Google News: Bush Fell Short of Military Obligation

[rndmprsn]

just saw a thread containing 517 related stories on the "more top stories" section...it started off with the rueters story:

Report: Bush Fell Short of Military Obligation
Reuters - 13 minutes ago
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.


good to see this starting to get legs...

[BeatleBoot]

1. Link?

[madmax]

3. google

Report: Bush Fell Short of Military Obligation
Reuters - 23 minutes ago
BOSTON (Reuters) - President Bush fell short of meeting his military obligations during the Vietnam War and was not disciplined despite irregular attendance at ...
Bush fell short on duty at Guard Boston Globe
Records show Bush fell short on Guard pledge Pioneer Press (subscription)
AP Gets New Bush Military Records as Major 'Globe' Report Appears Editor & Publisher (subscription)
Seattle Post Intelligencer - all 517 related »

[rndmprsn]

5. Link, and on CNN now

http://news.google.com/

and...

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/08/bush.national.ap/

[David__77]

2. Here's a link...

I looked it up:

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/09/08/bush_fell_short_on_duty_at_guard/

On July 30, 1973, shortly before he moved from Houston to Cambridge, Bush signed a document that declared, ''It is my responsibility to locate and be assigned to another Reserve forces unit or mobilization augmentation position. If I fail to do so, I am subject to involuntary order to active duty for up to 24 months. . . " Under Guard regulations, Bush had 60 days to locate a new unit.

But Bush never signed up with a Boston-area unit. In 1999, Bush spokesman Dan Bartlett told the Washington Post that Bush finished his six-year commitment at a Boston area Air Force Reserve unit after he left Houston. Not so, Bartlett now concedes. ''I must have misspoke," Bartlett, who is now the White House communications director, said in a recent interview.

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Lechliter said the records push him to conclude that Bush had little interest in fulfilling his obligation, and his superiors preferred to look the other way. Others agree. ''It appears that no one wanted to hold him accountable," said retired Major General Paul A. Weaver Jr., who retired in 2002 as the Pentagon's director of the Air National Guard.

[Az_lefty]

4. I say we put him on active duty in Iraq for 24 months!

Fu*k that little frat boy!
:mad: