Posted on 07/20/2004 10:42:33 AM PDT by xsysmgr
Today Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe launched an all-out attack on President George W. Bush's Vietnam-era service in the Texas Air National Guard. In a conference call with reporters, McAuliffe said the DNC is beginning an "ongoing effort" to address "a very important, continuing, unanswered question in this campaign: Where was George W. Bush during the Vietnam War?"
"At a time when national security is on the forefront of every American's mind, the American people deserve to know the truth about their president's military service," McAuliffe said.
Citing reports that some records of the president's service have been lost or destroyed, McAuliffe said, "Only one man knows about George W. Bush's military service, and he is not talking. That's why we're talking about this today."
McAuliffe said the DNC has created a new website to "bring extra pressure to bear so that we can learn the whole truth." The site includes a timeline comparing Bush's military service with that of Democratic candidate John Kerry, a decorated Vietnam veteran. Under the heading "First Assignment," the chart says of Kerry, "Deployed to western Pacific to support operations in Vietnam." Of Bush, it says, "Houston, Texas — where he enjoyed 'all-day water volleyball games.'" Under the heading "Request for Second Post," the chart says of Kerry, "Requests duty in Vietnam." Of Bush, it says, "Requests duty at postal unit in Alabama."
Earlier this year, the White House released hundreds of pages of records outlining in sometimes meticulous detail the president's nearly five-plus years in the Air National Guard. The records show that Bush served nearly two years of active-duty service in the Air National Guard, putting in hundreds of hours in flight school and in specialized training courses. The records also show that Bush spent an additional two years accumulating hundreds of hours of flight time, piling up credit points far beyond what was required of Air National Guard pilots. Finally, the records show that even when he stopped flying, Bush still met the minimum standards of service. (For a detailed report on the records, please see here.)
None of that information is in the Democratic version of the president's service.
McAuliffe accused Republicans of having made military service an issue in the campaign. He said "the president's men" have "continually tried to destroy and discredit John Kerry's military record.... We will not stand by and allow this to happen."
McAuliffe made clear that Kerry's military record will be on full display at the upcoming Democratic National Convention in Boston. On the night Kerry addresses the convention, his crew mates from his Swift Boat days will be there, as well as Jim Rassman, who says Kerry saved his life during one engagement with the enemy. In addition, former Senator Max Cleland, who lost three limbs in Vietnam, will introduce Kerry to the convention.
Sounds like a deparate attempt at changing the subject from Sandy Berger. The similarity in the charges that the documents aren't there is striking.
TM: "We won't show you our documents until you show us yours"
This is all they've got??!!
deparate = desperate
Where was Terry the Punk, Johnny "Diapers" Edwards and Bill Clinton?
Hey Hanoi Boi....how about releasing your FULL service record...which you have not done.....POS!
kerry, testimony before Congress, 22 April, 1971, kerry says, "I have been to Paris. I have talked with both delegations at the peace talks, that is to say the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the Provisional Revolutionary Government,...."*(not on any authorised mission by the U.S. Government or by the U.S. military, kerry and his VVAW group meets and negotiates with the then enemy).
*excerpted from the Official U.S. Congressional Record dated 22 April, 1971.
"revamp the U.S. military", read as kerry's plan to PURGE the U.S. Military of Pro U.S. Military Veterans and Republicans, make it totally dependant on U.N. forces support for any significant achievement capable military(similar to france,germany, etc.), Turn home based U.S. Armed Forces, Intelligence agencies and Law Enforcement agencies into the democratic party's{including CPUSA and DSA} Praetorian Guard!!!!
kerry stabbed U.S. in the back continually since his return from Viet Nam. How much more backstabbing from this 22 April, 1971 testimony(self confessed traitor) before Congress that he(kerry) met with the then enemy in Paris, are we supposed to stand????
