The Media Masking of a Deserter

[Joanne98]

http://www.mediachannel.org/views/dissector/affalert226.shtml


The Media Masking of a 'Deserter'

By Ian Williams
MediaChannel.org

NEW YORK, July 13, 2004 - George W. Bush loves dressing up in uniform and being called commander-in-chief. You have to look to Saddam or Fidel for another head of state who spends as much media time before military backdrops.

He won't do town halls or even many press conferences, but something like a third of his statements in the previous 18 months have been delivered on military bases or to veterans' groups.

This would be bad enough, but the media is letting him get away with rank hypocrisy and worse.

He is abusing the military as movie extras, as well as car bomb-fodder in a PR campaign designed to show the American public that they need him, big tough W, to protect them from terrorists.

Peter Jennings' outrage over Michael Moore's use of the phrase "deserter" to describe a president who disappeared during his National Guard service is evidence that the charade is working.

It's an outrage that George W. Bush who went AWOL during a time of war continues to be allowed, by the US cooperate media, a free pass on this important story. The fact the George W. Bush deserted from "the Champagne Unit" after getting illegally installed by his father and jumping ahead in line in front of 200 applicants is a slap in the face to all the troops serving in Iraq. They deserve to be told the truth. George W. Bush deserted during a time of war. Which means he's asking them to do something he would NEVER do.

[Joanne98]

1. OOPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Friday, July 09, 2004
Oops, Bush’s crucial military records were destroyed
How convenient! It only took the Pentagon four years to come up with this tale, claiming George W.’s crucial Texas Air National Guard payroll records were destroyed, allegedly with those of “numerous other service members,” during an operation “to salvage deteriorating microfilm.”

"Destroyed" in 1996 and 1997, yet. Even more convenient, considering he obtained a new Texas driver's license in 1995. A tidying up operation in preparation for a run for the White House?

In a letter signed by C. Y. Talbott, chief of the Pentagon's Freedom of Information Office, that accompanied a CD-ROM of Bush’s records that had already been released, Talbott said, “Searches for backup paper copies of the missing records were unsuccessful.” Some 60 pages of Bush’s medical files and other records were also withheld on privacy grounds.

How interesting that the records “destroyed” were only for the first quarter of 1969 and the third quarter of 1972. The question of whether Bush was paid for these quarters, which would prove whether he fulfilled his obligation or deserted, could be cleared up from his income tax returns for 1969 and 1972. Yes, people in the military have to file tax returns. It’s doubtful that the dog that ate the microfilm is still around.

[ClassWarrior]

4. Cap has a theory that the records may still exist...

...on computer back-up tapes. Look for his thread in the archives.

[Joanne98]

5. Thanks.

[ClassWarrior]

6. You betcha.

We need to get the press to look into this...

[Joanne98]

2. Something the troops need to know

http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/071304Nichols/071304nichols.html

13, 2004—As a writer I do not have a set of words to describe what 142 degrees in the shade is like. I've seen 120 degrees in Phoenix and 110 degrees in the spa's sauna I use. One hundred forty-two degrees leaves me speechless. Try to imagine 142 D temperature while wearing a helmet, long sleeve shirt, long pants, a bulletproof vest, boots, and carrying a 70-pound pack.

By contrast the Inuit of Alaska and Canada are said to have 37 words to precisely talk about different kinds of snow.

So, since the temperature is heating up in Iraq it seemed like a good time to float this story to different Internet sites and news publications. There was one story in 2003 of a 19-year old British soldier whose military job was to work in a British tank. In Iraq. In the summer. Word is, from London, that he forgot to drink enough water and he literally cooked in his tank.

But, this story is not about the temperature in Iraq. You can bet, though, the weather will be really important for those Americans unfortunate enough to still be in Iraq this summer.

This story is about American weapons built with depleted uranium components for the business end of things. Just about all American bullets, tank shells, missiles, dumb bombs, smart bombs, 500 and 2,000-pound bombs, cruise missiles, and anything else engineered to help our side in the war of us against them has depleted uranium in it. Lots of depleted uranium.

In the case of a cruise missile, as much as 800 pounds of the stuff. This article is about how much radioactive depleted uranium our guys, representing us, the citizens of the United States, let fly in Iraq. Turns out they used about 4,000,000 pounds of the stuff, give or take, according to the Pentagon and the United Nations. That is a bunch.

That the DESERTER won't tell them.

[TruthIsAll]

7. The HIGHEST temp EVER recorded was 136 degrees - in Libya.

Iraq gets VERY hot (like 115-120) but not THAT hot (142).

Just a bit of nit-picking trivia from a former weather freak.

[Joanne98]

8. Sorry it was onlinejournal

They usually get things right. the troops do need to know how DU there is in Iraq. I heard when they ask to get tested for it the VA tells them no.

[Joanne98]

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