GEORGE "DUBYA" BUSH AND HIS "PHANTOM" NATIONAL GUARD DUTY 

"There ought to be limits
to freedom..."

— George W. Bush,
commenting on the website
www.gwbush.com

QUOTE OF THE MONTH: "If you don't think it's a gamble to put a man in the White House who believes we should have guns in church, who thinks the Taliban is a rock band, who was such a failure as a businessman that his company was nicknamed "El-Busto," who wants to turn our Social Security system into a Wall Street boiler room, who can't name a single thing he disagrees with Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson on, who smeared a bona fide hero named John McCain, and whose principle policy proposal is to give America's surplus to the idle rich in the form of a $1.3 trillion tax cut, you're either nuts or a Republican."

... Equal Time co-host Paul Begala, shooting the bull.

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2004 3:39 PM -  BUSH AIDES ACCUSED OF DESTROYING MILITARY DOCUMENTS

Just four days after pledging to open up his entire military file, President Bush has reneged on the pledge, with "Administration officials declining yesterday to commit to releasing further records" on top of the inconclusive ones they have already released. Additionally, new charges have surfaced that Bush actually deployed his Texas gubernatorial staff to destroy incriminating records. As first reported by the Dallas Morning News, retired National Guard Lt. Col. Bill Burkett said that, in 1997, Joe Allbaugh (chief of staff for then-Governor Bush) told the National Guard chief to get the Bush file and make certain "there's not anything there that will embarrass the governor." Burkett said that a few days later at Camp Mabry in Austin, he "saw Mr. Bush's file and documents from it discarded in a trash can." While the White House has claimed the attack is baseless, Burkett's credibility was bolstered today after the New York Times reported that he made his complaint known right after the incident.

In 1998, he sent a letter to a member of the Texas State Senate saying Bush and his aides improperly reviewed the file to "make sure nothing will embarrass the governor during his re-election campaign." Burkett repeated in interviews this week that Bush and his aides "ordered Guard officials to remove damaging information from Mr. Bush's military personnel files." Yesterday, the commander of the Alabama unit Bush claimed he served in during his year-long absence said "[Bush] never did come to my squad. He was never at my unit." Additionally, in a signed report, commanding officers in Houston said Bush "has not been observed." In order to clear up the controversy, the president would have to follow through on his Sunday pledge to release all of his records rather than continue stonewalling. Visit http://www.Misleader.org for more about Bush Administration distortion.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2004 6:20 PM - BUSH STILL REFUSES TO RELEASE MILITARY DOCUMENTS

On Sunday, President Bush pledged in the Oval Office to release any and all documents related to whether he fulfilled his Vietnam-era National Guard duty. And yesterday, the White House claimed the documents it released fulfilled that Oval Office pledge. However, just hours after that declaration, White House communications director Dan Bartlett "confirmed that Bush's complete personnel file is being forwarded to Washington from an archive in Denver" but only "for review" by the White House - not necessarily release to the public.

Military experts said records like those being "reviewed" by the White House could definitively prove where Bush was, unlike those documents released yesterday which do not. But records such as those being "reviewed" by the White House "cannot be released without Bush's authorization," a process that would simply require the president to sign release forms (see a sample form). To date "Bush has not consented, despite his claim that he made public all his records in 2000."  Without that authorization, the government has denied Freedom of Information Act requests seeking relevant documents.

The White House claimed the documents it released yesterday show "President Bush fulfilling his duties in the National Guard" during Vietnam. However, the documents released actually showed that Bush "did not receive military pay from May to September of 1972" - a five month gap in service where Bush also "refused to take his annual physical and was grounded as a pilot." White House spokesman Scott McClellan refused to say whether Bush actually showed up for service, only saying that Bush was paid. In all, the records "do not show the exact nature or whereabouts of Bush's service during that period."

In a year spanning 1972 and 1973, Bush claims to have served in the Alabama National Guard and in Houston, but the White House cannot produce a single human being to validate that claim. While Bush says there is "no evidence" to prove whether he did or did not show up for service, that is not true - those who would have overseen his service specifically report that he was absent. In Alabama, the commander of the unit Bush would have been in said today, "He never did come to my squad. He was never at my unit." Additionally, in a signed report, commanding officers in Houston said Bush "has not been observed."

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