Look how Reuters tiptoes around AWOL issue

freedom_to_read

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Wed Sep-08-04 04:06 PM
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Look how Reuters tiptoes around AWOL issue

Edited on Wed Sep-08-04 04:06 PM by freedom_to_read

Check this out:

New Questions Raised on Bush Military Record (Reuters)

Reuters - President Bush fell short of meeting his military obligations during the Vietnam War and was not disciplined despite irregular attendance at required training drills, the Boston Globe said on Wednesday. 9/8/2004 2:57 PM

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20040908/ts_nm/campaign_bush_vietnam_dc

What's up with a news source quoting another news source as a third-party? The Boston Globe said? How freaking substantiated does something need to be before they call it a fact?!? If it relates to Bush, I guess it can only be accepted as proven when we invent a bloody time machine...

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