Posted on 09/10/2004 7:06:51 PM PDT by ambrose
I agree with you. The fact that they haven't denied it nags at me too.
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Hey Staudt....the staffer at CBS said you were "the bullying type"....are you??? If not, you better stand up to CBS!!
Howlin posted a link to the DNC that asked abut these very questions about Bush's Nat'l Guard service and VOILA! all the questions were "answered" in this forgery!!
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Dear Mr. Slover,
It now appears that these documents have been faked. If you want to win a Pulitzer, find out who gave these phony documents to CBS.
Best regards,
-Mike
- Michael XXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXX
Garland, Texas 75044-2002
972-496-XXXX
The left has always been saying that Staudt was the guy that gave Bush preferential treatment. Thats a green light that they are fake.
Kind of like when some media outlet got a report from the Iraqi Governing Council that tied Iraq to Both Niger Uranium and Mohammed Atta. Too good to be true.
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bump
Which aides?
The kool ones.
The earliest reference to this meme I have found is from 30 June 2004, http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=nuo6e01usbas8kiedqt2oo1ck38gmfh6hr%404ax.com.
It quotes from a web page. Here is an excerpt:
... Regardless of what actions ARPC contemplated when reviewing Bushs records, all options required that Bush be certified as physically fit to serve, or as unfit to serve. ARPC thus had to order Bush to get a physical examination, for which Bush did not show up. ARPC then designated Bush as AWOL and a "non-locatee" (i.e. a deserter) who had failed to satisfactorily participate in TXANG, and certified him for immediate induction through his local draft board....
Others have pointed out that most of the holes in the "Bush was AWOL" story were conveniently filled in by the CBS forgeries. Every person that studied the issue knew which holes needed to be filled.
In the fall of 1973, as an automatic disciplinary action, Bush was reassigned to the Obligated Reserve Section in Denver, because he disobeyed orders to show up for a mandatory flight physical and therefore was unable to fulfill the last two years of his six-year obligation as an Air National Guard jet fighter pilot.
Who was the first person to say this as if it were a truthhood? IOW, Shermy's question - from where did the idea come?
Anyway, the statement "he disobeyed orders to show up for a mandatory flight physical" is most likely, in this case, sloppy expression. If there was a writen dated order (e.g., the 4 May 1973 letter), the discussion would have referred to the memo, at least generall. "He disobeyed a written order to show up ... "
The idea comes from a document that says Bush was disqualified from flight, in part for not showing up for a physical. These facts were contained in documents "released by Bush." It was wishful thinking that there was a direct written order that Bush ignored.
http://www.cis.net/~coldfeet/grounded.gif <-- See #6.
That is weird -- Bush wasn't transferred to Denver -- his pay records were in Denver and my guess is that they went from the section that did the flight pay to the section that had the pilots on desk duty. Whoever is doing this knows little about the military. In that time period, all AF military pay records were in Denver.
He did not have to fly to fulfill his obligation. The Dems/CBS forget that he was on active duty for two full years and if you had all the points he received, he would have had 15 or 16 years. That seems conveniently lost in all of this. Pilot training and all that goes with it to fly fighters is not a piece of cake.
DARN! I was SO proud of it. I will defer to you. I'll change mine (but, if you defer, let me know: I want it BACK!) And to think, I was so original.....
--snicker--
LOL. Or is it kewl? I'm not 3liT3 enough to answer this one.
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