This letter to the WP destroys AWOL Shrub...

[TruthIsAll]

That's it. He's really TOAST now. It's over. Period. The fat lady has sung. Stick a fork in him.

http://democrats.com/view.cfm?id=19252

Washington Post Reporter Lois Romano Brings Mainstream Media Ever-so-Close to the Truth About Bush's AWOL
To: Lois Romano, Washington Post Reporter
From: Robert E. Reynolds
Date: February 3, 2004
Re: http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A7372-2004Feb2

First of all I want to congratulate on an exceptionally fine article. Its the best by far of those involving the recent flap.

Since the original challenges in 2000 by Bob Kerrey, Daniel Inouye, and Max Cleland more records have become available. One site for this is http://users.cis.net/coldfeet/document.htm

It has a lot of the documents in dispute. Two in particular may be of help to you:




These are the official military documents relating to his duty and base assignments. They show that despite his claims that he remembers serving in Alabama he never served in any unit other than the one at Ellington AFB.

doc. 10 is a page from his Officer Personnel record. It is very important since it goes with the officer on any assignment, permanent or temporary. So the claims by Bush and by his spokespersons have no authenticity according to his official records. It may be why in 2000 they refused to release his records.

It is also important for another reason. When it was closed out you will note that he was not given any credits for service in 1973. This is important because he claims that he performed such service and a "document" has been provided that supposedly shows credits for such service. But there is a dispute about the document. "George" magazine printed the document with Bush's name on it, but subsequently it was determined that either they or the person providing it to them added that name and the name was not on the source document. Here are two links to those documents:




I hope you find this useful information. I do believe insufficient attention has been paid to the particular role of Bush as a reservists. If you run a search you find that reservists and national guardsmen today are being picked up for AWOL and desertion and being punished for it. These are just everyday folks filling for the most part routine slots.

Bush on the other hand had received a million dollars worth of flight training and was assigned as fighter pilot to an ANG unit assigned important responsibilities in the air defense of the continental United States. Just as today, there was a war going on then and the regular services were being deployed overseas. The ANG and AF Reserve units had key responsibilities for air defense. So failure to perform ones duty and complete ones military obligation is not something to be dismissed as missing a meeting and making it up later.

Bush can not complain about this being a political attack. After all it was his campaign that raised questions about Sen. McCain's mental stability and his conduct as a POW. In 2002 they ran ads questioning the patriotism of multiple amputee Max Cleland. Both were despicable acts.

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As an AF veteran and one that also served in the reserves I can assure you that I could not have just stopped showing up, and I could not have skipped meeting and made them up later. I would have been charged under the Uniform Code of Military Justice either as AWOL (failure to report for duty) or for Desertion (failure to report for duty over 30 days). Ask any veteran and they will tell you the same.

[Melodybe]

1. ARG Why is Kerry defending *!!!!

[Cleita]

2. Because I have always had the suspicion he's one of them.

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[TruthIsAll]

3. Kerry is NOT defending Bush! He wants the facts to come out.

They already have. He is letting others put the nail in *'s coffine.

[Old and In the Way]

4. You really need to understand how the game is played.

Kerry only needs to say "I don't know, but I can tell you where I was in 1968". There will be plenty of others to pound this message into the voter's mind. Hell, it's been on quite a bit on CNN today. Ed Gillispe is going ballistic, but he can't attack Kerry on it because Kerry is not making the accusations and he's looking darn Presidential being above the fray. He's talking the issues and how Bush is screwing up our country today, let others expose Dimson's major character flaws.

hehehehe, and we haven't revisited Harkin yet, either.

[SoCalDem]

5. If Martha Stewart has to take the stand, we will probably hear about it

Bushie, the weasel got a free ride because of his Daddy's appointees at the SEC.. If it had been anyone else, they would be sporting a felony.. He made HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS of $$$ and he got a free ride..

[colonel odis]

7. that's a great idea

make the day that kerry was wounded the mantra.

keep asking bush where he was on whatever day it was kerry earned his medals

[leftchick]

6. Was this printed in the WP?

I see the what was sent but have they printed it?

[G_j]

8. my question also n/t