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From a Dec 25, 2003 posting/article containing an article dated November 4, 2000 by Bob Fertik -

2000? Yes ... 2000 ...

Pertinent excerpt:

Bush Aides Possibly Altered
National Guard Records
To Conceal Grounding and Missed Duty
by Bob Fertik
November 4, 2000
According to Democrats.com, Bush's grounding would normally have been reviewed by a Flight Inquiry Board of three senior officers, but there is no record that such a board was convened in Bush's case. Democrats.com has called for Bush to reveal his full military records, to put these and other charges to rest. Moreover, Democrats.com and TomPaine.com have revealed that Bush did not report for duty for at least a year after he stopped flying, and possibly two years. Bush's official record shows no duty after April 1972, and his superior officers in both Alabama and Texas say they never saw him after that.
An official report issued on April 30, 1973 says "Lt. Bush has not been observed at this unit during the period of this report," from May 1 1972 to April 30, 1973.
...
Internet activists led by Iowa farmer Martin Heldt and retired Air National Guard pilot Bob Rogers have been campaigning to expose Bush's failure to report for duty since May 23, 2000, when the Boston Globe first reported on a "one-year gap" in Bush's military duty. Heldt created a discussion board at Salon Magazine charging that Bush was "AWOL", which spurred an explosion of grassroots Internet activism.

Does the bolded wording in the above sound familiar?

I think this 'document' has been lying around for awhile, looking for a 'market' - and they finally found one in SeeBS ...

And we have this from:

www.timeswatch.org

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Bill Burkett

• February 13 -- Globe Bashes Burkett's Anti-Bush Story: Will the NYT React?
The NYT-affiliated Boston Globe disputes allegations by Bill Burkett on Bush's National Guard record. The Times found Burkett sufficiently credible to use as the basis for a 1,000-word anti-Bush story Thursday. With Burkett's credibility now in question, will the Times follow up?

• February 12 -- Old Anti-Bush Whine in New Bottle
The Times squeezes 1,050-words out of old allegations about Bush's National Guard service from a source who last year wrote on Iraq: "I feel sickness that today another massive group of people, held worthless by this anointed king, will be trampled upon like grapes. But their blood will not be rendered into wine."

E-mail TimesWatch Director, Clay Waters, with TimesWatch feedback at cwaters@mediaresearch.org