[backhoe]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/906471/posts

The Truth About "George W. Bush's Resume"
Curt King

The Real Military Record of George W. Bush: Not Heroic, but Not AWOL, Either

[Peach]

Saved for election time; it will need to be debunked AGAIN.

[Ann Archy]

Weasley Clark is CERTIFIABLE...just like his idol, Michael Moore.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

Related thread from Oct. 2000.

[Cubs Fan]

I knew the day I heard this AWOL stuff that it had to be BS. There's no way a media that hates GWB would keep silent the way it did.

And indeed the Times, one of the most blatently liberal, if not THE most blatently liberal publication around, debunks the myth.

Michael Moore is once again revealed for the Big Fat liar he is.

[Sloth]

Bookmarked for future reference.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

I like how morons jump up and down and scream "There's no record of it". 1971 through 1973 are the worst years to search for military records because the high number of returning troops from Vietnam overloaded the admin system. Plenty of paper got lost then.

[bolobaby]

It's called "SUTA" - Substitute Unit Training Assembly. National guardsmen SUTA drills *all the time*. It's a mechanism that was put into place because the Guard understands that being a civilian and a soldier at the same time sometimes produces conflicts.

I can't think of a single guardsman I know who hasn't SUTAed a drill before - including myself.

[Montfort]

Funny how the story debunking this myth is not as well traveled as the urban myth that crats keep citing as fact.

[petuniasevan]

Bookmarked for the edification of the union kooks and loons at my workplace.

Who am I kidding? They would believe that Bush eats babies for breakfast if the AFL-CIO told them to.

[latrans]

Turnipseed? Indeed!

[Mo1]

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[Poser]

Bump for use against liberal swine.

[Genyous]

Bump

[IrishCatholic]

Thanks, saved for later

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Presidential candidate Gen. Wesley Clark suggested during New Hampshire's presidential debate Thursday night that the facts of whether Bush ran out on his National Guard unit in 1972 and 1973 are in dispute.

"The facts are in dispute" is another cowardly phrase that democrats love to use. All it takes is one looney out there to make an unsubstantiated negative assertion, or more cowardly still, say they saw it on the internet and "the facts are in dispute." Ninety-nine million people can understand a set of facts, but, if one crazy partisan denies them, then, "the facts are in dispute."

Call me crazy, but what that phrase means to me is that there is a genuine difference of opinion with substantial backing and evidence for each side of an issue.

It would be slanderous to say that it was Wesley Clark and not Michael Jackson who molested a young boy. I know that this statement is patently false. But, someone cruising the internet could take the phrase (marked in bold) and write in to his local paper. "Hey, it says on the internet that it was Wesley Clark and not Michael Jackson who molested a young boy.

Then, George Bush could tell Tim Russert that, although he doesn't really know what happened in the case of the molested boy, the facts are in dispute. One group says that the perpetrator is Michael Jackson. Another says it's Wesley Clark. A third says the boy was molested by someone else. A fourth says he wasn't molested at all.

This type of attack is what passes, in the democrat party, as honest discourse. That spinning sound is not merely caused by the democrats' massaging the truth. It is also caused by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison, spinning in their graves.

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

Peter Jennings' debate challenge to Clark that the story is "unsupported by the facts"

I saw the Peter Jennings' exchange with Wesley Clark, and I must say that I was perplexed. Jennings, a liberal who has bashed Bush in the past, is now defending Bush??? Props to Jennings.

[Zeroisanumber]

Wait...Is this Newsmax? Are they actually quoting the NY Times as a credible source?

[pabianice]

Military paperwork is infamously bad. The Navy discharged me... while I was serving in good standing in the Reserves. Came as a shock, I can tell you. Took a year to get the paperwork squared away again.

Beyond that, drill rescheds are the norm in the air reserves, not the exception.

[DeweyCA]

Does anyone know what is the exact date of the original NYT article, and on what page? Precise documentation will make our case stronger.