This is the document Dan Rather is waiting for:

[shooga]

http://www.geocities.com/jdombrasqu/AWOL2.html

[Goldmund]

1. The letter "S" didn't exist until 1994

Must be fake.

[Fridays Child]

9. Actually, Sesame Street was brought to us by the letter "S" in 1976 but...

...it was not widely used until the '90s.

[VolcanoJen]

13. Oh, that's good!

Thanks for my much-needed nightly laugh, slavkomae! :-)

[Goldmund]

22. Any ole time VolcanoJen!

Just don't ask me for morning laughs. I'm grouchy until 6 PM.

[mhr]

2. The Question Remains - Why Did He Not Take The Physical?

eom

[loveable liberal]

3. what does this mean?

especially to his election bid. i read the document but what are the ramifications?

[punpirate]

11. It means...

... if the mainstream press would only pick up the story, is that Bush disobeyed a direct order from his superior to take his physical, and that document is the confirming order from the National Guard Bureau.

It means, simply, that all the excuses that Bush has been making for not taking his physical (planes obsolete, wasn't in Houston and didn't see his own physician, going to Alabama where he wasn't flying, etc.) are just bullshit lies.

This document has actually been around for quite a while--Marty Heldt first found it--but the press has largely ignored it. This document is the official end result of the memos that CBS received.

Cheers.

[Pallas180]

19. It means " Liar, liar, pants on fire" and what else has he lied about peop

people will begin to think ----maybe ---- finally

[Protected]

4. hmm, James Bath is there too

So what is "para 2-10, AFM 35-13?"

[Cronus Protagonist]

5. I could reproduce that document with an eyebrow pencil

Sheesh! How can it be real?

You might be a Republican if...
http://cronus.com/quiz

Commentary by a Republican...
http://cronus.com/republican

The REAL Republican Platform...
http://cronus.com/platform

Bush's Illustrated Resume
http://cronus.com/bushresume

Isn't That Strange?
http://cronus.com/oil

:)

[Swamp Rat]

14. You might be an alien lizard if you answered the same way as a republican.

I like your "you might be" test. Just replace republican with alien lizard and you'll see they answer the questions the same way.

[Blue Wally]

6. For what???

I don't think that George Bush has ever denied being suspended from flight status. Flight physical overdue, flight status suspended until flight physical is brought up to date.

[Pallas180]

18. Are you kidding me. ? never said anythign about being suspended

it was always he was working in Alabama on a campaign.

[REVOLT823]

7. This has been out there for a while if I am not mistaken, and he has

never denied being suspended for failing to take the physical, but why did he not take the physical, that is the big dealand the questions Dan Rather wants answered.

[Pallas180]

17. Of course he's denied. He's said there was no missing time

never has admitted any suspension, never has said anything about the
physical.

[Blue Wally]

20. Not taking the physical......

and missing drills are two different things. If he did not take the physical and was suspended from flight status, he would go to drill as a non-rated officer and get put to doing some unpleasant administrative chores (inventory the office supply cabinet, lieutenant).

[Cheswick2.0]

28. he didn't go to drill

he didn't show up

[shooga]

23. that's the sticky point ...

.... McClellan, Rove, and Hughes want to avoid ... WHY did he skip the medical exam ..... who cares about the f*cking font and superscripts.

Rich daddy boy didn't have to go by the rules the other regular schlubs had to.

[robbedvoter]

24. "Because he decided to stop flying" - McClelan during the Moore caused

AWOL discussion last time. Don't have the source, but I heard him with my two unbelieving ears: he simply decided to stop flying. In their world, it's enough :shrug:

[kayell]

27. More details from the spin cycle

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2357120

It was a noble sacrifice he made for his country to avoid needlessly depleting the military budget in a time of war.

[SidDithers]

34. Do all Guard members get to "decide" what their duties should be?...

I wonder how some of the Guardsmen and women in Iraq would like to have the same choice.

