[AHerald]

Good show. And welcome to FreeRepublic.

[Keith in Iowa]

Welcome to FR.

I'm going to use this thread as rebuttal when needed.

[BigSkyFreeper]

To cut to the chase, the Boston Globe is in the tank for Kerry, as one of their reporters is working in the Kerry campaign, not as a journalist covering Kerry, but as a political hack running around as a surrogate defending Kerry on the campaign trail.

[carl in alaska]

Boston Globe articles are no big deal anymore. The public understands that Globe reporters are little more than partisan DNC operatives. Outside of Boston nobody even reads the thing and it's only use is for lining bird cages.

[nopardons]

Well done and welcome to FR! :-)

[GoLightly]

A fiscal year would be as opposed to a calander year, IOW, from May to May in this instance.

[ambrose]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=wguardwitness

Former Dannelly worker: Bush not AWOL [another eyewitness steps forward]

Posted by ambrose
On News/Activism 02/16/2004 4:19:13 PM PST · 101 replies · 73+ views

THE DECATUR DAILY ^ | 2.16.04 | Eric Fleischauer
Former Dannelly worker: Bush not AWOL By Eric Fleischauer DAILY Staff Writer eric@decaturdaily.com · 340-2435 Retired Master Sgt. James Copeland does not care so much whether people think President Bush went absent without leave in 1972, but one thing he hears bothers him plenty. "Maybe the Bush family was well known in Texas, but we didn't know who he was here. He was just another guy in a flight jacket," Copeland said Sunday. Copeland, who lives in Hartselle, retired from the Air Force on Jan. 31, 1980. He was the disbursement accounting supervisor, a full-time position, for Dannelly Air National...



Memories place Bush in Alabama if records don't ["Why are you still whipping this dead horse?"]

Posted by ambrose
On News/Activism 02/13/2004 10:23:44 PM PST · 11 replies · 44+ views

Atlanta Journal Constitution ^ | 2.14.04
Memories place Bush in Alabama if records don't By DAVE HIRSCHMAN in Montgomery , MONI BASU in Atlanta The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Published on: 02/13/04 The search for proof that young Lt. George W. Bush worked weekends at an Air Force base in Montgomery, 32 years ago has taken on a strange, forensic quality. Family photo (ENLARGE) Lt. Col. John "Bill" Calhoun said he saw the future president each drill period when both men were serving in the National Guard in Montgomery. EMAIL THISPRINT THISMOST POPULAR Dusty dental records and copies of old pay stubs provided by the White House are...



Doctor Recalls Treating Bush

Posted by Hon
On News/Activism 02/15/2004 2:00:58 PM PST · 64 replies · 30+ views

Montgomery Advertiser ^ | February 15, 2004 | Jessica M. Walker
A retired Air National Guard physician recalls giving President Bush a physical in 1972, his son said Saturday, adding another memory to the small but growing pool of recollections of Bush's military service in Montgomery. The memories of Bush's service contradict a dearth of paperwork surrounding his time assigned to the Alabama Air National Guard, but a retired Air National Guard personnel officer said the lack of records could very well be the result of shoddy record-keeping, as opposed to deliquence on Bush's part.



Joppa man: Bush served in Guard in '72

Posted by Conservative Coulter Fan
On News/Activism 02/21/2004 9:57:49 AM PST · 11 replies · 20+ views

THE DECATUR DAILY ^ | Eric Fleischauer
Not only was George W. Bush fulfilling his National Guard duties in 1972, he was already showing the conservative political ideology that is now the bane of many Democrats, according to a Joppa man. Joe Holcombe, 71, was the office manager for Winton "Red" Blount in his unsuccessful race for the U.S. Senate in 1972. Bush was the county coordinator for Blount's campaign, Holcombe said. The Blount family and the Bush family were good friends, Holcombe said. Blount lost to Morgan County native and U.S. Sen. John Sparkman. Bush joined Blount's campaign "a little before or a little after the...

[fuzzy122]

Great post. Welcome to FR!
I think you'll fit in well here.
Keep up the good work!

Stay Strong,
Fuzzy122

[Always Right]

I am glad to see the Bush campaign is on top of rebutting these lies. Unlike the Kerry campaign who has not yet to refute anything the Swift Boat Veterns had to say. All Kerry's camp did was to smear the 200 plus veterns.

