James C. Moore:
Monday September 20, 2004
Moore's agenda:
http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2004/cyb20040213.asp#2
NBC's Today, only after giving a full airing to
Burkett's claim, noted how the Boston Globe found a witness who
contradicts him......key witness to some of the events described by Burkett has
told the Globe that the central elements of his story are false.
George O. Conn, a former chief warrant officer with the Guard and
a friend of Burkett's, is the person whom Burkett says led him to
the room where the Bush records were being vetted. But Conn says
he never saw anyone combing through the Bush file or discarding
records.
"I have no recall of that," Conn said. "I have no recall of that
whatsoever. None. Zip. Nada."
Conn's recollection also undercuts another of Burkett's central
allegations: that he overheard Bush's onetime chief of staff, Joe
M. Allbaugh, telling a Texas Guard general to make sure there were
no embarrassments in the Bush record.
Burkett says he told Conn, over dinner that same night, what he
had overheard. But Conn says that, although Burkett told him he
worried that the Bush record would be sanitized, he never
mentioned overhearing the conversation between Allbaugh and
General Daniel James III.
Burkett's allegations also will be a major
focus of a book on Bush to be published next month.
But the book's author, James Moore, a former Houston TV news
correspondent, concedes he never interviewed some of the key
players who could have verified Burkett's charges, including Conn
and retired National Guard Colonel John Scribner -- the officer
Burkett says he saw removing items from the Bush file....
Cut version
Burkett Veteran for Peace, Burkett
ranted (an excerpt)1998:
.In January of 1998 :.."I know GW Bush and his inner circle very well. As I said, a UN
vote would not stop GW Bush from attacking Iraq. Nor will anything
else. And weapons of mass destruction will be discovered in great
quantities; but the entire affair will stink to high heavens
because it will be as staged as the White House press conference
you just viewed. The human death toll will publicly not be
mentioned, yet in truth, it will far exceed 120,000....
Now I feel sickness that today another massive group of people,
held worthless by this anointed king, will be trampled upon like
grapes. But their blood will not be rendered into wine. It will be
spilled into the sands of this desert or another, or on the
streets of Washington, or in the halls of the US Congress, or in
the courts....
We must now revert to the history of Europe to discern what to do.
We must study the nemesis of France and how Napoleon was felled
before understanding the damage a tyrant does to a nation and
society. We must examine the ruthless and dictatorial rise of yet
another of the three small men -- one whose name is not spoken out
of fear of reprisal, but his name was Adolf."
http://www.veteransforpeace.org/what_do_you_say_032203.htm