National Guard hands over more Bush papers (yes, more)

[Newsjock]

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BUSH_GUARD?SITE=ININS&SECTION=US&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

By MATT KELLEY
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) -- More than a week after a court-imposed deadline to turn over all records of President Bush's military service, the Texas Air National Guard belatedly produced two documents Tuesday that include Bush's orders for his last day of active duty in 1973.

The orders show Bush was on "no-fly" status for his last days of duty because he had been grounded almost a year earlier for skipping an annual medical exam.

The files, released to The Associated Press under a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, are orders for Bush to appear for two stints of active-duty training: a 1971 exercise in Canada and eight days of duty in July 1973.

The records released Tuesday are the fifth set of documents related to Bush's Vietnam-era National Guard service to be released in response to the AP lawsuit. The federal judge overseeing that case ordered the Pentagon to disclose all of Bush's records by Sept. 24. Tuesday's four pages of records were the second set of files released after that deadline.

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[nostalgicaboutmyfutr]

1. will it even stop dripping?

(No.)

[Jack from Charlotte]

22. This is the 5th document drop from AWOL/moron since he said on Russerts

Meet The Press interview in February, that all documnets had already been released.

[rainy]

2. This is big....

Why is it not all over the news?

[Jim Sagle]

3. Because w's a Republican.

[daa]

16. Repukes make war

they don't serve.

[Rockholm]

23. That is SO sad and SO very true,

[acmavm]

4. So, according to the dead-from-the-neck-up faker in the White House,

he trained on F-102s and "continued to fly for several years". What was he flying? A flight simulator, paper airplanes, what?

This clown should have been activated. No two ways about it.

And shouldn't someone's ass be in trouble because they're just dribbling this shit out a couple of pages at a time?

[JohnyCanuck]

10. Maybe Dubya was referring to those balsa wood stick models

with the wind up rubber band propellors. I used to have hours of fun flying them too.

[sam sarrha]

15. Fly'n HIGH on Coke and Wacky Weed...

[Pirate Smile]

5. Hmmm, did Bush follow those orders? I don't think so but I would

really prefer to focus on the disaster he has started in Iraq.

Of course, proving he has lied over and over again about his own military record isn't something I would snub.

[JoFerret]

6. Here's the same story on Yahoo

if you want to rate it up.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041005/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_guard_1

[Barrett808]

8. Done. 4.35 with 29 votes n/t

[truthisfreedom]

17. rated the yahoo version 5, and now it's even higher at 4.45 with over 100

votes. remarkable!

[bluedonkey]

7. The ink wasn't dry

that's why they missed the deadline.
I thought all the papers were shredded?!

[Career Prole]

9. Hey! It's not Friday night yet!

Who authorized that document dump?

[AlCzervik]

11. No kidding, i have my calendar all screwed up now!

More documents, less info. What the hell is the point of them releasing these?

[SoCalDem]

13. The debate will absorb all the oxygen and ink..

:)

[Wonk]

21. Post-debate kick

:kick:

[n2mark]

12. Hmmmm!

Why now? Someone has been sitting on this.....what else is being hidden? This also is too funny.

Really, not sure of this and why now?

[Beetwasher]

14. Now The FORGERY STORY Becomes More Clear

It was preemption for this set of documents that corroborates what was in the memos:

The orders show Bush was on "no-fly" status for his last days of duty because he had been grounded almost a year earlier for skipping an annual medical exam.

This story may have been somewhat neutralized by the charge of forgery and the CBS diversion.

[teryang]

18. When I was in the IRR I was ordered to get a physical

It was a five year physical. I didn't get one on active duty my last few years on duty and then my exit physical was skipped because of the more pressing need to examine people being mobilized for Desert Storm. A few years later after separation when I was ordered to get the physical, I wasn't obligated, so I skipped it.

I got orders 30 days later telling me to get the physical or be ordered to active duty or to resign my commission. I was told that if I didn't resign I would be subject to the UCMJ for failure to obey a lawful order.

[LiberalFighter]

19. Can't you claim the bush clause?

[oldhat]

20. Holy shit! Kick! Kick! Kick! Bad week for Georgie!

[Rockholm]

24. Double Kick.

[Supersedeas]

25. what???? More records??? Fire Dan Rather now!!!

[DemonFighterLives]

26. That last paragraph got my attention

Snip..
The records released Tuesday also include orders for an August 1971 training mission in Canada, where Bush impressed his commanders. An evaluation written nine months later said Bush's "skills as an interceptor pilot enabled him to complete all his ADC (Air Defense Command) intercept missions during the Canadian deployment with ease."

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Makes dub seem like a good troopy. Funny that it was written 9 months later. I don't know what to make of it.