Internet claim on Bush award disputed

United Press International ^ | Sept. 13, 2004 3:33 p.m. | Gene Koprowski

[solicitor77]

The Air Force has knocked down allegations by a Web site that said President Bush, when serving as an officer in the Texas Air National Guard, wore a ribbon he was not authorized to wear -- a military offense that could have led to a bad-conduct discharge from the service, if true.

The original story was offered to United Press International during late August by operatives from Democrats.com, an Internet activist group whose founder had earlier this year served as a source for the Boston Globe and other media outlets on stories about Bush's service in the guard in the 1960s and 1970s.

[MizSterious]

They don't give up.

And they never, ever seem to learn.

[Tamzee]

I have heard the same thing about _______. He is there to feed some really dumb ideas to the DU crowd, just to make them look stupid.

Will you guys STOP telling everyone, please?!? He put a lot of work into getting them to trust him so much... We can all talk openly about this when he's back in November :-)

[COEXERJ145]

I cannot believe how many of those things I still find laying around Texas A&M. We probably have thousands sitting in storage collecting dust.

[niobe527]

Is there actually one of those that still work? Or did Sandy Burger sneak it out of the archives too?

[TexasCajun]

How does the old saying go?

I'm rubber and you're glue!
Everything bounces off me and sticks to you!

[Dog]

Roger that..

Walt Starr your cover is safe..

[b4its2late]

And they never, ever seem to learn.

They can't learn. It's the single digit IQ thing.....

[mnehring]

Definitely doesn't pass the superimpose test..

[longtermmemmory]

and yet they ignore Kerry's sleepwalking in a combat zone.

[GVnana]

operatives from Democrats.com, an Internet activist group whose founder had earlier this year served as a source for the Boston Globe and other media outlets on stories about Bush's service in the guard in the 1960s and 1970s.

LOSERS! And the LOSERS that believe them!

[Ichneumon]

They are now entering PHASE II:Denial. I'm thinking 'depression' should set by end of day.

"Entering"? Whenever I have a look over there, they're *always* in denial.

[GVnana]

isn't this absolute proof of press bias???

In a word. YES. Except for Democrats on an O. J. Simpson jury.

[Dog]

Jim.....I hate to be a bother....but I think I messed up....could you please delete(remove) my posts naming Walt Starr as a plant.

Please.....Walt will never forgive me if you don't.

[GVnana]

IBM Selectric was a great machine. I still have an old Royal. Can't part with it.

[finnman69]

From little green footballs:

An article by Edward Mendelson at PC Magazine claims to have debunked my comparisons of the CBS News Killian documents with my versions typed in MS Word: Bush’s Exam Doc — Real or Fake? To prove his case that the Killian documents could have been typed on an IBM Selectric Composer (and let’s leave aside the issue of why Jerry Killian, who his family said did not type, would have used the most complicated and expensive typewriter available to type short memos, only to file them away), Mendelson includes two postage stamp-sized images of a fully justified paragraph typed in MS Word and on an IBM Composer, and claims that they are an exact match.

Well, sorry Edward, but when you overlay your two tiny images, this is what you get:

[Ronin]

More like the "Order of the Purple Shaft, with Pinapple Clusters" self-inflicted, self-administered.

DU-hhhs, are their own worst enemies.

[ops33]

The UPI cannot even get this article correct. They say that wearing an incorrect ribbon could lead to a Bad Conduct Discharge (BCD). Officers do not get discharges, only enlisted get a discharge. Additionally, a BCD is a punitive discharge and can only be given as the result of a court martial. If an officer is court martialed and removed from the service he/she is dismissed from the service, not discharged.

[Condor51]

Somebody sent me this, I know it wasn't Dan Rath^er

I think is MIGHT BE a phony.

Ok I made it :-)
DemoncRATS are so dumb. BTW, it was easy to bypass the auto superscript. ctrl Z does it

[musicman]

"Now if the USN IG would just get off the dime and opine
about the published Kerry citations, and the Silver
Star "V" device."



DING !! DING !!DING !!DING !! DING !! WE HAVE A WINNER !!!!

This whole Bush medal thing was a strike first,hoping it flew before the Silver Star with "V" thing becomes "mainstream media" and possibly questioned !!!

Well....the LAST three attempts,( the Rather memos, the "did not serve in the AF", and the "WORE A RIBBON HE WAS NOT QUALIFIED FOR"), have pretty much failed.

NOW is the time to PUSH for a "look-see" from the US Military, into this SS w/"V" !!!!!!!!!!

[Condor51]

OOPs, forgot to mention ImageShack for the free hosting.