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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (31739)	2/26/2004 9:00:50 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793597

Now since Bush didn't get covered last time and he is running against a Viet Nam hero Ahem. Methinks the gentleman doth protest too much. And I'm not referring to President Bush. John Kerry spent the 70s as Jane Fonda, and now he wants to run as John Wayne (the line is not original, but a good one). Karl Rove has not yet begun to explore Kerry's Jane Fonda problem. When he does, I think Senator Kerry will wish he had shut up about Bush's National Guard days now, and saved the stuff for later. Even so, it's pretty weak gruel. What's the maximum wrong-doing alleged? That Bush didn't show up for a few National Guard drills when he should have, and they let him slide by anyway? Try as they might, the WaPo and the NYT are not going to be able to make a Federal case out of that. The same American people who said that the Monica thing was not worth impeaching a president over will look at this and say, Oh puh-lease. But we will certainly see some of Kerry's juicier baby-killer remarks from 1971 recycled. We'll see how they play.

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (31739)	2/27/2004 10:21:57 AM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793597

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. <font size=4> Bush dismisses report he skipped Air National Guard service By Kevin Flower/CNN May 24, 2000<font size=3> cnn.com <font size=4>November 3, 2000 MILITARY SERVICE Bush's Guard Attendance Is Questioned and Defended By JO THOMAS Source: New York Times<font size=3> nytimes.com <font size=4> 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 <font size=4> Wayne Slater "Records of Bush's Ala. Military Service Can't Be Found," Dallas Morning News 26 June 2000:<font size=3> washingtonpost.com <font size=4> 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> factcheck.org <font size=4> The Associated Press "Friends from Alabama days back Bush's military claims," Houston Chronicle 5 July 2000<font size=3> <font size=4> 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. factcheck.org