Records Say Bush Balked at Order

National Guard Commander Suspended Him From Flying, Papers Show

Published on September 9, 2004 By blogic In Politics

President Bush failed to carry out a direct order from his superior in the Texas Air National Guard in May 1972 to undertake a medical examination that was necessary for him to remain a qualified pilot, according to documents made public yesterday.

According to "60 Minutes," [Bush's superior officer] Killian's personal files show that he ordered Bush "suspended from flight status" on Aug. 1, 1972. National Guard documents already released by the White House and the Pentagon show that Bush was suspended from flight status on that day for "failure to accomplish annual medical examination" but do not mention his alleged failure to comply with National Guard and Air Force standards.

In another "memo to file," dated Aug. 18, 1973, Killian complained that he was under pressure from his superior, Col. Walter B. "Buck" Staudt, to "sugar coat" Bush's officer evaluations. "I'm having trouble running interference and doing my job," he wrote in a memo titled "CYA." "I will not rate."

Bush disobeyed a direct order to get a medical exam. He's demonstrated the same contempt for the law as President as he showed while Guardsman.

Comments

ShoZan

on Sep 09, 2004

Damn right, it's good to see he is in the same boat a William J. Clinton, and we should hold them both accountable for that, oh wait we didn't on Bill Clinton, in fact we elected him two times, and just glared over that fact, hell we even gave him the credit for the Dot Com Bubble Economy, until it burst, but heck we still said he did a good job, but was handing over a lemon car to either Gore or Bush it didn't matter who, he got elected his second term so he didn't care what could they do to him. But hey we are supposed to not elect a man who was at least in the United States and National Guard, even if the service was questionable, and yet we elected a man who ran off to Canada, while his colleague went to war.

Still would like to know which is the lesser of two evils, a man who was National Guard and who service is questionable, or a man who served and came back, and with knowing better on what went on in Vietnam, lied to the United States Senate, condemning many US POWs and other returning Vietnam Vets to a world of hate, hmm, I wonder which is worse, hmmmm.

I want Bush to answer all the questions about his U.S. Service, telling us what happened in his years of the National Guard.
I want Kerry to answer and apologize to Vietnam Veterans on his going on the record to Defame and Slander Vietnam Veterans by saying they committed atrocities (good luck trying to find Kerry's book at MSRP).

If Bush comes out and answers than he has proven himself.
If Kerry comes out and answers than he has proven himself.

But both have yet to answer their thirty year old actions, proving that they are worthy candidates.

Gideon MacLeish

on Sep 09, 2004

and yet we elected a man who ran off to Canada, while his colleague went to war.

uhh, Clinton didn't "run off to Canada"...he accepted a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford.

Now, granted, his student deferment was questionable in light of the fact that the dems had heavily criticized Dan Quayle for the same things they are criticizing Bush for now...but let's not get carried away with exaggerations, shall we?

I still believe that the issue is irrelevant...on BOTH sides. Military service 30 years ago doesn't make Kerry a better candidate, and the questionable service 30 years ago doesn't make Bush a worse candidate; many of us have done stupid things at that age...

Let's get to the issues, shall we?

Daiwa

on Sep 09, 2004

Independent document examiner Sandra Ramsey Lines said the memos looked like they had been produced on a computer using Microsoft Word software, which wasn’t available when the documents were supposedly written in 1972 and 1973.

Lines, a document expert and fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, pointed to a superscript — a smaller, raised “th” in “111th Fighter Interceptor Squadron” — as evidence indicating forgery.

Microsoft Word automatically inserts superscripts in the same style as the two on the memos obtained by CBS, she said.

“I’m virtually certain these were computer-generated,” Lines said after reviewing copies of the documents at her office in Paradise Valley, Ariz. She produced a nearly identical document using her computer’s Microsoft Word software.

The above is from today's MSNBC.com article on this subject, and renders the whole thing moot.

Cheers,
Daiwa

Daiwa

on Sep 11, 2004

zzzzt... In memory of the immortal Ron Zeigler: "This Article is Inoperative." ...zzzzt

Cheers,
Daiwa

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