New Bush Guard Records Released

rwiedower writes "Over the past 24 hours, several new stories have emerged surrounding President Bush's service in the National Guard. Memos from his commanding officer seem to indicate he was unhappy with Bush's desire to leave Texas, and that he felt Bush was going 'over his head' to get out of service. In true slashdot/military/government fashion, Killian even titled one memo 'CYA'. (The memos, in pdf format, are available here.)"

Comments

Re:Hoax?

[MisterTut]

Damn! sorry.
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=1252 4_Bush_Guard_Documents-_Forgeries

Are they proud of it?

[RealProgrammer]

John Kerry first came to national prominence by testifying under oath before the U.S. Senate that he witnessed events to which he was not a witness. He's proud of that testimony, and still claims it was true.

George Bush did what he could to avoid personally going to war. He doesn't campaign on it.

John Kerry is still the same guy.

George Bush is not the same guy.

Relevant? Yep.

Re:True Lies

[Marxist Hacker 42]

So, why not Saudi Arabia? Because Saudi Arabia is an official ally. Saudi Arabia already provides us with needed capabilities in the region, and is critical at this early phase of change in the mideast. Saudi Arabia will be one of the first to go when our support wanes and its royalty is overthrown. By that time, hopefully strong Western-friendly official governments will be present in more nations in the locale which will influence the outcome in the lands of Arabia.

An official ally the funds training camps for terrorsts that attacked you is no ally at all- there is NO chance of ever having a Western-friendly government after the attrocities of Abu Gharib, no matter how you spin it it looks bad for anybody who isn't a fundamentalist Islamic to take over any of the nations in the region NOW.

None of what you, or I, say, of course, changes the fact that the people of Iraq are now indeed liberated, even in the face of radicals and insurgents within the country who thirst for control.

Yep, liberated to be arrested and beat up and humiliated in US Run prisons. At least Saddam had the mercy to kill those he tortured. Some liberation, that. And the Western-friendly government that is ruining 5000 years of Iraqi civilization that replaced the Western-friendly dictatorship of the 1970s that also was hell bent on destroying Iraqi civilization? We would have been FAR better off if we had just let the Soviets deal with the reigion to begin with and kept working on lower-energy transportion & eletricity generation.

Re:Thanks for making my point

[bonkedproducer]

Are you a fool Khasim??? He plainly points out two specific statements by Kerry that could not both be true - that means he did lie at some point about throwing the medals away.

Now I wasn't there, so I don't know which one is a lie and which one is a truth, but two opposite responses to the same question means that one of those if a lie.

LIE:
n.
1. A false statement deliberately presented as being true; a falsehood.
2. Something meant to deceive or give a wrong impression.

Here is a FACT for you to claim I am not providing - You cannot answer both yes and no to the question "Did you throw your medals away?" without either the yes or the no being a lie.

He told you specifically what lie he told. I have defined lie. He did not tell you what "TRUTH" he told because that is in question because of the "Lies" he has told - this doesn't mean that a lie was not told. Sorry if this bruises your fragile little views.

Here's another little lie for you:

From the congressional record in 1986 John Kerry being quoted here: "I remember Christmas of 1968 sitting on a gunboat in Cambodia. I remember what it was like to be shot at by Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge and Cambodians, and have the president of the United States telling the American people that I was not there; the troops were not in Cambodia. I have that memory which is seared -- seared -- in me."

He has repeated this claim at least 8 times on public record since a letter to the Boston Herald in 1979. So, is it true? Not now, according to Kerry - he now says he was never in Cambodia... hmmmm.