It's being glossed over that Bush LIED about National Guard service

[glarius]

There is a point that is being missed by the media (on purpose?) about whether or not Bush's National Guard service of 30 years ago is pertinent today!....The point is not whether or not he was remiss in his military duties 30 years ago...The point is that for all these years, and still today, Bush has LIED about it!....His biggest selling point has been that he is straightforward, and tells the truth!......His "I'm one of you and you can trust me" is a SHAM!.....This is the point that Joe Lockhart and the others should be emphasizing....I believe that is why he is as high as he is in the polls....The people feel they can trust him to do the right thing!...IMO...

[onehandle]

1. This isn't over yet.

Although I am personally tired of the letters C-B-S in headlines, there is more to come.

On Friday more records are being released due to the AP suit. Hold on.

[childslibrarian]

2. You are right

and they are glossing it over. I am home sick today and I am appalled at the media and the false stories they are selling. There is barely a mention of the truth of any kind...
The media is determined to win this election for Bush.

[glarius]

3. They don't show the part of the clip where the secretary said "everything

in the documents is true". She (the 86 yr. old sec. to the dead officer) said that right after she said, "I did not type this", but the media always cuts it off before she agrees that the contents of the document are true whether the document is forged or not....It's disgusting!

[GoSolar]

4. It has to be deliberate.

How else could the press miss the real story of Bush's record?
The fact that Bush was remiss in his duty 30 years ago is still quite relevant, especially when compared to Kerry's service record. The fact that Bush so blatantly lies about his record makes it even worse.

[newyawker99]

7. Hi GoSolar!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Octafish]

5. THAT was the point.

Kerry is an honorable man, tested under combat. Even under fire, Kerry ALWAYS took the correct course of action.

OTOH, the psychopathic moron has never worked a day in his life. His daddy had to bail him out of everything from Vietnam to the Harris County jail.

You wouldn't know this looking at the coverage of Election 2004.

[liberalitch]

6. On CNN this morning....

Some idiot actually tried to say that bush was never suspended from flying, that he didn't miss a physical... even the interviewer (one of the bimbos that all look alike on CNN)... had to say "well sir there ARE valid questions out there re: bush's history w/ the TANG"
He would hear none of it!

[tom_paine]

8. Of course it is. Did you think you lived in a Free Nation?

Well we DON'T, in spite ofthe fact that, for the moment, the trappings are such that denial about the rot at the top is easy.

[MISSDem]

9. Exactly. They are screaming that the documents are fake

but not talking about the under lying fact that the information contained within them is true. Even they White House has not denied the truth of them; they only say the docs are fake.

[MISSDem]

10. And also, I thought that they had already

released all of the documents. Yet more are coming.

[Octafish]

11. Bush is the Coward from Crawford.

And that's being nice to the unelected Little Turd from Crawford.

Bush in the National Guard: A primer

The flap over dubious documents has obscured the real story. Here it is.

By Eric Boehlert

Sept. 20, 2004  |  Under order from U.S. District Court Judge Harold Baer Jr. to find and make public any of President Bush's military records that had not already been released, the Pentagon late on Friday released yet another batch of documents. None of the new paperwork addresses the lingering questions surrounding Bush's service in the Texas Air National Guard during the height of the Vietnam War, how Bush's own records indicate he missed mandatory duty for months at a time, or how he managed to go unsupervised for nearly two years. The federal court order stems from an ongoing lawsuit filed by the Associated Press in June to obtain all of Bush's relevant records. In February, when White House aides told reporters they had made public "absolutely everything" about Bush's military service, the AP noticed several obvious gaps and went to court to obtain additional documents.

The lawsuit had already resulted in the disclosure of previously unreleased flight logs that indicated that Bush, a fully trained pilot since 1970, often flew two-seater training jets in March 1972, shortly before he piloted a plane for the last time. This despite his promise, when he entered the Guard's training program, to serve as a full pilot until 1974.

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http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/09/20/bush_guard_records/index_np.html