Posted on 09/17/2004 12:56:21 PM PDT by Cableguy
The man cited in media reports as having allegedly pressured others in the Texas Air National Guard to help George W. Bush is speaking out, telling ABC News in an exclusive interview that he never sought special treatment for Bush.
Retired Col. Walter Staudt, who was brigadier general of Bush's unit in Texas, interviewed Bush for the Guard position and retired in March 1972. He was mentioned in one of the memos allegedly written by Lt. Col. Jerry Killian as having pressured Killian to assist Bush, though Bush supposedly was not meeting Guard standards.
"I never pressured anybody about George Bush because I had no reason to," Staudt told ABC News in his first interview since the documents were made public.
The memo stated that "Staudt is pushing to sugar coat" a review of Bush's performance.
Staudt said he decided to come forward because he saw erroneous reports on television. CBS News first reported on the memos, which have come under scrutiny by document experts who question whether they are authentic. Killian, the purported author of the documents, died in 1984.
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Here's a story that won't be reported on Rathers newscast tonight.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1217277/posts
He was tired of addressing the issue....
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Going back to at least 1988, when George H.W. Bush was running for president, Staudt has been fielding the calls asking whether George W. Bush and other Texas sons of privilege were given preferential treatment.
"There wasn't any hanky-panky that went on there," Staudt told the Los Angeles Times during the summer of 1988.
Eleven years later, when Bush was Texas governor, the Times got a snarlier answer to the same question: "Nobody did anything for him. ... Neither his daddy nor anybody else got him into the guard."
"Having said that, 60 Minutes feels that it's important to underscore this point: Those who have criticized aspects of our story have never criticized the major thrust of our report -- that George Bush received preferential treatment to get into the National Guard, and once accepted, failed to satisfy the requirements of his service. If we uncover any information to the contrary, that information will also be reported." Dan Rather
Well, Dan? We're all waiting with bated breath.
Please report on the Nightly News what the Officer in Charge has said...that you, your fraudulent papers, and your sources are all out to lunch.
Quick, someone email Dan Rather so he can break this story.
I think we all need to send Dan a thank you note. If he hadn't had those forgeries this man may have never spoken out and if he did the MSM would have just ignored him. Now he can tell the truth and everyone is listening.
New Braunfels, my home town, is too sweet to be afflicted with Alzheimer's. Staudt is certainly a good name for a town that is something like 60-70% German extraction.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1218512/posts
Bush Served His Country Without Pay
PoliPundit.com ^ | September 16, 2004 | Oak Leaf
FYI
If Dan comes clean with this, there will be a collective thud (although kind of a small one due to decreased viewership) in living rooms all over America, as disbelieving people fall over in a faint.
Sorta like "Trainee General"??
To the tune of American Pie:
A short, short time ago
I can still remember how old media used to
make me sigh
And I knew that if I had my chance
I could make those people cross-reference
And maybe they'd be right, once in a while
They couldn't write of truth or love
They don't have faith in God above
Even the Bible could tell you so
The do believe in unnamed moles,
Dan Rather sold his mortal soul
Now, he could teach you how to lie real slow
Well, I know the Left are in love with him
'Cos they're kinda dum. No! They're real dim.
They can't report real news,
Now they sing the Freeper blues
I was a pyjama wearin' Freepin buck
With a pinko commie hatred and a pick-up truck
But I knew that I was right in luck
The day, old media died
I started singing
Bye, bye, to the Media Lie
Drive your networks to the graveyard
Your tides no longer high
And good old freepers were drinkin' whiskey and rye
Singing we were there the day that they died.
Which must mean that Dan and CBS news were working with the DNC and the Kerry campaign to forge official government documents, which besmirch a federal officer. That is a federal crime.
My favorite poem. When Dan retires (in disgrace) he will say:
Twas brillig, and the slithy toves (that's me and the MSM)
Did gyre and gimble (rotate slowly over the Bloggers fire)
in the wabe (FR) ...
R.
Just a guess that it may have to do with USAF rank vs TANG rank.He held a position in the TANG as a Bde Gen, but on retirement he is paid as a USAF Col. Of course this is conjecture, so I will await expert comment.
Great crossword puzzle. Maybe the NY sTimes should use it...
< If he does, he will show himself inept at best, himself fraudulent at worst (my own opinion is that he is a part of a criminal conspricay to defraud the public and unduly influence the elcetion process)...by his own words.
Isn't Commodore the temporary title given to the commander of a naval flotilla where more than one officer has the same senior rank/ E.G. an ASW group of five DEs has two Cmdrs and three LCmdrs as ship captains. One officer is designated Officer in Command, and that officer is referred to as Commodore of the group. It's the way I remember reading about it in Ed Beach's books about the submarines in the Pacific.
Amazing, isn't it? It's kind of like watching an old statue come to life.
I can understand the post earlier that said, "Send it to Drudge!" It's a habit -- when you find some juicy antiestablishment news, you just assume it's from a blog, and it needs Drudge's billboard.
Dear CBS:
That light at the end of the tunnel is in fact a train...
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