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To: plushaye

This is a new angle under 'factual problems':

Factual problems. A CBS document purportedly from Killian ordering Bush to report for his annual physical, dated May 4, 1972, gives Bush's address as "5000 Longmont #8, Houston." This address was used for many years by Bush's father, George H.W. Bush. National Guard documents suggest that the younger Bush stopped using that address in 1970 when he moved into an apartment, and did not use it again until late 1973 or 1974, when he moved to Cambridge, Mass., to attend Harvard Business School.


45 posted on 09/13/2004 7:56:47 PM PDT by plushaye (President Bush - Four more years! Thanks Swifties.)
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To: plushaye

Stylistic problems which Freepers pointed out already.

"Stylistic differences. To outsiders, how an officer wrote his name and rank or referred to his military unit may seem arcane and unimportant. Within the military, however, such details are regulated by rules and tradition, and can be of great significance. The CBS memos contain several stylistic examples at odds with standard Guard procedures, as reflected in authenticated documents.

In memos previously released by the Pentagon or the White House, Killian signed his rank "Lt Col" or "Lt Colonel, TexANG," in a single line after his name without periods. In the CBS memos, the "Lt Colonel" is on the next line, sometimes with a period but without the customary reference to TexANG, for Texas Air National Guard.

An ex-Guard commander, retired Col. Bobby W. Hodges, who CBS originally cited as a key source in authenticating its documents, pointed to discrepancies in military abbreviations as evidence that the CBS memos are forgeries. The Guard, he said, never used the abbreviation "grp" for "group" or "OETR" for an officer evaluation review, as in the CBS documents. The correct terminology, he said, is "gp" and "OER." "


55 posted on 09/13/2004 7:59:14 PM PDT by plushaye (President Bush - Four more years! Thanks Swifties.)
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To: plushaye
This is a new angle under 'factual problems'...

No. The Longmont address has been identified as part of the problem on several FR threads -- every bit as significant as the Staudt mistake.

174 posted on 09/13/2004 9:13:12 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: plushaye

What was the clincher for me is the fact that the P.O.Box address listed on the forged memos is in five consecutive numbers. 111th Fighter Interceptor Squadron, P.O.Box(1,2..)34567. Now that's hilarious :-)


193 posted on 09/13/2004 10:26:45 PM PDT by booksaver (Hmmm. Must be something in the water.)
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