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Just wondering how Thornberg and Boccardi are coming along on the investigation. With less than two weeks 'til the election and people voting already and all...

Note: Newsweek is reporting that the source for the CBS allegations against Bush is Bob Burkett, someone with a grudge against the National Guard and Bush. http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5974040/site/newsweek/ Six months ago, the Boston Globe reported major "issues" with another Burkett story that was posted on FR at the link noted. Link to original boston.com (Globe) article is here: http://www.boston.com/news/politics/president/articles/2004/02/13/doubts_raised_on_bush_accuser?mode=PF First few paras: ++++++++ For at least six years, a retired Texas National Guard officer has maintained that President Bush's record as a member of the Guard was purged of potentially embarrassing material at the behest of high-ranking Bush aides laying the...

Bush vs. Kerry Judging the candidates' strength of character Sunday, July 11,2004 When I was 21 years old, a college senior in 1969, I participated in my only lottery. I'm not a gambler, but my life was at stake. So were the lives of all American young men born between 1944 and 1950, as our birthdays were picked one by one to determine our order in the military draft. That moment in American history was the hardest test my generation took. Our answers have been judged for the rest of our lives. My friends made difficult choices. Some quit college...