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2004 US Presidential Election
February 13, 2004
Bush | Bush Orders All Of His Vietnam-Era Records Released

Via Channel3000:

Countering attacks on his service in the Air National Guard, President George W. Bush on Friday ordered the release of all of his Vietnam-era military records.

Hundreds of pages of documents detailed Bush’s service in the Guard in Texas and his temporary duty in Alabama while working on a political campaign there in the early 1970s.

Democrats have questioned whether Bush ever showed up for duty in Alabama. Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe has said Bush was “AWOL” — absent without leave — and called him “a deserter.” McAuliffe said commanders in Alabama have no recollection of the president serving there.

White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan said the president wanted everything made public.



Posted by Alan at February 13, 2004 06:53 PM | TrackBack
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Friday…..
8 PM Et…..
Main Reporters Home For The Weekend…
Trying to get something out with as little damage as possible?????
Time will tell

Posted by: John at February 13, 2004 08:01 PM

Friday…..
8 PM Et…..
Main Reporters Home For The Weekend…
Trying to get something out with as little damage as possible?????
Time will tell

Posted by: John at February 13, 2004 08:01 PM

Friday….
8 PM ET…
Leftests latest pet theory crushed, Liberals attack Bush for ruining their cred. No one cares. Film at 11

Posted by: Brian at February 13, 2004 08:23 PM

Pot - Kettle. Kettle - uhhh. Hmmm. Forget it.

If anyone thinks there was ever a big story in whether or no President Bush was a Deserter, or AWOL, they must have been smokin’ - POT!

Posted by: Cap'n DOC at February 13, 2004 09:06 PM

re bush’s service. Documentation showing that he went missing for 2 years, and was officially admonished for such.

http://www.calpundit.com/archives/003220.html

Even more remarkable is the fact that the mainstream media have failed to report that Bush’s staff destroyed some of his miliatary documents

http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=news_crime&Number=1287671&page=&view=&sb=&o=&vc=1&t=-1

Posted by: chris at February 13, 2004 10:27 PM

chris, you caught in a time warp?

Posted by: CERDIP at February 13, 2004 10:59 PM

chris, you are out of the loop. Calpundit is all under this like dead flies on a windshield. Your link is 4 days old and the content is verifiably wrong.

And the “destroyed files” witness at the other link turns out to have been caught in a bald-faced lie.

Posted by: CERDIP at February 13, 2004 11:02 PM

<<< crawls back into his hole… sobbing :(

Posted by: chris at February 13, 2004 11:13 PM

As promised to CERDIP

two people in this administration that i had full faith and confidence in were Cheney and Powell. No comment on Cheney. Found these tidbits from Colin Powell (sell out?).

He doesn’t say that they were draft dodgers, but he wasn’t too happy about the privileged treatment. Amazing how closely his words apply to the current situation.

My American Journey - Colin Powell; all from Chapter 6 - Back to Vietnam

“I am angry that so many of the sons of the powerful and well placed…managed to wangle slots in the Reserve and National Guard units.”

“[Our Vietnam] policy had become bankrupt. Our political leaders had led us into a war for the one-size-fits-all rationale of anticommunism.” “Fall [Streets Without Joy] makes it painfully clear that we had almost no understanding of what we had gotten ourselves into.” “War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that the people understand and support…”

And it looks like he knew (as a senior officer) about some of what Kerry reported from the Detroit meeting…
(still from chapter 6) “…the troops became numb to what appeared to be endless and mindless slaughter.” Cap’n this sounds to me like a generalization of what Kerry reported to the Senate. Just because the leaders were corrupt and some people did bad stuff, doesn’t mean everybody did.

Posted by: carl at February 13, 2004 11:21 PM

carl - I don’t get your point?

Posted by: CERDIP at February 13, 2004 11:35 PM

CER-

told you that i would provide some information on this questionable service thing. Colin Powell seems to have had a similar sense of the privileged characters as i was suggesting. didn’t want to just sling crap, but provide researched info instead.

CP also speaks about VN in ways that would have been nice if they had informed the apparent rush to war in Iraq. Don’t get me wrong. It’s a good thing that Saddam isn’t Passing Go anymore. It’s a sad thing that the American people were misled. I do not believe that the people understood and supported. I am deeply concerned that decent people like Powell are apparently being used. And that there doesn’t seem to be a way through the thicket of crap.

Posted by: carl at February 13, 2004 11:44 PM

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