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Media
AWOL in Noting Irony of Bush's Flight, by Eric
Zorn
May
6, 2003, Chicago Tribune
"In
May 1968 the silver-spoon son of a U.S. congressman
jumped to the top of a long waiting list despite
mediocre scores on his pilot-aptitude test and was
allowed to enlist in the Guard, a common way to
avoid being drafted into combat in Vietnam."
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George
W. Bush Military Record
compiled by Trude Forte, Monthly Messenger
"What I found was a life of privilege and favors,
with many questions still unanswered on the missing
years of his military obligations in the Air Force
National Guard." |
Bush's
Overseas Duty Deception, by Sander Hicks
March 5, 2003, Buzzflash contribution
"But
in a frank and explosive scene, Publisher Sander
Hicks discovers that Bush's Guard files prove that
he did not volunteer for overseas duty as he implied
during Campaign 2000. Instead, Guard records show
that as a F-102 pilot in the National Guard, and
opted out and left his Volunteer Sheet's "Area
Preferences, Overseas Areas" blank." |
George
W. Bush Military Record -- and Recent Behavior (1980,
1990, and 2000) Pertaining to Military Records
From: Talion.com
"Mr.
Bush, whose permission to fly was revoked by the
military (he was suspended, assigned to a disciplinary
unit and not allowed to fly military assignments
again) liked to portray himself to voters as a 'fighter
pilot.' But his embellishments didn't stop there." |
Palast
the Iconoclast, by Ed Rampell
July 17, 2003, AlterNet
"Palast adds he recently interviewed "an extremely
well-known Texan at the center of" President Bush's
alleged draft-dodging, who was a key participant
in maneuvers to get him into the Air Guard. This
source not only confirmed that getting G.W. into
the Texas Air National Guard "was a fix," but that
"it was Daddy Bush himself who made the initial
call to get his son out of the war," Palast says."
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QUESTIONS
ABOUT BUSH'S MILITARY SERVICE LINGER
from the Daily Mis-lead
January 23, 2004
"Questions
about President Bush's military service were raised
at last night's Democratic debate by Peter Jennings
who called charges of desertion from the Texas Air
National Guard "reckless" and "not supported by
the facts." However, meticulously collected evidence
suggests that there are continuing questions."
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Dishonor
Guard: The press is lining up to defend George W.
Bush's National Guard record -- by stubbornly refusing
to discuss the facts.
by Paul Waldman
The American Prospect
January 26, 2004
"But
with the notable exception of those who came across
a brief story by The Washington Post's David Broder,
who actually explained the controversy, the typical
news reader would be hard pressed to discern that,
depending on what your definition of "desertion"
is (call it AWOL if you like), Moore was exactly
right." |
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Bush's
Missing Year,
by Eric Boehlert
February 9, 2004, Truthout.org
"In
1972, George W. Bush dropped out of his National
Guard service and later lied about it. With the
media finally paying attention, will he now come
clean?"
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Did
Bush drop out of the National Guard to avoid drug
testing? The young pilot walked away from his commitment
in 1972 -- the same year the U.S. military implemented
random drug tests.,
by Eric Boehlert
February 6, 2004, Salon
"One
of the persistent riddles surrounding President
Bush's disappearance from the Texas Air National
Guard during 1972 and 1973 is the question of why
he walked away. Bush was a fully trained pilot who
had undergone a rigorous two-year flight training
program that cost the Pentagon nearly $1 million.
And he has told reporters how important it was to
follow in his father's footsteps and to become a
fighter pilot. Yet in April 1972, George W. Bush
climbed out of a military cockpit for the last time.
He still had two more years to serve, but Bush's
own discharge papers suggest he may have walked
away from the Guard for good." |
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Bush
credited for Guard drills But time frame leaves
questions
by Walter V. Robinson, Globe Staff
February 10, 2004, Boston
Globe
"But
the documents seem unlikely to resolve questions
about whether Bush shirked his duty during his
tour as a fighter-interceptor pilot for the Texas
Air Guard during the Vietnam War. That is because
some of the dates on the service list fell during
a period in the fall of 1972 when Bush was reassigned
to a guard unit in Alabama. The commander of the
Alabama unit has said Bush did not appear for
duty at his assigned unit there."
