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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (4347)	2/26/2004 10:38:48 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Respond to of 81568

Bush's service record takes comic twist February 27, 2004 The political and frequently irreverent Doonesbury comic strip is offering $US10,000 ($13,000) to anyone who can show US President George Bush served in the Air National Guard in Alabama. "That's right - we're offering $10,000 cash to anyone who can prove George W. Bush fulfilled his guard duty in Alabama," Wednesday's strip said. "So if you served with Mr Bush - even if only in the officers' club - we want to hear from you right now!" Readers are referred to the website doonesbury.com, where a Witness Registration Form asks for online testimony. The creator of Doonesbury, Garry Trudeau, is underwriting the prize money, the site says. "Thanks to Bush's massive tax cuts for people who don't need them, GBT is flush." The hitch is the winner will not actually receive the reward. Instead the site says the cash will be be donated in the winner's name to the United Service Organisation, which entertains US troops. The strip first offered the reward on Monday and already there were hundreds of responses, said David Stanford, duty officer at the online Doonesbury Town Hall. "We're only in day three and have already received witness forms from over 600 contestants, with more streaming in every hour," Mr Stanford said. "We'll be carefully processing all of them, but what's immediately striking is that so many who've plunged into the depths of their 1972 memories have surfaced with accounts that involve automobiles, alcohol, aliens, secret ops and Elvis." The White House had no comment on the contest. But Christine Iverson, of the Republican National Committee, said: "It sounds like a stunt worthy of a comic strip." Documents released earlier this month offered no new evidence to show that Mr Bush was present for National Guard duty in Alabama during the latter part of 1972, a period when the Democratic National Committee chairman, Terry McAuliffe, has accused him of being absent without leave. Reuters This story was found at: smh.com.au