CNN: Group offers $50,000 for proof of Bush service

[Raster]

CNN) -- The founder of the group Texans for Truth said Tuesday that he is offering $50,000 to anyone who can prove President Bush fulfilled his service requirements, including required duties and drills, in the Alabama Air National Guard in 1972.

The group made the announcement as Bush was in Las Vegas, Nevada, to address the National Guard Association's convention.

"Today would be a fine day for him to finally answer all the questions that have dogged him since he entered public life," the group's founder, Glenn Smith, said in a statement.

"Bush's dishonesty about missing from service during Vietnam goes to the heart of his presidency. He was dishonest then just as he is misleading us about why we went to war with Iraq. He dodges responsibility then just as he dodges responsibility for Iraq today."

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http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/14/bush.texans/index.html

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

1. Didn't Doonesbury already do this?

[proud patriot]

2. Yes , but the reward wasn't nearly as big

:shrug:

[krkaufman]

8. Trudeau's offer was $10,000 n/t

[lcooksey]

5. Trudeau offered $10,000 IRC

Didn't get any takers. Offering $50,000 is a great way to up the ante. If there was anyone in Alamaba who saw him do a single day of service, grab the loot.

*crickets chirping*

Yeah, I thought so. :)

[Sugarbleus]

10. LOL---->*crickets chirping*

Smooth move offering a reward. I'm LOVIN' it.

[Bandit]

24. I guess that means there is $60,000. up for grabs

I heard that number mentioned a few days ago on CBS Evening News. I would venture a guess that it is Safe Money.

[DFWJock]

12. Im offering $5.00

to anyone who can prove that George Bush has active brain cells.

[KeepItReal]

31. Gimme five!!

It takes active brain cells to enable him to ride a mountain bike or mount a Segway Human Transporter.... It's those *inactive* ones that let him fall off both of them.

:-)

[amber dog democrat]

3. WTF ? make it a million dollar reward.

No one will ever collect it.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA

[pinniped]

28. Just like the rewards on OBL and al-Zaqawi will remain uncollected.

n/t

[amber dog democrat]

29. But unlike the Chimp AWOL award

whomever collects for OBL and Al Zaqawi may not live long to enjoy it.

[LynzM]

42. not sure that...

Anyone who collected the AWOL award would, either. Read Kitty Kelley's interview in Salon yesterday.... yikes.

[Barkley]

43. You're Right!: A millions would catch more headlines than 50K!

[salinen]

4. I wish we could up this

to a cool million.

[quaoar]

7. We can

[krkaufman]

6. Excellent.

Truly, if the right-wing and Bushies felt that someone *COULD* come forward with proof of his service, wouldn't it be in their interest to pump-up this fund in order to draw them out?

The fact that they're not doing so, is proof enough to me that the allegations of Bush's absence from duty are true.

[Catfight]

9. Sweet! I'm waiting for someone to step forward...class, anyone..class.

[Bridget Burke]

11. And they're pointing out AWOL's relevance to Iraq.

Which is really important, I think.

[rwork]

13. Maybe Skinner could organize

A DU type 50,000 member fund raiser and we could raise $1,000,000. Skinner is it possible?

[Libby2]

14. This might be just the thing to pull Osama out

of the woodwork..

[DoYouEverWonder]

15. I guess James Bath

doesn't need the money. Oh that's right, he quit too.

[Tuttle]

21. Do the coalition members ever payout with reward $$$?

I don't think -- wasn't there some huge reward offered for Saddam? I know Bruce Willis offered $1,000,000 -- never saw any mention of a payout, though.

I would venture a guess that people do not trust our word (can you blame them?)

Tut-tut

[Zorra]

16. I just made up a batch of "REWARD OFFERED!" posters and am

going to put them in strategic locations in my area. They look something like this, except that the heading is huge.

---------------REWARD OFFERED!-------------

Group offers $50,000 for proof of Bush service

Tuesday, September 14, 2004 Posted: 3:33 PM EDT (1933 GMT)

(CNN) -- The founder of the group Texans for Truth said Tuesday that he is offering $50,000 to anyone who can prove President Bush fulfilled his service requirements, including required duties and drills, in the Alabama Air National Guard in 1972.

"Today would be a fine day for him to finally answer all the questions that have dogged him since he entered public life," the group's founder, Glenn Smith, said in a statement.

"Bush's dishonesty about missing from service during Vietnam goes to the heart of his presidency. He was dishonest then just as he is misleading us about why we went to war with Iraq. He dodges responsibility then just as he dodges responsibility for Iraq today."

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/14/bush.texans/index.html

For information about the reward, email [e-mail].

[wildflower]

17. Great...and looks so much better than offering a reward to prove

that the documents are authentic. Who was offering that reward? Someone at FR, I think.

-wildflower

[skordane]

18. Why Doesn't George Soros Offer $1 Million

Why doesn't somebody like George Soros offer really big money. That would really splash on the news.

[librechik]

30. I agree--we need big bucks here n/t

don't worry, rich funders, you won't lose it!

[chelsea0011]

19. Hell......$10,000,000 can't even find Osama these days

[Emillereid]

20. I think the money is safe!

[The Night Owl]

22. We should ask Soros to pitch in another $50,000! (NT)

[0007]

23. A quarter of mill voting? .....and still going strong!

Do you think a candidate's military history should be a campaign issue?
Yes
58%
144819 votes

No
42%
104602 votes

Total: 249421 votes

[Career Prole]

25. "White House press secretary Scott McClellan said Tuesday

that the president has seen the documents and "he has no recollection" of any of them."

No shit, Sherlock...they weren't written to him they were written about him.

[napi21]

26. Doesn't matter. He can't remember how to pronounce words either!

Why would anyone think he would remember something older than a week?

[freeplessinseattle]

27. why isn't W offering a reward?

if he's so proud of his service and wants to clear things up??

that in itself is pretty telling.

[Zorra]

32. kick - any takers? I didn't think so. LOL.

[struggle4progress]

33. Damn, George! Cain't none a yer friends remember seein' ya? An' ...

... why cain't yew remember narry a one a them?

[Odd Little Man]

34. Expect a flood of claims

Nothing attracts lying Republicans like money

[Carolab]

35. Why not offer $50,000

to anyone who can prove the CBS memos are forgeries, too?

[Zorra]

36. Surely some freeper can back up their little hero? No? Why not?

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

37. kick

MKJ

:kick:

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

38. So this is how you get an unfreeped thread.

:think:

[NNN0LHI]

39. Very astute observation n/t

[joefree1]

40. I'd be rich!

If someone offered $50,000 to prove Bush screwing our country. Damn.


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[0007]

41. btt

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