BUSH GUARD SERVICE -- "SHIFTING REASONS" GIVEN BY AIDES

[BayStateBoy]

The Associated Press
Published: Oct 26, 2004

WASHINGTON (AP) - A look at some of the shifting explanations President Bush and his spokesmen have given for events in Bush's Texas Air National Guard service:
THE QUESTION

Why did Bush skip a required yearly medical examination in 1972?

THE EXPLANATIONS

July 1999: Campaign spokeswoman Karen Hughes tells reporters Bush missed his physical because he was working on a political campaign in Alabama and had no access to the "special" doctors who perform the examinations...

No Alabama Air National Guard records have surfaced showing Bush did any duty there. Former commanders and other members of the 187th in 1972 and 1973 say they don't remember ever seeing Bush there.

One former member of the unit, retired Lt. Col. John Calhoun, has said he remembers Bush showing up for weekend training drills with the 187th during the summer and fall of 1972. Bush's records, however, show he was never paid for any dates in 1972 when the 187th performed its weekend drills.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBIMNYHS0E.html

[Doug Decker]

1. Welcome to DU, but please edit your post...

to 4 paragraphs. This is for copy write reasons.

Great information, glad you're here!

[nostalgicaboutmyfutr]

2. like they say from the simpsons:

HA------HA !!

[Brundle_Fly]

9. Nelson

Checkpoint.

[Tight_rope]

3. And the list could go on forever with all the other lies.

[krkaufman]

4. Shiny object! Shiny object!!

Personally, I give a rip about B*'s National Guard Duty, and feel any discussion of it at this point is counter-productive.

There's plenty of incompetence from his 3 1/2 years as pResident to be addressed.

[Demit]

5. that's incredible! AP wrote this? Has anybody picked it up yet?

It's wonderful to see it all laid out (again). It would be nice if some of the major papers printed it. Even just the differing lame explanations v. the facts.

[BayStateBoy]

7. AP wrote it, but No Legs (Yet)

[UpInArms]

6. thanks for the post and welcome to DU BayStateBoy!

per DU posting rules, please edit your post and <snip> all but 4 or 5 paragraphs :hi:

[Beaverhausen]

8. rate it at yahoo

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041026/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_guard_chronology_2

[acmavm]

12. 5:51 p.m. CST

You have given the news article Chronology on Bush Nat'l Guard Service a rating of 5.
Its current average rating is 4.35 with 339 vote(s).

[Cocoa]

10. Excellent reporting

this is the way a president as dishonest as Bush should have been reported on all along, by every news outlet. Instead, most news stories just add to the confusion.

[blm]

11. Sent to my local paper.

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[daa]

13. I want to know why Chimpy didn't

take his physical THIS year??????????????????? What is he hiding?????????

[VegasWolf]

14. The little alien on his back is hatching, therefore he doesn't want

it disclosed.

New Information Shows Bush Indecisive, Paranoid, Delusional

[Chicago Democrat]

15. Its all because it was the first time drug tests were done...

and we all know that was Bush's "Lost Year"

Mine was 1996 hehe

[DemoTex]

16. George W. Bush's Bright Shining Lies

George Herbert Walker Bush's inauguration speech of 1989 makes more sense now than it did on that January day fifteen years ago. The elder Bush's "Thousand Points of Light" is a perfect metaphor for his son George Bush's constellation of bright shining lies. Like stars spangled across an ink-black sky, George Bush's lies seem to come in all magnitudes. (More ...)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/04/02/21_lies.html