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This revealing statement was made in an article on Aust 25, 2004; just a short time before Rathergate. It is on second page of doc.

Thanks to Captain ED's blog site: captainsquaterblog.com

1 posted on 09/16/2004 4:16:30 PM PDT by ketchikan

This guy is a forgerer? But not a liar?

2 posted on 09/16/2004 4:17:19 PM PDT by occutegirl (Does Dan Rather support the police planting evidence, or just the media?)

3 posted on 09/16/2004 4:17:57 PM PDT by shield (The Greatest Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal God!!!! by Dr. H. Ross, Astrophysicist)

4 posted on 09/16/2004 4:18:49 PM PDT by Jackson Brown

Correction re link: It is captainsquartersblog.com/mt/

5 posted on 09/16/2004 4:20:44 PM PDT by ketchikan

Correction re link: It is captainsquartersblog.com/mt/

6 posted on 09/16/2004 4:21:05 PM PDT by ketchikan

That's a very interesting statement ... "reassembled." Sounds like a confession to me. I'm convinced Burkett did it, particularly after seeing the MapQuest map someone posted last night showing Burkett's hometown compared to Abilene and its Kinkos.

7 posted on 09/16/2004 4:21:15 PM PDT by eyespysomething (I'm typing up lottery tickets. I mean, as long as the content is true the rest doesn't matter.)

Wonder if Burkett is also responsible for the documents which are apparently missing from Bush's file.

8 posted on 09/16/2004 4:24:48 PM PDT by ambrose (http://www.swiftvets.com)

as if this story could get more bizarre or be based on more unreliable souces than any story in history, whatcha wanna make a bet this bill guy gets carted off in a straitjacket, screaming bush invectives.

geez, i feel like we are in an episode of south park or something.

11 posted on 09/16/2004 4:34:32 PM PDT by wildwood

14 posted on 09/16/2004 4:44:01 PM PDT by MistyCA

Call Dan Rather, he wants to break this story

15 posted on 09/16/2004 4:46:50 PM PDT by woofie (This document was generated in 2004 by a computer)

WE have reassembled.

Who's included in this we, Mr. Burkett?

Who helped you reassemble these records?

18 posted on 09/16/2004 4:48:38 PM PDT by hansel

If he indeed took the file, he is a criminal

19 posted on 09/16/2004 4:50:27 PM PDT by Inge C (,)

USA Today:
* Bill Burkett, a former lieutenant colonel in the Texas National Guard, says that four years ago, he and a group of officers informed Adjutant General Danny James, the state commander, that 7% of the Texas Army Guard's 16,300 troops were ghost soldiers. Burkett and others say that despite promises to fix the problem, the Texas Army Guard continues to include soldiers who shouldn't be on the rolls. According to figures provided by the National Guard Bureau, over the past two years, Texas has had anywhere from 1,300 to 1,800 unpaid soldiers on its rolls, more than 11% at its peak.

MICHAEL HEDGES, Houston Chronicle Washington Bureau. Houston Chronicle.Houston, Tex.: Feb 14, 2004. pg. 24.
Burkett and some friends from his Guard days have been involved in an ugly dispute with the Texas National Guard and officers appointed by then-Gov. Bush for several years.

One of those friends, Harvey Gough, said this week that he became so incensed at what he saw as malfeasance by the Guard's senior officers that he hired a private detective to delve into James' personal life. James is the son of former Gen. Chappy James, the first black four-star general.

Through a spokesman, James denied all of Burkett's charges.

Burkett, Gough, Adams and others have waged an ugly feud with the Guard over what they said was fraud, waste and corruption.

Burkett sued three officers in the Texas Guard in the late 1990s, claiming that they blocked him from receiving medical support after he went to Panama on a Guard-related mission and contracted a debilitating disease. Gough alleged in a lawsuit that he was subjected to anti-Semitic remarks from one of James' staffers, and when he complained, James court-martialed him. Both suits failed.

Burkett also raised charges against James and others at Texas legislative hearings in the late 1990s.

Rep. Bob Hunter, R-Abilene, conducted one of the hearings and said this week that there was no substance to Burkett's charges.

Sounds like the good ol boys got busted by James and they didn't like it.

20 posted on 09/16/2004 4:55:50 PM PDT by e_castillo

[Burkett]...one of the sources for information in the Michael Moore's film "Farenheit 911." He is decorated soldier and recognized military process expert."

What's a "military process expert"?

I did not realize Mr. Burkett was helpful to Michael Moore!

21 posted on 09/16/2004 4:59:37 PM PDT by Maria S ("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." Hillary Clinton, 6/28/04)

There is a difference between a physical document, and hearsay from a disreputed witness.

This guy should go to jail, Rather should get fired, and CBS should get sued into bankruptcy.

22 posted on 09/16/2004 5:01:19 PM PDT by Born to Conserve

"George W. Bush, you may be the president(sic). But I know you lied.

I know from your files that WE HAVE NOW REASSEMBLED."

Reassembled, lied, forged, this lad has some very real problems, and they are about to get worse, much worse.

23 posted on 09/16/2004 5:01:52 PM PDT by Ursus arctos horribilis ("It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" Emiliano Zapata 1879-1919)

he says "WE" reassembled. Define we?

25 posted on 09/16/2004 5:04:22 PM PDT by icarix

THe statement that "we reassembled" the file suggests that Burkett had help... my guess is he had more help than he was counting on.

Burkett sounds like the "perfect patsy": he's appears to be paranoid, and is clearly obsessed with Bush and his NG records. So under the guise of "reassembling" Bush's NG records, some operative conveniently passes on to Burkett some bogus documents that "confirm" all the bad stuff that Burkett and the Democrats have long suspected. Burkett takes the bait of course, and runs with it.

The rest is history. And if it gets traced back to Burkett, he'll won't be able to prove who gave the forged docs to him.

The real forgers have successfully used Burkett as a "cut-out" .....

That's my theory du jour.

26 posted on 09/16/2004 5:08:26 PM PDT by longshadow

Was the four page document typed on a typewriter or done with MS Word?

28 posted on 09/16/2004 5:12:32 PM PDT by MattMa (I'm not a victim, I am a conservative and if you get to close, I just may bite.)

um, the entire piece by burkett was posted here, earlier.

32 posted on 09/16/2004 5:22:30 PM PDT by dep (No, we don't have editors. We ARE editors.)

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