Nbadan
09-09-2004, 01:28 PM
I told ya that this topic would come back and haunt W. again...
New holes in Bush military record
BY THOMAS M. DeFRANK, JAMES GORDON MEEK and CORKY SIEMASZKO
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
In 1968, Papa Bush pinned lieutenant bars on his son, who suited up to fly for the Air National Guard
The Bush campaign was rocked yesterday by allegations that the Top Gun President was a substandard pilot who disobeyed a direct order while serving in the Texas Air National Guard.
President Bush's commanding officer complained of being pressured to "sugarcoat" Bush's review despite his "failure to perform" to Guard standards and that Bush "made no attempt" to maintain his flight status.
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N.Y. Daily News (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/story/230239p-197749c.html)
Also,
The ABCNote asks re Bush AWOL:
Did Lt. Col. Killian really backdate a report at the request or behest of superior officers? Was this not illegal?
Did Bush himself talk "to someone upstairs" to grease his own path?
Did Bush really ask to get out of the National Guard drill?
Does he remember doing that today?
Were such requests made regularly by members of the Guard?
Did General Walter Staudt, Bush's political patron in the Guard, decide on his own to persuade his commanders to be favorably disposed toward Bush?
Or was he pressured by outside forces?
Why was a flight review board not appointed in August of 1972 pursuant to Killian's orders?
How, if Killian said that Bush lost his flight status because of performance, can one account for the glowing performance reviews Bush got that same month?
Why did Mr. Bush not attend his physical as ordered in May of 1972? Was it because he didn't have to as he already knew he wouldn't fly, or perhaps that he did attend — and something came up? Did he ever get a physical in Alabama? Houston? Why has the White House changed its spin on this?
Was Bush a good pilot? A bad pilot? (Or, as the White House asserts, a pilot who crossed the thresholds he needed to cross?)
With all these problems, why was Bush's transfer request to the 187th TAC Recon group approved in September of 1972?
Was it the result of his conversations with Killian? Because of Staudt's influence? Or simply par the course for back then? What other documents will come to light?
(The Air Force acknowledges that the state of record-keeping back then ensures that new ones will be found on a regular basis in different boxes in different warehouses. White House says they are trying to get all of his records released but have not gotton around to signing form that OK's the release of all records. )
ABC's Terry Moran's report today: Lt. Col. Jerry Killian wrote in one memo that "I'll back-date, but won't rate," a statement that "raises the possibility that Bush's military records were falsified."
ABC News (http://abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/TheNote/TheNote.html)
New holes in Bush military record
BY THOMAS M. DeFRANK, JAMES GORDON MEEK and CORKY SIEMASZKO
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
In 1968, Papa Bush pinned lieutenant bars on his son, who suited up to fly for the Air National Guard
The Bush campaign was rocked yesterday by allegations that the Top Gun President was a substandard pilot who disobeyed a direct order while serving in the Texas Air National Guard.
President Bush's commanding officer complained of being pressured to "sugarcoat" Bush's review despite his "failure to perform" to Guard standards and that Bush "made no attempt" to maintain his flight status.
<snip>
N.Y. Daily News (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/story/230239p-197749c.html)
Also,
The ABCNote asks re Bush AWOL:
Did Lt. Col. Killian really backdate a report at the request or behest of superior officers? Was this not illegal?
Did Bush himself talk "to someone upstairs" to grease his own path?
Did Bush really ask to get out of the National Guard drill?
Does he remember doing that today?
Were such requests made regularly by members of the Guard?
Did General Walter Staudt, Bush's political patron in the Guard, decide on his own to persuade his commanders to be favorably disposed toward Bush?
Or was he pressured by outside forces?
Why was a flight review board not appointed in August of 1972 pursuant to Killian's orders?
How, if Killian said that Bush lost his flight status because of performance, can one account for the glowing performance reviews Bush got that same month?
Why did Mr. Bush not attend his physical as ordered in May of 1972? Was it because he didn't have to as he already knew he wouldn't fly, or perhaps that he did attend — and something came up? Did he ever get a physical in Alabama? Houston? Why has the White House changed its spin on this?
Was Bush a good pilot? A bad pilot? (Or, as the White House asserts, a pilot who crossed the thresholds he needed to cross?)
With all these problems, why was Bush's transfer request to the 187th TAC Recon group approved in September of 1972?
Was it the result of his conversations with Killian? Because of Staudt's influence? Or simply par the course for back then? What other documents will come to light?
(The Air Force acknowledges that the state of record-keeping back then ensures that new ones will be found on a regular basis in different boxes in different warehouses. White House says they are trying to get all of his records released but have not gotton around to signing form that OK's the release of all records. )
ABC's Terry Moran's report today: Lt. Col. Jerry Killian wrote in one memo that "I'll back-date, but won't rate," a statement that "raises the possibility that Bush's military records were falsified."
ABC News (http://abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/TheNote/TheNote.html)