You insist on revisionist history. The Boston Globe broke
the baseless Bush AWOL story that was later covered by
many major media outlets, if only briefly because some
journalists covered the story & found evidence that there
was indeed no story.
I never read the Globe back then & I recall watching
coverage of it on the news & reading it in the papers. It
just didn't get much traction back then because Kerry,
McAulliffe & Michael Moore didn't jump all over it with
more lies & distortions back then as they have this time
around.
Clinton's draft dodging was treated by the major media
exactly like they are now treating Kerry's anti-war
efforts; On the rare occasion they mention it, they treat
it like it is a Republican smear campaign, with little or
no mention of what actually occurred.
You act like most of us weren't around or paying attention
when this happened. The liberal media was been spinning &
dsitorting reality back then & they've only gotten worse
since then.
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Bush dismisses report he skipped Air National Guard service
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cnn.com
<font size=4>November 3, 2000
MILITARY SERVICE
Bush's Guard Attendance Is Questioned and Defended
By JO THOMAS
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nytimes.com
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In 2000, The Associated Press reviewed nearly 200 pages of Bush's military records released by the National Guard Bureau in Arlington, Va.<font size=3>
apnews.myway.com
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Wayne Slater "Records of Bush's Ala. Military Service Can't Be Found," Dallas Morning News 26 June 2000:<font size=3>
washingtonpost.com
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George Lardner Jr.; Howard Kurtz “2 Democrats: Bush Let Guard Down; Gore Surrogates Revive Issue of Apparent Laxity in Candidate's Military Service,” The Washington Post 3 Nov. 2000 <font size=3>
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The Associated Press "Friends from Alabama days back Bush's military claims," Houston Chronicle 5 July 2000<font size=3>
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The New Republic Says GW Bush went AWOL...Part One
TNR pg18: OCTOBER 16, 2000<font size=3>
awolbush.com
George Magazine reported in October of 2000:
It's time to set the record straight . . . . Bush may have received favorable treatment to get into the Guard, served irregularly after the spring of 1972 and got an expedited discharge, but he did accumulate the days of service required of him for his ultimate honorable discharge.
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