Why Hasn't Bush Released All of His Military Records?

[QC]

All of them.

Including the eighteen months that he couldn't bother to show up. Including the drug test that he dared not take. Including the circumstances under which he scored a 25/100 on the aptitude test and still got to go to pilot school.

Aren't these the questions Democrats should be asking now?

I know it's much more fun to eviscerate our own candidates now, as we always do in the traditional Democratic Circular Firing Squad, and thus soften them up for the Oligarchy's eventual candidate, but I, in my clumsy, old-fashioned way, can't help but think that maybe we at DU should just maybe, possibly, perhaps, direct some of our withering fire at the other team for a change.

[JailBush]

1. BUSH FLEW?

Remember the brief but fierce "Bush Knew" campaign? How about this for a Campaign 2004 slogan: BUSH FLEW?

Seriously - Is there solid evidence to indicate that that jackass ever flew a plane, even just once? I'd like to see a copy of his flight logbook. I'd like to know roughly how many flights he has made.

[salinen]

2. * finally

finished his tour of duty by stealing his diploma aboard the "US Abraham Lincoln". "Mission Accomplished."

[wtmusic]

6. Yes * actually flew

and I read an interview with an instructor who claimed he was in the top 5% in reflexes and actually quite a skillful: pilot.

S'okay. In my book he'll always be Bunnypants the AWOL draft-dodging frat-boy miscreant:

http://www.talion.com/georgebush.html#1

[1songbird]

3. You know that's right on point.

I'm not a Deaniac but I get ticked when Dean is put on the hotseat about his army record. It's jacked because no one in the media will question Dubya.

[JackSwift]

4. Bush was a secret operative for the CIA

during his last 18 months. He singlehandedly won the Vietnam War. But it's still top secret. It's so secret that most people don't know that we won the Vietnam War, and we can't tell them.

[wtmusic]

5. He's extremely modest

and he might die of embarrassment if it became public

[girl gone mad]

10. don't forget...

he was testing next generation aircraft for the air force in the Texas National Guard.

[drfemoe]

7. sounds good

http://www.awolbush.com/

http://www.veteransforpeace.org/what_do_you_say_032203.htm
By Bill Burkett
Online Journal Contributing Writer

March 19, 2003—I've sat in total grief for the past three years, watching the institutions of America being spent as if they were lottery winnings.

I don't want to say it, "But I told you so."

In January of 1998 and what seems like a full lifetime ago, I was stricken by a deadly case of meningoencephalitis. I was returning from a short duty trip to Panama as a team chief to inspect the hand over of Ft. Clayton to the Panamanians. I had been 'loaned' from the senior staff and state planning officer of the Texas National Guard to the Department of the Army for a series of these special projects after angering George W. Bush by refusing to falsify readiness information and reports; confronting a fraudulent funding scheme which kept 'ghost' soldiers on the books for additional funding, and refusing to alter official personnel records .

George W. Bush and his lieutenants were mad. They ordered that I not be accessed to emergency medical care services, healthcare benefits I earned by my official duty; and I was withheld from medical care for 154 days before I was withdrawn from Texas responsibility by the Department of the Army, by order of the White House.

I was a pawn then caught in a struggle for right and wrong, but also caught within a political struggle between a man who would do anything to be 'king' of America and an institution of laws that we knew as America.
.... con't

[punpirate]

8. Part of the record has been expunged...

... think an ANG colonel had something to say about that (Bill Burkett?). The parts that are publicly available aren't flattering, and aren't fully explainable, so I would expect the parts that aren't available to be even worse.

But, the truth is, that demand was made in the 2000 campaign and was ignored--why now should Bush slit his throat when he's gotten away with ignoring a similar request earlier?

Nope, it's okay to keep this in the public view, because it's germane, but it's not going to dramatically affect the outcome.

9/11 is current and people have many sympathies for the victims of those events. I'm putting my money on the real possibility that putting pressure on the committee to stand up to the White House will get a hell of a lot more negative attention for the White House and its current occupants. That and more attention to the lies told in preparation for the current invasion. Those issues are on people's minds these days. Bush's Guard record is more than ancient history to most voters. It should have counted in 2000, and it didn't. It will count even less in 2004.

Cheers.

[HEyHEY]

9. Good point I'm suprised a savy young journalist hasn't done so

Maybe it would do some good to try it yourself. Either way I think his records speak the loudest for how "American" he actually is.

[tlb]

11. The Deanies have explained how closed records are actually good.

They were so persuasive how it is right and smart to hide your records, so isn't that door closed now ?

[Jerseycoa]

12. Good point (eom)