Some More Interesting historical news about kerry:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1091943/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1160580/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1165078/posts
Some of kerry's friends listed below:
http://www.cpusa.org/
http://www.dsausa.org/
DSA's "Progressive Caucus" Links below:
http://bernie.house.gov/pc/
http://bernie.house.gov/pc/members.asp
They are the Enemy Within!!!!
I have at least one or two interesting posts about said such subject matter, below:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1165983/posts
And see:
http://tonkin.spymac.net/hanoikerry1.html
More: Communist Party Backs the RATS!!!! below:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1171176/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1172055/posts
kerry, testimony before Congress, 22 April, 1971, kerry says, "I have been to Paris. I have talked with both delegations at the peace talks, that is to say the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the Provisional Revolutionary Government,...."*(not on any authorised mission by the U.S. Government or by the U.S. military, kerry and his VVAW group meets and negotiates with the then enemy).
*excerpted from the Official U.S. Congressional Record dated 22 April, 1971.
"revamp the U.S. military", read as kerry's plan to PURGE the U.S. Military of Pro U.S. Military Veterans and Republicans, make it totally dependant on U.N. forces support for any significant achievement capable military(similar to france,germany, etc.), Turn home based U.S. Armed Forces, Intelligence agencies and Law Enforcement agencies into the democratic party's{including CPUSA and DSA} Praetorian Guard!!!!
kerry stabbed U.S. in the back continually since his return from Viet Nam. How much more backstabbing from this 22 April, 1971 testimony(self confessed traitor) before Congress that he(kerry) met with the then enemy in Paris, are we supposed to stand????
Some More Interesting historical news about kerry:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1091943/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1160580/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1165078/posts
Some of kerry's friends listed below:
http://www.cpusa.org/
http://www.dsausa.org/
DSA's "Progressive Caucus" Links below:
http://bernie.house.gov/pc/
http://bernie.house.gov/pc/members.asp
They are the Enemy Within!!!!
I have at least one or two interesting posts about said such subject matter, below:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1165983/posts
And see:
http://tonkin.spymac.net/hanoikerry1.html
More: Communist Party Backs the RATS!!!! below:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1171176/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1172055/posts
Wow, again?
Did they run out of "scandals" so soon?
McAwful is a deperate moron. How he retains power after his string of embarrassing defeats is beyond me.
DO YOU MEAN THERE IS STILL SOME BODY IN THIS WHOLE WIDE WORLD WHO DOESN'T KNOW KERRY SERVED IN VIETNAM???????
Good for them, this has gone no where in four years and it will go nowhere for four months; now if they would only discuss his WAR record: 50 million people liberated
"In addition, former Senator Max Cleland, who lost three limbs in Vietnam, will introduce Kerry to the convention."
Lost 3 limbs - when he stupidly picked up a live grenade which had been dropped by another US soldier. The DNC is shameless.
We know that John Edwards did not volunteer for service. I wonder if McAuliffe volunteered for the military.
If Kerry wants to run on War records.....
Well, I'll take Bush and his several years of Commanding the ENTIRE MILITARY in wartime and liberating millions...
over Kerry's 4 months any day of the week.
Beside....Bush asked to go to Vietnam and was not given the slot. IF Terry keep pushing this...I am sure the GOP will unload that on him.
The DNC strategy: Repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth.
Wag the Dog BUMP?
It is beyond galling to have the President military service questioned by a girlie-man who would not consider serving himself for a nano-second.
Actually, they've got even less .. because the US Military has said that in an attempt to preserve some of the microfisch documents from WWII, Korea and Vietnam, they were inadvertently destroyed.
McAwful cannot PROVE anything with NON-EXISTENT documents. It actually ends up being approx 1 year of Bush's service which has no documentation. There's nothing McAwful can do to manufacture BAD evidence when the military records were destroyed.
And .. I believe this might have happened when Gore was on his tear to streamline the govt. I guess destroying documents (which might have included some of Kerry's stuff too?) can be considered streamline.
Would it have been smarter to leave it on the ground under the helicopter?
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