Sid

[speedoo]

8. Is that real?

Where did it come from?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

10. I think that one has been out there for a bit.

But here's the interesting thing: It says Bush (and his buddy, Bath) "will comply" with para. 2-10 of AFM 35-13 -- which specifies that "When a Rated Officer Fails To Accomplish a Medical Examination Prescribed by AFM ... (1) The local commander ... will direct an investigation ... (2) will forward the report along with the command recommendation to USAFMPC/DPMAJD, Randolph AFB TX 78148 for final determination."

There is no evidence that any such investigation ever occurred.

[ezee]

12. Why would a major (Bath)

let his carrier go down the drain over a physical unless it was quite damning. I wonder if anyone has looked at his records?

[Pallas180]

16. James Bath was a courier for the Saudis - I cant see the docs on top

cause it's not there anymore...

but last time these docs showed up released by the WH James Bath's name was scratched out ( I think cause he had been involved in the BCCI bank scandal)

You know the Bank of the Crooks and Criminals - money laundering for
drugs, CIA and the whole thing.

Now why wouldnt the resident want people to know he knew James Bath in
the Air Force ????

Anyway, your link doesn't work anymore and the point is not that the
docs are not real or forged..

The point is that the informationon them is real - and two people from the Air Force at that time have said so.

[Stephanie]

31. Here is more info on James Bath:

Here's an old thread on Bath - lots of good info inside:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1106153

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http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/11/1447218#transcript

AMY GOODMAN: And what is Bath’s connection to the Bushes?

J. H. HATFIELD: Well he was also in the National Guard with George W. back in the 70’s which is interesting too because in 1972 in August, my publisher was able not too long ago to get hold of Bush’s national guard records. And in 1972, at the same time we alleged he was doing community service for cocaine arrest James Bath who was in the unit with him. Both of them were grounded for failing to show up for medical exam. 14:19

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http://www.texasobserver.org/showArticle.asp?ArticleID=480

After the death of Mohammed bin Laden, control of the company passed to Salem bin Laden, Osama’s half brother. The roots of the first known Bush-bin Laden convergence date back to the mid-1970s, when the two clans were linked by a Houston businessman named James R. Bath. Bath had befriended George W. Bush in the late 1960s, when they both served in the Texas Air National Guard. By 1976, when Gerald Ford appointed the elder George Bush as CIA director, Bath was acting as a business agent for Salem bin Laden’s interests in Texas. (Texas and Saudi Arabia were well-connected by this point through U.S. oil companies and related industries with operations in both locations.) In 1991 Time magazine and later other publications reported on allegations by Bath’s former business partner that the Bush CIA hired Bath in 1976 to create offshore companies to move CIA funds and aircraft between Texas and Saudi Arabia.

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[mazzarro]

15. This ought to be emailed to CBS asap!

Dan Rather should get all the help he can summon to fend off the reThugs and their apologists.

[speedoo]

21. If this has been around for a while, one assumes Rather already has it.

And it's obviously damning.

So why has he not already shown it and talked about it?

Keeping his powder dry?

He has something else that's related such as evidence of the reasons the Bush and Bath (heh, heh... cute huh?) physicals were missed?

[robbedvoter]

25. site temporarily unavailable

[calimary]

26. Can't get the link - it says it's past some sort of limit for

transmittable data or some such thing... (probably got that wrong, I'm not great with computer terminology).

[rawstory]

29. DID ANYONE COPY THE DOCUMENT FILE?

We want to mirror it, since we don't run out of bandwidth, but I can't find it. Please PM me or email me @ [e-mail].

[Stephanie]

30. Do you have this one?

www.awolbush.com - many documents here - Marty Heldt filed early FOIA requests

[rawstory]

32. Yup, found it there. Here's a WORKING link for the document:

Thanks! We also have another document that's just come out, at http://rawstory.com, about Bush's five year contract that he signed (but didn't complete).

[Stephanie]

33. Posted above, here is an old research thread on Bath:

Might be helpful to you:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1106153

[kerry-is-my-prez]

35. Personally, I think that anyone who has gone AWOL or deserted

should be precluded from running for Presdient or even being able to serve in Congress.