Another article NO ONE SHOULD READ - DO NOT READ THIS!

[mbali]

Mr. Bush's Glass House
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

President Bush's paramount problem with his National Guard years is not that he took shortcuts in 1972. The problem is that he still refuses to come clean about it. So as we get caught up in the furor over the CBS documents showing favoritism in President Bush's National Guard career, let's bear a couple of points in mind.

First, there's reason to be suspicious of some of those CBS documents. For starters, a Guard veteran who worked with the supposed author, Lt. Col. Jerry Killian, tells me that abbreviations in the documents are wrong. He says group should be "GP" rather than "GRP," there should be no period after "Lt," and Mr. Bush's Social Security number should have been used rather than his old service number.

Second, we shouldn't be distracted by our doubts about the CBS documents. There's no doubt that Mr. Bush benefited from favoritism. The speaker of the Texas House has acknowledged making the call to get Mr. Bush into the National Guard.

Does any of this matter? What troubles me is less Mr. Bush's advantage three decades ago and more his denial today. Mr. Bush's own route to avoid the draft underscores the disparities in America, yet his policies seem based on a kind of social Darwinism in which the successful make their own opportunities. His tax cuts and entire outlook seem rooted in ideas not of noblesse oblige, but of noblesse entitlement.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/15/opinion/15kris.html

[Mr_Spock]

1. I didn't read it - promise.

I'm so glad Bush learned about the cold reality of war in Vietnam.

[seabeyond]

2. i think even more it is rove. ss#

i read this in an article that was so exact and good. i dont remember where i found it. i was reading everything on the net to understand bush past about 6 months ago. and in one of the documents i read not only did he get his dr liscence changed, he got a new ss#


"Mr. Bush's Social Security number should have been used rather than his old service number"

they didnt want his old ss # on this document

why would someone change their ss #. no one is allowed

[Bhaisahab]

3. Kristoff spanking bush?

now i've seen it all!

(actually no, i still wanna see ann coulter eating crow)

[librechik]

4. he means droit de seigneur

the right of the Nobleman to deflower the girls on their wedding night.
And take anyone's money that he wishes.

"noblesse entitlement?" Please....

[EndElectoral]

5. Does anyone beleive they're forged?

I mean if I wanted to forge a document in something this important would I

a. Have done it on a word processor?
b. Passed the docs off to the WH for approval?
c. Not set up a verfiable way to establish the legitiamcy of the docs?

If these docs are forged then the forgers were unbeleivably stupid, or deliberately wanted to be caught.