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Clinton Crusader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-04 11:48 AM
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Drudge pulls a DUH!
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/09/14/bush_service/

Attempting to bolster President Bush as he continues to stonewall questions about his Texas Air National Guard service, Internet gossip Matt Drudge posted a 1968 document from Bush's military personnel file Monday afternoon that purports to buttress a long-ago claim by Bush that he served not only in the Texas Air National Guard but in the Air Force as well. Although this "exclusive" Drudge posting is a trivial sidebar to the larger story of Bush's absence from two years of military service, the document itself -- presumably provided to Drudge by a Republican operative -- turns out to be an incriminating piece of evidence against Bush's case.
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Norquist Nemesis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-04 11:50 AM
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1. But but but!
He was honorably discharged! :eyes:

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Pirate Smile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-04 11:53 AM
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2. and military documents are always accepted as fact and the last
authority. I mean, nobody questioned any military document's accuracy when going after Kerry.
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Kierkegaard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-04 11:54 AM
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3. By all accounts, he was
the result of a dishonorable 'discharge' by his ignorant father.
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alphafemale Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-04 11:58 AM
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5. ...one bab's shoud've swallowed. Yes. nt
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tomfodw Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-04 12:42 PM
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9. So was John Muhammad
I don't usually borrow someone else's talking points, and this doesn't mean a damn thing. But neither does Bush constantly squawking about his stupid honorable discharge. For one thing, even Dan Bartlett is no longer denying that Bush did not register with a Massachusetts unit after leaving Alabama for Harvard. So how could Bush possibly have gotten a valid honorable discharge without some kind of favored treatment not available to the general public?

If he could get into a unit over a waiting list; if he could go to Alabama without a transfer order; if he could just stop flying on his own say-so; if he could ignore an order to get a flight physical; if he could skip mandatory training; if he could just pick up and leave to go to Massachusetts and never sign up with a unit there - then getting an honorable discharge he didn't really deserve would not be all that much more difficult, would it?
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merh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-04 11:57 AM
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4. What does the document show?
Please share!
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displacedtexan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-04 11:59 AM
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6. The Salon headline is priceless!
Edited on Tue Sep-14-04 12:00 PM by displacedtexan
Unwitting Drudge indicts Bush

A 1968 document from the president's military file, posted on the Internet, merely reminds us of how far short he fell in fulfilling his service commitments.
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Moveon.org has the day pass ad today. I suggest everyone watch their ad and read the whole story.
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Proud2BAmurkin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-04 12:15 PM
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7. more like a d'oh!
hahahaah
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REVOLT823 Donating Member (286 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-04 12:39 PM
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8. It is a sad day when our media takes all their leads from
this unqualified piece of garbage. But I am glad he stepped on his crank with the old golf shoes:)
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wicket Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-04 12:47 PM
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10. hahahahaha stupid Drudge
:D
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