Bush was still AWOL

[realFedUp]

From Salon, with the points below from www.dailykos.com
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/09/20/bush_guard_records/index_np.html

Bush was AWOL
by kos
Wed Jan 12th, 2005 at 10:22:14 PST

With all the wingnut crowing about CBS and 60 Minutes, you'd think they blew the story that Bush had been AWOL. Fact is, CBS got one piece of evidence wrong, from a while truckload of evidence.
Fact is, the Associated Press did the most work on the issue, filing a whole slew of FOIA requests and lawsuits to get the necessary docs. Salon summarized their findings.

Upon being accepted for pilot training, Bush promised to serve with his parent (Texas) Guard unit for five years once he completed his pilot training.
But Bush served as a pilot with his parent unit for just two years.

In May 1972 Bush left the Houston Guard base for Alabama. According to Air Force regulations, Bush was supposed to obtain prior authorization before leaving Texas to join a new Guard unit in Alabama.
But Bush failed to get the authorization.

In requesting a permanent transfer to a nonflying unit in Alabama in 1972, Bush was supposed to sign an acknowledgment that he received relocation counseling.
But no such document exists.

continued at www.dailykos.com

[indepat]

1. Even if 100% valid, most of the people just don't care

[realFedUp]

3. Just for the record...

it's good to realize that the witchhunt against
60 Minutes producers doesn't mean that the initial
truth about Bush and his character isn't true.

[ScaRBama]

7. True......Well said

[rkc3]

5. You're right, this isn't as important as a blow job that killed 3K people.

[SmokingJacket]

8. They would care if the media made a big deal out of it...

They don't care because, well, since the news isn't covering it, it must not be news!

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[realFedUp]

6. I'm flattered you'll be using your only post at DU here...

get ready to parachute.

[Old and In the Way]

9. Actually, it's the people who could care less about this country who

could care less that Bush is an inside-trrading, AWOL warmonger.

[TomClash]

4. * still AWOL to this day

[hiley]

10. TomClash

thank you for making me laugh so hard !
I will have to say that to my husband when he gets home and starts ranting about this again.:toast:

[TomClash]

11. Cool!

:toast:


:dem:

[Octafish]

12. The Coward from Crawford.

The crazy monkey is a chicken.



Smirking War Criminal

http://www.awolbush.com/

[oasis]

13. Bush dodged combat and our troops should know it.

[porkrind]

14. Isn't it amazing how they spin?

Spin, spin, spin around the fact that * was AWOL?

[LynnTheDem]

15. DESERTER. AWOL over 30 days = DESERTER.

And he was a DESERTER in time of war, yet...