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BUSH
A NO-SHOW AT ALABAMA BASE, SAYS MEMPHIAN,
by JACKSON BAKER
February 13, 2004, The Memphis Flyer
"Two
members of the Air National Guard unit that President
George W. Bush allegedly served with as a young
Guard flyer in 1972 had been told to expect him
and were on the lookout for him. He never showed,
however; of that both Bob Mintz and Paul Bishop
are certain."
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BUSH
STILL REFUSES TO RELEASE MILITARY DOCUMENTS
February 11,
2004, The
Daily Mislead
"White
House communications director Dan Bartlett 'confirmed
that Bush's complete personnel file is being forwarded
to Washington from an archive in Denver' but only
"for review" by the White House - not necessarily
release to the public."
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BUSH
AIDES ACCUSED OF DESTROYING MILITARY DOCUMENTS
February 12,
2004, The
Daily Mislead
"Just
four days after pledging to open up his entire
military file, President Bush has reneged on the
pledge, with 'Administration officials declining
yesterday to commit to releasing further records'
on top of the inconclusive ones they have already
released. Additionally, new charges have surfaced
that Bush actually deployed his Texas gubernatorial
staff to destroy incriminating records."
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Bush
Releases 'Entire' National Guard File,
by JENNIFER LOVEN, Associated Press Writer
February 14,
2004, Associated
Press
"Hundreds
of pages of documents that the White House said
comprise President Bush's entire military record
offer no new answers to the election-year questions
that have swirled around his Vietnam-era service.
Democrats who have led the criticism greeted Friday's
release of documents with skepticism."
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Bush's
National Guard Files 'Thrown Out'
February 12,
2004, The
Sydney Morning Herald
"While
he was governor of Texas, George Bush's aides
disposed of Mr Bush's National Guard files while
searching for information that could embarrass
the governor in future elections, a retired lieutenant-colonel
in the Texas National Guard told a member of the
Texas Senate."
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Records
Show Gaps,
by Randall Mikkelsen
February 11,
2004, appearing
on rense.com
"The
documents show long gaps in Bush's Guard service,
from May through late October 1972, and mid-January
through early April 1973."
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Timeline
of the President's National Guard Service
Associated Press
February 10,
2004, USA
Today
"Major
events in President Bush's service in the Texas
National Guard, according to National Guard Bureau
records."
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Ex-officer:
Bush file's details caused concern,
by Dave Moniz and Jim Drinkard
February 12,
2004, USA
Today
"As
Texas Gov. George W. Bush prepared to run for
president in the late 1990s, top-ranking Texas
National Guard officers and Bush advisers discussed
ways to limit the release of potentially embarrassing
details from Bush's military records, a former
senior officer of the Texas Guard said Wednesday.
Bush sits at the controls of a F-102 'Delta Dagger'
interceptor at Ellington Field, near Houston,
in 1968."
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Stringent
military screening program may explain gaps on
president's record
by Bill Morlin and Karen Dorn Steele
March 14, 2004, Spokesman-review.com
"Military
rules used in 1974 to ground two Washington Air
National Guard airmen with access to nuclear weapons
also applied to a Texas Air National Guard unit
where Lt. George W. Bush was a fighter pilot."
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Pentagon
acknowledges some Bush Guard records destroyed
July 9, 2004, San Francisco Chronicle
"Military
payroll records that could more fully document
President Bush's whereabouts during his service
in the Texas Air National Guard were inadvertently
destroyed, according to the Pentagon."
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Pentagon
Finds Bush's Guard Records, by
MATT KELLEY, Associated Press Writer
July 23, 2004, Associated Press
"The
Pentagon on Friday released newly discovered payroll
records from President Bush's 1972 service in
the Alabama National Guard, though the records
shed no new light on the future president's activities
during that summer."
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New
Records Indicate Gap In Bush Military Service
July
27, 2004, from
Daily Mislead
"But
according to new records released late last week,
Bush did not accumulate any flying hours at all
for several months during 1972. According to
Bloomberg news service, newly released computerized
records provide no record of Bush's whereabouts
between July 1972 and September 1972 when he was
supposed to be serving in the Alabama National
Guard."
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Bush
never completed five months of National Guard
service,
by John Byrne
July 28, 2004, The Blue Lemur
"Instead
of dispelling claims that President George W.
