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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You mean fake is NOT accurate?
Something fake could be accurate, but only incidentally.
For instance in this case C-BS had a rock solid witness to verify the thoughts of Kilian. Not a family member, nor anyone particularly close to him, not anybody mentioned in the memos, not anybody related to the physical, but none other then a source so reliable that some people think he might even be sane: Bill Burkett.
hahahahaaaa !!
They are going to have to quit involving people who aren't dead or senile.
The conscious ones keep pointing out the lies.
LOL! That's going on my door come monday......
Pray for W and Our Troops
It seems that ABC is having a good time with this "Memogate" story.
Wonder how well CBS's executives are sleeping these days?
I think ABC stopped pushing it on their evening news. Their liberal viewers were getting pissed off.
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