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In reply to the discussion: Karl Rove is VERY AFRAID of the new Dan Rather - Robert Redford movie [View all]grasswire
(50,130 posts)Hmm......you apparently missed a significant episode of history in 2004.
I lived it.
A pig farmer in Iowa decided to research George W's military records. W. had joined the Texas Air National Guard and thus avoided Vietnam.
The pig farmer, through FOIA, discovered that W. had been absent from his post of duty in the TANG, and basically just stopped reporting. The pig farmer was a member of salon.com's message board called Table Talk. He brought the information to us there at Table Talk.
For months, we tried to get this evidence into the media and the national conversation. The Commander In Chief had gone AWOL in war time. The CiC who had sent men and women into harm's way in Iraq. We sent thousands of letters and emails. We made phone calls. An enormous effort took place by this little group of Table Talkers. Nothing worked.
Then the Boston Globe finally published a story about the evidence. And Senator Bob Kerrey called a press conference on the Friday before the election to ask President Bush about his military service.
On that same Friday, an operative for a FOX affiliate in New England broke the story of George's DUI years before. That story blew Kerrey's query out of the water.
End of story until Dan Rather was set up by Karl Rove and falsely discredited.
Why should anyone care? The COMMANDER IN CHIEF HAD GONE AWOL DURING WARTIME. He did not deserve to be elected or re-elected. It is spectacularly important.