Bush was absent without leave (AWOL), a close
inspection of the payroll records released by
the White House actually show that the President
never completed five months of missed Air Force
National Guard service in 1972 and 1973, RAW STORY
can reveal."
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George
W. Bush's Lost Year in 1972 Alabama,
by Glynn Wilson, BIRMINGHAM, Ala
February 2, 2004
"The
result of an investigation into George W. Bush's
lost year in 1972 reveals a cocky privileged son
who used his family connections to avoid military
service in Vietnam and spend seven months in Alabama
partying. He clearly skipped out on National Guard
duty and avoided a mandatory drug test, all while
learning the politics of 'dirty tricks,' deception
and coded racism in the land of George Wallace."
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STILL
UNREPORTED: THE PAY-OFF IN BUSH AIR GUARD FIX,
by Greg Palast
August 28, 2004
"Barnes
appears to have made lucrative use of his knowledge
of our President's slithering out of the draft
as a lever to protect a multi-billion dollar contract
for a client."
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Article
& Essay: Bush Keeps Lying About Military Record,
by Frederick Sweet
August 30, 2004, Intervention Magazine
"During
the week of May 27th, the Guard had a huge waiting
list: those days in Texas, it took a year and
a half to get into the Guard, and over 100,000
men nationwide were on that list. But that was
no problem for Bush because his family's powerful
friends pulled strings and he was admitted the
same day that he signed his application for the
Texas Air National Guard. The Guard waiting list
was irrelevant for young Bush and his family."
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Bush's
National Guard File Missing Records,
by Matt Kelly
Associated Press
September
8, 2004, from Rense.com
"Documents
that should have been written to explain gaps
in President Bush's Texas Air National Guard service
are missing from the military records released
about his service in 1972 and 1973, according
to regulations and outside experts."
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New
Questions Raised on Bush Military Record,
by Greg Frost
September 8, 2004, Reuters
"President
Bush fell short of meeting his military obligations
during the Vietnam War and was not disciplined
despite irregular attendance at required training
drills, The Boston Globe said on Wednesday."
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Memos
Show Bush Suspended From Flying,
by PETE YOST, Associated Press Writer
September 9, 2004, Associated Press
"Newly
unearthed memos state George W. Bush was suspended
from flying for the Texas Air National Guard during
the Vietnam war because he failed to meet Guard
standards and failed to take his annual flight
physical as required."
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Stung!
A swarm of new media stories on young George W.
Bush's dereliction of duty pops his heroic-leadership
bubble, by Eric Boehlert
September 9, 2004, Salon
"As a result, Lukasiak arrived at the overwhelming
conclusion that not only did Bush walk away from
his final two years of military obligation, coming
dangerously close to desertion, but he attempted
to cover up his absenteeism through swindle and
fraud." |
Professor
says Bush revealed National Guard favoritism,
by Phil Hirschkorn
September 13, 2004, CNN
"A business school professor who taught George
W. Bush at Harvard University in the early 1970s
says the future president told him that family friends
had pulled strings to get him into the Texas Air
National Guard." |
Document:
Bush Leaves Military Service, by PETE YOST,
Associated Press Writer
September 30, 2004, Associated Press
"The White House said seven months ago that
it had released all the records on President Bush's
stateside military service during the Vietnam War,
yet new records are still dribbling out as Election
Day approaches." |
Texas
Guard Releases More Bush Service Records
October
5 , 2004, Local News article
"Recently
released records show President Bush was on "no
fly" status for his last active duty days."
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Review
Finds More Bush Military Records, by MATT KELLEY,
Associated Press Writer
October 15 , 2004, Associated Press
"Weeks after Texas National Guard officials
signed an oath swearing they had turned over all
of President Bush's military records, independent
examiners found more than two dozen pages of previously
unreleased documents about Bush." |
In
the same league as Fox Don't major outlets like
ABC News and CNN know better than to trot out a
discredited former Guardsman as a source for stories
about Bush's military service?, by Eric Boehlert
September 10, 2004, Salon
"Working on the premise that you can fool some
of the people all of the time, a Bush supporter
who asserted that he saw Bush serve his National
Guard duty in Alabama in 1972 returned this week
to retell his already discredited story and was
embraced by several news organizations that are
not Fox News -- ABC News, CNN and the Associated
Press." |
