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Debunking The Bush AWOL Story - From The Horse's Mouth
Brig. Gen. Turnipseed | February 6, 2004 | Hon

Posted on 02/06/2004 3:58:26 PM PST by Hon

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To: Hon
Thank you for both investigating this baseless AWOL charge and sharing your interview results with FR/other news outlets!!!!! KUDOS FOR A JOB WELL DONE!
181 posted on 02/06/2004 7:37:51 PM PST by DrDeb
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To: Hon
Your persistence and ultimate success in pursuing the truth regarding Brig. Gen. Turnipseed's role in the AWOL story is amazing! Congratulations!
182 posted on 02/06/2004 7:38:54 PM PST by windchime (Podesta about Bush: "He's got four years to try to undo all the stuff we've done." (TIME-1/22/01))
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To: ThomasPaine2000
That explains the "AUTH:" before it.

Would it be expected to list his equivalency training in Alamba on that form? Or would they not bother?

183 posted on 02/06/2004 7:39:31 PM PST by Hon
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To: Hon
To abort his first tour, he volunteered for Swift boat duty: A good position at the time, because the Swift boats would give him a "command-tour" (promotion bait!) and they were serving way off-shore. After he got Swift boat duty (2nd tour) the boats were in the middle of real tough duty riverine duty.

This was the period he began complaining vigorously in meeting with Zumwalt and Abrams, and others above his chain of command, about US policy.

When he got the three minor wounds (none of which even required a day off!), and petitioned his commander to go home based on the three wounds, his CO was happy to get rid of him by approving the the US admiral's aide assignment back in Mass.

Kerry's Silver Star was for shooting a wounded VC in the back as the VC was running away from the boat during a fire fight. Few other details are released.
184 posted on 02/06/2004 7:39:41 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only support FR by donating monthly, but ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE
From The Washington Post:

"According to the records, Bush had been instructed to report to William Turnipseed, an officer in the Montgomery unit. "Had he reported in, I would have had some recall and I do not," Turnipseed, a retired brigadier general, told the Globe in 2000. "I had been in Texas, done my flight training there. If we had a first lieutenant from Texas, I would have remembered." .....

"....Reached in Montgomery yesterday, Turnipseed stood by his contention that Bush never reported to him. But Turnipseed added that he could not recall if he, himself, was on the base much at that time."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A7372-2004Feb2?language=printer

185 posted on 02/06/2004 7:55:49 PM PST by YaYa123
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To: Hon
I was in the TX National Guard working in their public affirs office during the 2000 election. THere were over two THOUSAND FOIA requests filed for Pres. Bush's 201 File (official military records). They were digging for some kind of dirt, including the AWOL myth. Nothing was found. Wonder how many FOIA requests were made for Algore's or are being made now for John F'n Kerry's?
186 posted on 02/06/2004 8:22:35 PM PST by txradioguy (I Layeth The Smaketh Down!!!)
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To: Hon
Eventhough the Rats have been talking about this nonstop lately, I think its a good thing for all this to come out 9 months before the election. Crucify them with it!
187 posted on 02/06/2004 8:24:04 PM PST by Democratshavenobrains
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To: gaspar
Yeah and two years later the NY Times, the owner of the Globe did their own investigation and found the original AWOL story to be false. THough lately the Times has seemed to have "forgotten" about that in their reporting of the story.
188 posted on 02/06/2004 8:27:06 PM PST by txradioguy (I Layeth The Smaketh Down!!!)
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To: txradioguy
"Wonder how many FOIA requests were made for Algore's or are being made now for John F'n Kerry's?"

Funny you should mention that, because the Boston Globe claims that they did try to get Kerry's military medical records, to check on the severity of his wounds (for which he got three purple hearts)--but Kerry REFUSED to waive his privacy rights. So the records are still sealed.
189 posted on 02/06/2004 8:28:50 PM PST by Hon
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To: Hon; GretchenEE
EXCELLENT! THANK you for this stellar investigative reporting!
190 posted on 02/06/2004 8:30:34 PM PST by ohioWfan (BUSH 2004 - Leadership, Integrity, Morality)
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To: Weimdog
Umm explain to me exactly what does your length of time registered have to do with anything? What if Hon heard about FR from Hannity or Rush and decided to check it out? I've only been here a little over a year as a registered memeber? Does that mean I have less credibility in what I say on here than someone who's been ehre 2 years?...or 3 years?

Your implying that becasue he's only been here 3 months he's not credible and that's silly. If he were a DU mole don't you think that the Administrator would have dumped him by now. And why are you acting so suspcious of a story that shows that our President was in fact NOT considered AWOL like the "mainstream" media is claiming? What are YOUR motives?
191 posted on 02/06/2004 8:36:29 PM PST by txradioguy (HOOAH! Not Just A Word...A Way Of Life)
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To: ohioWfan
MAJOR PINGGSSS!!!!!!
192 posted on 02/06/2004 8:40:59 PM PST by Fighting Irish
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To: Hon
If they really tried they could do a FOIA request and get them from St. Louis where the military records repository is. And they would get a copy of his 201 file. The only files that Kerry, IMHO as a journalist, could claim privacy rights is if they were papers in his personal poession. The 201 file is still DN (Dept. of the Navy) property. The Globe is just, yet again, doing sloppy journalizm.
193 posted on 02/06/2004 8:44:29 PM PST by txradioguy (HOOAH! Not Just A Word...A Way Of Life)
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To: txradioguy
Here's an excerpt from the article I mentioned:

"Kerry had been wounded three times and received three Purple Hearts. Asked about the severity of the wounds, Kerry said that one of them cost him about two days of service, and that the other two did not interrupt his duty. "Walking wounded," as Kerry put it. A shrapnel wound in his left arm gave Kerry pain for years. Kerry declined a request from the Globe to sign a waiver authorizing the release of military documents that are covered under the Privacy Act and that might shed more light on the extent of the treatment Kerry needed as a result of the wounds."

http://www.boston.com/globe/nation/packages/kerry/061603.shtml
194 posted on 02/06/2004 8:56:45 PM PST by Hon
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Typical democrat answer would be "because W was priveleged and Daddy and a sinister republican cabal "pulled some strings".
195 posted on 02/06/2004 9:23:29 PM PST by Sans-Culotte
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To: MeekOneGOP
Bump!
196 posted on 02/06/2004 9:25:06 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE
Thanks for the information!
197 posted on 02/06/2004 9:30:54 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: Hon
How does one get a last name like Turnipseed????
198 posted on 02/06/2004 9:34:23 PM PST by 3catsanadog (When anything goes, everything does.)
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To: Hon
Oh ok...yeah if it's his medical records then does have control over their release. Medical records are seperate from the 201 file and are usually given to the soldier upon their release from service.
199 posted on 02/06/2004 9:38:08 PM PST by txradioguy (HOOAH! Not Just A Word...A Way Of Life)
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To: Hon; ImaTexan
ping
200 posted on 02/06/2004 9:42:37 PM PST by bjcintennessee (Don't Sweat the Small Stuff)
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