[Tamzee]

The author of the Boston Globe hitpiece is Walter V. Robinson....found GUILTY OF LIBEL in 1987 for an "article" he wrote about a Republican politician.

"the jury found that the defendants had published false, defamatory statements with knowledge of their falsity or while having serious doubts about their truth..."

http://www.catholicsandsurvivors.net/lakian.htm

Robinson was found guilty along with the paper he wrote for, The Boston Globe, and yet the Globe has kept him on all these years and elevated him to an editor.

Robinson was also the originator of the "Bush's missing year in the NG" smear. He wrote the first article that alleged this in 2000. http://www.boston.com/news/politics/president/bush/articles/2000/05/23/1_year_gap_in_bushs_guard_duty/

[mass55th]

One other point I'd like to make that no one in the press seems to be picking up on. In 1968, Dubya's father was serving his first term as a Republican Congressman from Texas. In the fall of 1968, he would be elected to his second term. Obviously George H.W. Bush, had enough political connections in Texas to be able to get the nod from the party to run for that office, and then run again for reelection. So my question is this: Why would George H.W. Bush find it necessary to approach a Democratic State Legislator to help his son get into the Air National Guard in Texas, when it would seem that as a Congressman, he could more or less make those arrangements himself if he'd wanted to?

The point is that there were politically powerful people in both parties in Texas, and if Dubya's father had wanted to help his son get into the Guard, then he certainly wouldn't have had to go to a Democrat to get it done.

[conservative in nyc]

In a striking coincidence, the Boston Globe's sister publication, the New York Slimes, reprinted Gerald Lechliter's analysis of President Bush's national guard service records here. And Op-Ed contributor Nicholas Kristof just happened to decide to run an op-ed piece on the Bush AWOL subject today as well. What a remarkable coincidence! I am sure this had nothing to do with Kerry's attacks on the President and Vice President during his midnight breakdown last Thursday, and Terry McAwful and the DNC haven't given any marching orders to the press.

It's funny how the Slimes still hasn't even printed an op-ed piece analyzing the Christmas in Cambodia lie, or reprinted The Bandit's analysis that Kerry "Band of Brother" David Alston was, at most, on Kerry's boat for a week, despite earlier claims by Kerry's own website to the contrary.

Anyway, Gerald Lechliter's allegation is that Bush had to satisfy two requirements. First, he needed to satisfy a yearly point requirement from May to May. Second, he needed to satisfy a fiscal year "satisfactory duty" requirement under Air Forces Manual Section 35-3. According to Mr. Lechliter, this required regular attendance at monthly drills with no more than four absences per fiscal year (July 1-June 30), and missed drills allegedly needed to be made up before the next monthly drill and in any event before the end of the fiscal year.

Is this anywhere close to correct?

[maryz]

The whole National Guard is another "issue" where the Dems are working both sides of the street: On the one hand, they sneer that National Guard service is just a dodge to get out of Vietnam; on the other hand, they express utter indignation that Bush may have ducked out of part of his National Guard service (however hard they have to work to trump up the charge). They seem to have pre-sawed off the branch they're clinging to.

[angkor]

Under the terms of his service contract John Kerry had a two-year Ready Reserve committment from Dec 16, 1969 to Dec 16 1971, and a one-year Standby Reserve committment from Dec 16 1971 to Dec 16 1972.

John Kerry was not terminated as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Naval Reserve until Feb 16 1978 (in fact Kerry's 12-year service was exclusively with the USNR).

Where is the missing three years of John Kerry's Ready Reserve and Standby Reserve documentation from the Reserve Manpower Center, Naval Training Center, Bainbridge, Maryland, circa Dec 1969 to Dec 1972?

[harrycarey]

Very interesting. Thanks

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[YaYa123]

I'm usually not so lazy as to ask for a link, but this is such a good thread, I think it would be great to have Byron York's article linked.

And this one too:

http://www.chronwatch.com/content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=9259

[skinkinthegrass]

Great entrance..Sterling. Welcome to FR. :))

[listenhillary]

Bump

[centurion316]

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