Bush says he can't provide any evidence that he was not AWOL from the Guar

[buycitgo]

from locked thread, cause of candidate name mention

- President Bush (news - web sites) accused Democrats on Sunday of misrepresenting his record of attendance in the Air National Guard at the height of the Vietnam war, insisting "I did my duty" far from the front-lines although there may be no evidence.

.....Bush did not volunteer to serve in Vietnam. Instead he joined the Texas Air National Guard. "I flew fighters and enjoyed it, and we provided a service to our country," he told NBC's "Meet the Press."

.......Democrats have long challenged Bush's record of attendance in the guard in 1972 when he transferred temporarily to an Alabama unit to work on a political campaign....

Asked why no evidence has been found to show he reported to duty in Alabama during the summer and fall of 1972, Bush said: "There may be no evidence, but I did report. Otherwise, I wouldn't have been honorably discharged... I did show up in Alabama."

edit for correct link, thx to NNNLOH1

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=430...


see locked thread below

[buycitgo]

1. important thread....see below

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1097579

[buycitgo]

2. from thread.......pay stubs/tax returns.....said 'tableturner'

There is a time bomb awaiting either defusion or explosion that will go a long way toward assessing Bush's performance in the interview and whether he was helped or hurt by it. I am referring to his plainly stated pledge to release his pay stubs and tax records to prove his Natiional Guard service. While some parts of the answer on the AWOL issue were not so plain, the component where he promised to release those records WAS plain. He outright said he would do so and no matter what he and his people say later, if he does not do so, and I mean if he avoids specifically and openly releasing those pay records and tax returns, there will be no way to spin out of it. Either Bush knows something we don't, or he has been cornered and has made a huge mistake. However, it was inevitable. There is no way, with the renewed wide debate, that the specific questions that Russert asked could have been avoided at some later point. Either his pay records and tax returns show that he served during the time in question or he is nailed!

How can he get out of that?

[NNN0LHI]

3. Working link to story

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=4309129

[librechik]

4. hmm, yahoo scoured that story, huh?

too bad. The SCLM strikes again, no doubt.

[buycitgo]

5. and, of course, Russert failed to ask the OBvious question

when he said he enjoyed flying in the Guard:

WHY, then, did you STOP flying in April, 1972?

he didn't even have to ask about the physical; matter of fact, a "journalist" would have had that waiting for his response to the previous question, just in case he reeled off some lie about the physical.

[DemoTex]

6. Bu$h enjoyed the shit out of "flying." That was the problem.

But his favorite type of "flying" interfered with his pesky F-102 piloting duties and responsibilities at his Ellington AFB TANG unit outside of Houston.

[buycitgo]

7. you mean something along these lines?

"George Walker Bush is one member of the younger generation who doesn't get his kicks from pot or hashish or speed.... As far as kicks are concerned, Lt. Bush gets his from the roaring afterburner of the F-102."
Texas Air National Guard press release, March 1970

[Beetwasher]

8. Nobody's Going to By the "There's No Evidence, but I Served"

It just ain't plausible. He's fucked on this issue. He's praying it goes away and people forget.

[Karenina]

9. Lookee here...

When our dear Oneighty can provide documents attesting to a late return to base due to travel circumstances beyond his control in NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FUCKING FIFTY-TWO, what fair-minded person is gonna give a pass to a *powdered dauphin for a YEAR???? I ask you.

This one is NOT GOING AWAY!!!! :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: