Posted on 09/15/2004 11:30:46 AM PDT by rocklobster11
Now that we know the memos were forged, the question is who created them and why? It has been reported that these memos came
to CBS from the DNC and may have originated by a disgruntled former Army National Guard member who has an axe to grind with
President Bush. I'm sure the who will be discovered by other news sources soon. I want to focus on the why.
When I originally saw these memos, I couldn't figure out what the purpose of them was. There didn't seem to be any new facts in
them, as everyone agrees that Bush missed his annual flight examination which was scheduled for July 1972, and had his flight
status suspended on August 1. These memos just appeared to provide backup.
However, upon further analysis, it appears that these memos were meant to lay the ground work for further charges that Bush used
cocaine while in the National Guard and had to be quickly shuffled out of Texas to Alabama to cover it up. These are rumors that
have circled amongst the Bush haters, but there has been no proof, and the timeline didn't really support the conspiracy
theories. Lets look at how these memos were an attempt to forward this rumor:
What is behind each of the memos:
| Fake Memo | What is says | Why was it created |
| May 4,1972 | Orders Bush to get his annual physical within 10 days | To change the timeline for Bush getting his annual physical, which wasn't actually due until the end of July. Create the impression that Bush left in a hurried panic for Alabama to avoid drug testing |
| May 19, 1972 | Phone call from Bush asking about getting transfered to Alabama because he wants to run a campaign. Followed by discussion of getting the physical later if he decided to keep flying |
Show that Bush left town on May 15, called his commander after the fact to see if he could transfer to Alabama. Also, create a confirmation that Killian was aware and ok with the fact that Bush missed the physical. If the order from May 4 was disobeyed, you would expect some sort of official reprimand or follow-up. Since there is nothing in the record, the May 19 memo provides an answer. |
| August 1,1972 | Bush suspended from flight status due to failure to perform to USAF/TexANG standards and failute to meet annual physical examination as ordered. Plus order of the creation of a flight review board IAW AFM35-13. |
Make it look like there was something more to the suspension of flight status than just missing the physical. Create the impression that a flight review board was ordered, so that they can then ask why Bush has not released this document (ie, there must be a cover-up). It must show that Bush was suspended for using drugs |
| August 18, 1972 | CYA Memo about being pressured to sugar-coat the Bush review. Mentions something about backdating information | Perhaps to show that there was some pressure from higher up for a coverup. However, I wonder what record would need to be "backdated" in order to fit in with the subsequent conspiracy theory that they plan to release. Perhaps we will find out, or perhaps they will abandon the next phase of the plan now that the forgeries have been uncovered |
Why did 60 Minutes run this story last week? I believe it was meant to be a lead in to the Kitty Kelly book, which also makes
these unfounded claims of Bush drug use. 60 Minutes expected there to be a 4-5 day news cycle discussing how Bush had not
completed his guard duty or had been given preferential treatment. After the Kitty Kelly book came out, they could look at them
again in a new light to help spread the rumors of Bush's drug use.
yes ... but I thought all that was a given, known or realized by most everybody. Though the latest addition to the scheme is the coordinated video produced by the DNC.
Sounds like how the DNC Bush smear was supposed to go down to me. Now if we could only implicate the RATs who are responsible, we could take the whole party down.
Very cogent, and it fits what's happening now with the DNC's new attack commercial, and only by the grace of FReepers and Bloggers, has this further plan been foiled. How sweet it is!
I didn't really see the point.
Even if everything was true, so what? They don't really compare with Kerry's leading a violent, communist-linked, anti-war organization.
Danny boy thought this was going to sink the President?
I agree. One of the 'extra' USA Today forged docs (the first one in the .pdf) has a link between Lts. Bush and Bath, the latter having some kind of drug problem in the NG. I think CBS was going to reveal these extra two docs in a later report, but they were revealed too early by USA Today in their pdf. CBS doesn't have links to the 2 extra docs on their website but the experts they consulted saw those docs and mentioned that on-air.
This whole campaign, the DNC's "Operation Fortunate Son" has been run to link President Bush and Laura to a history of drug abuse and drug selling. It seems to have fallen flat on its face.
This assumes that they did drug testing on routine physicals back then. Does anyone know how to find out which drug tests were available and were they done on the military?
You show "1972" above ...
What did Dan know, and when did he know it?
What did Dan know, and when did he know it?
What did Dan know, and when did he know it?
What did Dan know, and when did he know it?
What did Dan know, and when did he know it?
What did Dan know, and when did he know it?
Where is info on Bath having a drug problem? That would nail this story and show that CBS was a party to the fraud
Bingo, I guess you just answered my question.
All of this would, of course, come out slowly over the next few weeks, in follow up "investigations".
You may be right but I think the reason is a lot simpler. Just to keep questioning Bush's past in the news and, Like a poster mentioned, coordinate it with the Dems new attack ad. Boy, did that boomerang. Nice job Freepers.
The memos took the focus off of the Swiftboat Vets and Kerry's record..
"A bevy of New York Times reporters have this: "CBS has refused to say how it obtained the documents. But one person at CBS, who spoke on condition of anonymity, confirmed a report in Newsweek that Bill Burkett, a retired National Guard officer who has charged that senior aides to then-Governor Bush had ordered Guard officials to remove damaging information from Mr. Bush's military personnel files, had been a source of the report. This person did not know the exact role he played."
For tis sport, to have the engineer Hoist with his own petard...
"Linking President Bush and Laura to a history of drug abuse and drug selling. It seems to have fallen flat on its face."
Because, it is so absurd it is laughable! Nobody in their right mind (which excludes the DNCCBS) would make a charge like this without tons of incontrovertable evidence. It just made the DNCCBS look like lunatics IMO.
What's next, the President enjoys necrophilia?
Laura Bush is a Vampire?
:o)
From another thread last night
To: plushaye
Yes, you have it right, with one missing detail that I read on DU. They claim that there was another pilot decommissioned at the same time for cocaine use and that Bush must be guilty by association, but the records were scrubbed. Don't ask me how they accessed the other guys records.
158 posted on 09/14/2004 8:35:44 PM PDT by Eva
I did read the same thing on one of those awolbush-type websites when I was checking them out. They're rather horrific so I didn't stay too long on them but this same thing has been spouted by the x-files types for a while.
The old DUI story hurt the President in 2000, it looks like the rats were banking on a similar "coke" story.
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