The Sixty-First Minute (Are latest GW Guard documents a forgery?)

Powerline Blog ^ | 10 September 2004 | Tom Mortensen

[Wild_Bill_8881]

heck, dead's the way Democats like 'em

Ya can ask them any questions

But they still vote ;->

[ninonitti]

I recall that almost all Department of the Army stuff that I typed (1969 to 1971) was formated to line up on the left margin including the signature and title lines.

I don't recall exactly what we had for typewriters but there was only ONE IBM Selectric in an office of four.....and this was not a NG outfit.

[igoramus987]

CYA 18 August 1973 Interpretation

Bush was honorably discharged as a first lieutenant in October 1973. The CYA document is dated 18 August 1973.

The higher ups wanted the Colonel to give Bush a good final review before he left. The Colonel just documented that he couldn't do this, because he hadn't observed Bush in the previous year (Bush was in Alabama, the Colonel in Texas). This document is just to protect the Colonel's butt in case some one questions him in the future why he may have been too lazy to give Bush a review.

Suspension of Flight Status 1st - August 1972 Interpretation

I just see this a the Colonel wanting a replacement for Bush asap in 1972. You can even interpret 1. as the Colonel himself ordering Bush not to get a checkup.


19 May 1972 Interpretation

Just the Colonel documenting that he tried to keep Bush on in Alabama, in case someone later accuses the Colonel of running a holiday camp.

[Mike Fieschko]

The powerline blog article has been updated.

It's also starting it's way around the blogsphere:

http://www.kloognome.com/archives/001112.php

http://qando.net/archives/004048.htm

http://secureliberty.org/index.php?title=vietnam_again

http://wizbangblog.com/archives/003604.php

http://dmobley.blogspot.com/2004/09/damaging-bush-records-forgeries.html

And others listed at

http://www.powerlineblog.com/mt/mt-tb.cgi?__mode=view&entry_id=7760

[Tamzee]

Another big smoking gun...

In this memo, the words "not happy today either" are in an easily obvious different font/size from all the rest of the words.

http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/BushGuardaugust18.pdf

[practicalmom]

No, I never knew any of these remarkable things about Bush's service (and I'm a Republican!) Thanks for the post...

[ru4liberty]

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