Smoking Gun? The infamous Bush "torn document"

[TruthIsAll]

http://www.calpundit.com/archives/003189.html

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But wait. Although there are no records showing that he attended drills in Alabama, there is one piece of evidence demonstrating that Bush showed up for drills after he returned to Texas: the infamous "torn document." Here it is:

This document supposedly records Bush's attendance record in Texas from May 1972 to May 1973. However, the astute observer will note several things about this document:

It is strategically torn along its left edge.

There is no name on the document, only a single letter: W. Does it say "1LT BUSH GEORGE" just before the initial? Maybe, but the page has been torn so there's no way to tell.

The Social Security number is blacked out.

The tear eliminates the year and month of all the dates. (The date at the bottom right is just a note added by a reporter.)

In other words, there's really no evidence that this document refers to George W. Bush or even that it refers to the period 1972-73. But it's even worse than that: it turns out that this document wasn't even part of Bush's original service file.

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[Frank Rose]

1. How about this:

The electric company says I didn't pay my bill, I say I did. I offer a cancelled check as proof, however the check has been torn, so it only shows one letter of my name, the payee, and the date. My account number has been blacked out, and my bank statement verifies the payment, but I can't find it. The bank can't or won't provide a copy of the statement, but a teller who once said no one ever saw me, now says there are so many customers, it would be hard to say. Oh yeah, I almost forgot, I'm also president of the bank.

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

2. lol!

I think you summarized this situation just about right! I'm just amazed that they do this with a straight face.

[StClone]

3. It would be interesting

To do a little chemical analysis of the paper with the related document material.

[NJCher]

4. heh

and the plot will thicken. Gather round, my little pretties.


Cher

[ThoughtCriminal]

5. Just where did the "Torn" doc come from anyway?

nt

[DrBB]

10. His crew introduced it as evidence

...after the questions were raised during the 2000 election.

I mean, you gotta wonder why they produced something as shaky as this, when all it would take to completely dispel the whole business is some pay stubs from the period in question.

[grasswire]

6. a forensic examination...

...of that document is needed. Badly.

[cosmicdot]

7. maybe Dr. Joye Carter who performed Cliff Baxter's autopsy ...

or Dr. Michael Berkland who preformed the autopsy on Lori Klausutis would available

that's about standard operating procedure SOP these days

[TruthIsAll]

8. You mean that you are not convinced of its authenticity? n/t

.

[buycitgo]

9. this should help clear things up

[Tansy_Gold]

11. that is one of the scariest things i've seen in a long time

now I'll have to sleep with the lights on tonight. . . . .

:scared:

[burythehatchet]

12. What do you have against the TANG?

[alfredo]

13. The tang at that time was a 'safe haven' for sons of rich and powerful

men. It was called a Champaign Unit. The aircraft used were phased out of active service in Vietnam so pilots trained in them were not in any danger of going to war. Many who did serve in the unit were honorable men, but some like Dim Son were not.

[TruthIsAll]

14. Torn curtain of lies...

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