his service was
"satisfactory."
Bush spokesman Dan Bartlett said Bush wouldn't have been honorable
discharged if he hasn't met his requirements and later told the Globe:
"And if he hadn't met his requirements you point to, would have called
him up for active duty for two years."
To add more fuel to the fire, former Texas Lt. Gov. Ben Barnes (search),
a Democrat, is scheduled to appear on "60 Minutes II" Wednesday night,
bemoaning his role in placing Bush in the National Guard.
Barnes apparently told close friends that he recommended Bush for a
pilot's slot in the during the Vietnam War because he was eager to
"collect chits" from an influential political family. There's been a
long-running stink over how Bush got a slot in an outfit known as the
"Champagne Unit" because it included so many sons of prominent Texans.