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To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (1988)	2/12/2004 12:26:19 PM
From: Skywatcher	Respond to of 173976

BUSH BACKING DOWN FROM THE TRUTH ONCE AGAIN! how can it POSSIBLY be true that NO ONE from that entire TIME CAN REMEMBER SEEING THE NOW PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES>>>>>>NOT POSSIBLE! Bush aides retreat on pledge to release his whole Guard file By MIKE ALLEN Washington Post WASHINGTON -- The White House Wednesday night released a document showing that President Bush appeared at a military base in Alabama during the last year of his National Guard service, but aides backed away from his weekend pledge to release all his military records. Bush's staff provided copies of a one-page record of a dental exam, complete with drawings of the president's teeth, that showed he was at Dannelly Air National Guard base in Montgomery, Ala., on Jan. 6, 1973. The document is the first definitive evidence that Bush showed up at a base of the Alabama National Guard during a period of about 11 months, from May 1972 to May 1973, for which it was unclear how the president had fulfilled his military service. Earlier this week, the White House released records showing Bush had been paid for days of service during that period, including the date of the dental exam. But the records did not say where Bush had been. The White House released the records this week in an effort to end a controversy that has put White House aides on the defensive amid Democratic accusations that Bush shirked his duty. Administration officials refused Wednesday to commit to releasing further records, despite a statement by Bush on NBC's Meet the Press that he would open his entire military file. With the administration growing increasingly defensive, White House spokesman Scott McClellan criticized Democrats and others who were asking new questions. "I think what you are seeing is gutter politics," he said. "The American people deserve better. There are some who are not interested in their facts. They are simply trolling for trash." Bush enlisted in the Texas Air National Guard in 1968, at the height of the Vietnam War, and became a first lieutenant and an F-102 fighter pilot before leaving in 1973 to attend Harvard Business School. Bush has said that during the disputed period in 1972 and 1973, he performed temporary duty in Montgomery while he was working on a U.S. Senate campaign. His records for that period have indicated that he no longer took military physicals and was suspended from flying. Administration officials confirmed Wednesday that the Department of Defense is in the process of pulling together all of the president's payroll, personnel and medical records from the National Guard to centralize his file. This would include files from the Air Reserve Personnel Center in St. Louis and Denver, as well as financial records from Defense Financing Accounting Service in Denver. Communications director Dan Bartlett said the White House expects much in the file to already be in the public domain, but added that anything new concerning Bush's attendance in Alabama would be released. But Bartlett -- like McClellan -- was emphatic that the White House had no immediate plans to open Bush's entire file, which would include his Guard medical records. "These are attempts to troll for personal records for partisan advantage. We're not going to play," Bartlett said. "The goal post is being moved." More indications emerged Wednesday that some details of Bush's service may never be known. Lt. Col. Robert Horton, a spokesman for the Alabama National Guard, said Wednesday that no records exist in Alabama that would confirm Bush's temporary duty in Montgomery in 1972. According to Horton, there are no requirements to maintain records for a unit member who is on temporary assignment. "He was never officially assigned to the Alabama Guard, he never showed up on any rosters, and the Alabama Guard does not issue him his pay," Horton said. Horton said that a "certificate of training" would have been sent back to Houston -- where Bush was assigned -- so the Texas Air National Guard could keep a record of the points Bush received for his drills in Alabama and pay him accordingly.