Top is the "memo". Bottom is from documents provided by Bush.
Posted on 09/09/2004 6:07:17 AM PDT by xzins
For record does not mean "For the Personal Records Jacket of George Bush." It's a term that means "to be filed" for his personal future reference.
To "1st Lt Bush" does not mean it goes into the personal records Jacket. It means that Bush gets a copy of what the commander's thinking.
Again and again it's apparent that these folks simply don't understand how the military works.
Liberal reporters have an anti-military mindset and they think the worst of any one who's done military service. This mindset explains why they are going hammers and tongs after Bush but going gentle on Kerry since he shares their loathing of the military lifestyle and culture.
In the Army today, there is an item called "Memorandum for Record" that does not mean it goes into the personal records jacket of anyone mentioned in the memo.
It means that it's for the writer's personal files for future reference.
The above memo's were found in the writer's personal files.
There are strictly defined rules on what goes into any individual soldier's Personal Records.
How did he get suspended without it going in his real file, not just Killian's double-secret-probation file?
Note to AP: Bush is running on his record from the past four years. Get it?
I really don't think that the voters still up for grabs care at all about what Bush did or didn't do 35 years ago.
Maybe 4 years ago, when Bush was an unknown commodity. But now they have seen him in action for the past four years and know very well what to expect from him.
For Kerry, his behavior 35 years ago is more relevant, since voters don't have a lot of information about him, and he has made his Viet Nam career the cornerstone of his campaign.
The underlined, red section above is key.
This commander is ACKNOWLEDGING that Lt Bush is legitimately putting the physical OFF until Alabama.
The commander is ACKNOWLEDGING that there might NOT be flight status there for Lt Bush.
The commander ALLOWS a Lieutenant to tell him IF. (IF -- read that.) It is a contingency. And the COMMANDER accepts it.
I'd love to see this entire memo instead of these carefully crafted excerpts from it.
blah, blah, blah
No debate till Senator Kerry signs Form-180!
this just in from (kr)AP...We are still kicking, no beating this dead horse into the ground.. repeat..we are beating this dead horse into the ground..more info or more of the same later..
What matters here is not what the media report but how the Bush campaign responds to it. If the President takes the bait, it will hurt him. If he doesn't, it won't. People will only care about it if the President becomes unhinged over it the way Kerry did over the Swiftees. And the Bush campaign can even spin this back, if the Bush family were really so evil and diabolical, and President Bush's actions during that time something horrible that had to be covered up (i.e. drug use, that's what the Left is after and still haven't found that smoking gun) these records would have been destroyed and never found.
People knew about Clinton's transgressions, didn't stop them from voting for him twice. Why can't the Rats understand that throwing these kind of allegations is going to end up sinking them even deeper? Oh well, stupid is as stupid does.
The media knows exactly what it is doing.
I say through Viet Nam out of bothe sides. Even Kerry's Anti-US/Pro-Commie post war activities. Then look at Bush's 3.5 years as Commander in Chief and Kerry's 20 year senate record.
That is a loss for Kery as well. Basically Kerry is a loser in any match up.
The memo where Killian notes Bush said he'd take the physical if he maintained his flight status shows, as usual, that GWB has been straight forward all along.
This is nothing that wasn't known before. Additional information that buttresses, not new that contradicts.
Exactly. When I first read the memo last night that jumped out at me. Killian does not say he told Bush he couldn't do that.
Once again, the media is misrepresenting the significance and meaning of the memo.
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