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Joel Turnipseed, a former marine who wrote "Baghdad Express," a memoir of the first gulf war, was sitting in Minneapolis watching "Monday Night Football" with his wife last week when a commercial for the film "Jarhead" came on the television. "Jarhead" was directed by Sam Mendes and is based on Anthony Swofford's memoir of the first gulf war. The commercial showed marines in the desert hurrying to don their chemical protection gear. One of the characters, Troy, played by Peter Sarsgaard, put on his hood and turned to another, Swoff, played by Jake Gyllenhaal, and in his best Darth Vader...

February 15, 2004 -- Serious doubts have been raised about the stories of two key Alabama National Guard figures who questioned whether President Bush showed up for weekend duty there in the early 1970s. Retired Brig. Gen. William Turnipseed, the 187th's Tactical Reconnaissance Group's former commander, recanted his statement that he couldn't remember if Bush reported for duty, now saying his memory is faulty because he's in the beginning stages of Alzheimer's disease. And The Boston Globe, which took the lead in challenging Bush's Guard service, reported serious doubts about the account given by one of Bush's prime accusers. Turnipseed...

This is the only place that you will get the full and true story of President Bush’s Air National Guard service. There are no UNANSWERED questions. There are no missing records. He did not miss any meetings. The truth is known. You can find everything in this article, in other publications but none of the others are complete. You have to put them all together to get the full story. It is a shame that our national "objective" media refuse to do their job and put the whole story together. First, in answer to the charge that Bush was AWOL...

Ask retired Brig. Gen. William Turnipseed whether the press has accurately reported what he said about George W. Bush, and you'll get an earful. "No, I don't think they have," he begins. Turnipseed, the former head of the 187th Tactical Reconnaissance Group of the Alabama Air National Guard, was widely quoted as saying he never saw Bush in Alabama in 1972, and if the future president had been there, he would remember. In fact, Turnipseed says, he doesn't recall whether Bush was there or not; the young flier, then a complete unknown in Alabama, was never part of the 900-man...

Retired general: Enough on Bush William R. Turnipseed, who has been at the center of the Bush military service case, did not donate to Edwards, and he says Alzheimer's remark was a joke 02/22/04 By EDDIE CURRAN Staff Reporter MONTGOMERY -- Four years ago, a reporter from the Boston Globe called retired Brig. Gen. William R. Turnipseed to ask whether he remembered George W. Bush reporting for duty with the Air National Guard unit in Montgomery then commanded by Turnipseed. He responded: "Had he reported in, I would have had some recall, and I do not. I had been in...

Walter V. Robinson is the Boston Globe reporter who originally reported the Bush AWOL story based largely on misrepresenting the casual remarks of Brig. Gen. Turnipseed. He has a history of such things, apparently. Here is a court decision upholding a libel suit against him, brought by a Republican Candidate he slandered in one of his stories: John R. Lakian v. Globe Newspaper Company & another n1 n1 Walter V. Robinson. No. N-4200 Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts 399 Mass. 379; 504 N.E.2d 1046; 1987 Mass. LEXIS 1172; 13 Media L. Rep. 2368   November 6, 1986, Argued   March...

The ex-military man who first launched charges during the 2000 presidential campaign that President Bush had gone AWOL from the National Guard has recanted his story. The account from Brig. Gen. William Turnipseed, who told the Boston Globe four years ago that Bush never showed for Guard drills with his Alabama unit, had become the centerpiece of Democratic attacks on the White House in recent days. "Had [Bush] reported in, I would have had some recall, and I do not," Gen. Turnipseed told the Globe in May 2000. "I had been in Texas, done my flight training there. If we...