Lost in all of this: BUSH DESTROYED GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS!!!

[LTR]

Okay, there's a few threads already on the Abilene Kinkos:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A24635-2004Sep15?language=printer

But scant mention has been made of this little tidbit:

Burkett, who has accused Bush aides of ordering the destruction of some portions of the president's National Guard record because they might have been politically embarrassing, did not return telephone calls to his home. His lawyer, David Van Os, issued a statement on Burkett's behalf saying he "no longer trusts any possible outcome of speaking to the press on any issue regarding George W. Bush and does not choose to dignify recent spurious attacks upon his character with any comment."

In news interviews earlier this year, Burkett said he overheard a telephone conversation in the spring of 1997 in which top Bush aides asked the head of the Texas National Guard to sanitize Bush's files as he was running for a second term as governor of Texas. Several days later, he said, he saw dozens of pages from Bush's military file dumped in a trash can at Camp Mabry, the Guard's headquarters.

The Bush aides Burkett named as participants in the telephone conversation were Chief of Staff Joe M. Allbaugh and spokespersons Karen Hughes and Dan Bartlett. All three Bush aides and former Texas National Guard Maj. Gen. Daniel James have strongly denied the allegations.

Bush destroyed military documents, namely his own. HE BROKE THE LAW!!!

Another funny point to this: Drudge has been hyping this article all night, and he finally links to an article that admits this!!! Drudge just got punked!

[AZCat]

1. That's not entirely correct...

It appears that in this, like all of Bush's life, he didn't get his own hands dirty. Just like Vietnam, where George let other people die in his place. Someone else 'cleansed' his file for him, because the only thing worth anything about George is his last name and that's why they worked so hard to prop him up through his whole life.

[notbush]

2. Yes, but you have to get the people and the press to believe Burkett

So far they seem to have been successful at discrediting him.
He told his story a long time ago.....and it fell flat.

[RobertSeattle]

3. I've had this nasty fantasy

Someone "reputable" would publically announce that they have copies of the entire Bush Military records and will go public with them unless X, Y, and Z happens. Would/Could Bush/Rove call the bluff?

[shraby]

4. Maybe Burkett took the whole

trash can full of files and replaced them with junk and left a couple of the files on top so when it was disposed of no files got destroyed except a couple on top.
If he did, I hope they are in a safe place slated for release if anything happens to him.

[RobertSeattle]

5. I thought that too

Burkett either recreated copies of the memos or did them from memory.

At least we live in interesting times!

[NEDem]

6. These are those 'destroyed' documents

Read the article and put 2 and 2 together. Its obvious.

[seabeyond]

7. then he is hero, and everyone better d*mn well start applauding

this man.

i am serious, the scrubbing records have been known for a long time and he has gotten away with it for a long time. now bushies boys ass is in trouble for this and burkett better not get in any trouble whatso ever.