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Here's what I have so far:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1066746/posts

Is President Bush a Deserter? How the military defines the crime.
Slate ^ | Brendan I. Koerner
There are LINKS in this article to follow, so click on the link and take a gander at Bill Hobbs debunking of this crap.

Was Bush "AWOL"?

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

 

 

Debunkers: 

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1064541/posts

Bush 'Desertion' Charge Debunked
NewsMax ^ | 1/24/04 | Limbacher

...in the months before the 2000 presidential election, the New York Times pretty much demolished this Democratic Party urban legend...

Related thread from Oct. 2000.

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1072645/posts
Is AWOL Story Source Will Turnipseed Related To "Iraqi Shield" Left-Wing Bush-Basher Tom Turnipseed?
Various | February 6, 2004 | Myself

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1073076/posts
Debunking The Bush AWOL Story - From The Horse's Mouth
Brig. Gen. Turnipseed | February 6, 2004 | Hon
Hon, whether this will put the quietus to this slander, or just fade into the background noise of "all the other stories the Bush-Haters propagate" is anyone's guess...

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1074224/posts
Reporter Who Made Up AWOL Story Has History Of Libeling GOP Candidates
Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts ^ | March 10, 1987 | N/A

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1075316/posts
White House releases Bush's National Guard records
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ^ | February 10, 2004 | N/A

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Blast from the Past Bump.

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1075519/posts
Bush Releases the Evidence: Newly released records show he did indeed serve in 1972. :
National Review ^ | February 10, 2004 | Byron York

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To set the record straight:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1075966/posts
30,000 Combat Sorties -- Air National Guard in Viet Nam
Air National Guard Web Site ^

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1075896/posts
Bush and I were Lieutenants (Fellow Pilot Comes to Bush's Defense)
The Washington Times Letters to the Editor ^ | 2-11-4 | Col. William Campenni (ret

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1075943/posts
Democrats Seek More Proof of Bush Service
AP ^ | Feb. 11, 2004 | DEB RIECHMANN

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1076126/posts
Round Two of White House Press Corps Smear Campaign; Kerry's 1992 Statements Discussed
2/11/2004 | Jeff Gannon

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1076072/posts
Media failed to find facts behind Bush's service record
Chicago Sun-Times ^ | February 11, 2004 | Thomas Lipscomb

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1076166/posts
The Shattered Pretense of Objectivity
Author | February 11th, 2004 | Robert Escalona

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1076190/posts?page=5#5
Can you believe the New York Times did a graph on Bush's National Guard Years!
NY Times ^ | 2/11/04
yea, reminds me of the one they did on Clinton's service, the Broaderrick rape, the Flowers affair...uh...

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1076186/posts
White House Disclosing President Bush's Full Military Record
CNN ^ | February 11, 2004 | Lou Dobbs

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1076243/posts
Officer Who Claims W Discarded Records Is A Bush-Hating Crackpot
Radio Pacifica ^

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1076294/posts
Colin Powell Guts Demo Brown on AWOL
Fox News ^ | 2/11/04 | AP

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1076313/posts
Bush Did His Service: It's the Press that is A.W.O.L.
Oregon Magazine ^ | February 11, 2004 | Thomas Lipscomb

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1076330/posts
Cleland drops a political grenade
WND.com ^ | February 11, 2004 | Ann Coulter

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Speaking of Morons-

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1076538/posts

AWOL Attack Off Target
TownHall.com ^ | 2/11/04 | Linda Chavez

 

 

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1076535/posts?page=5#5

Ann Coulter: Cleland drops a political grenade
Universal Press Syndicate ^ | February 12, 2004 | Ann Coulter

OK, Anne's correct about how he lost his Senate seat, but let's set the story straight on his service--

 

 

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1076522/posts

Twin Cities vets not up in arms over Bush [re "AWOL" allegations]
Star Tribune ^ | 2.11.04

"Their attempt to divide America only weakens our ability to fight the war on terrorism."
LEADING PROTESTS AFTER HE LEFT VIETNAM. I JUST GOT THIS. PASS IT ALONG.

http://www.usvetdsp.com/jf_kerry.htm

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1076545/posts

Bush met military obligation [Alabama Witness Alert!]
The Birmingham News ^ | 02/11/04 | MARY ORNDORFF and BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE

You know that I have been quite ambivalent about Bush since the amnesty and the spending, but I am furious over this smear by the dems and the press. I am actually doing work for the party again because of it.