New Questions On Bush Guard Duty [CBS USES FORGERIES TO SMEAR THE PRESIDENT!!!!!]

CBS ^ | 9/10/04 | Staff

[TastyManatees]

New Questions On Bush Guard Duty

CBS) The military records of the two men running for president have become part of the political arsenal in this campaign – a tool for building up, or blowing up, each candidate’s credibility as America's next commander-in-chief.

While Sen. Kerry has been targeted for what he did in Vietnam, President Bush has been criticized for avoiding Vietnam by landing a spot in the Texas Air National Guard - and then failing to meet some of his obligations.

Did then-Lt. Bush fulfill all of his military obligations? And just how did he land that spot in the National Guard in the first place? Correspondent Dan Rather has new information on the president’s military service – and the first-ever interview with the man who says he pulled strings to get young George W. Bush into the Texas Air National Guard.

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But 60 Minutes has obtained a number of documents we are told were taken from Col. Killian's personal file. Among them, a never-before-seen memorandum from May 1972, where Killian writes that Lt. Bush called him to talk about "how he can get out of coming to drill from now through November."

Lt. Bush tells his commander "he is working on a campaign in Alabama…. and may not have time to take his physical." Killian adds that he thinks Lt. Bush has gone over his head, and is "talking to someone upstairs."

Col. Killian died in 1984. 60 Minutes consulted a handwriting analyst and document expert who believes the material is authentic.

[Verax]

The military used a lot of carbon forms back then...3 and 4 part. Could that be it?

[Verax]

In the 1970s, every typewriter I used was one of those big black manuals, and I was in aerospace. Government lagged behind all technology in anything that had to do with paperwork, didn't think it necessary to upgrade perfectly good equipment for some newfangled gizmos. We used carbon paper back then!!!! If there were copy machines, I sure didn't have them in my offices.

Excellent point...especially an ANG unit! Records might be available somewhere on microfiche or ledger of what typwriters were being purchased by the contracting agency in that timeframe.

I used to be in Contracting in the Air Force (a buyer), and things like this don't change often. Likely, there was research done to approve a typewriter model, and that's all that was bought for all the units under a certain command for YEARS. Surely a couple records of those purchases could be found.

[Bubba_Leroy]

There is no longer any question that the CBS documents are fake. That has been proven beyond any reasonable doubt. The only remaining question is ...

WHAT DID RATHER KNOW AND WHEN DID HE KNOW IT?

[MayflowerMadam]

Actually, the MTST didn't do the proportional spacing. Running the MTST tape on the Composer was where the magic happened. It did great work -- beautiful.

[lepton]

“Dan Blather will never tell us he was in possession of forged documents. Honesty, and integrity doesn’t exist any longer in the MSM.”

He’s still at it.