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To: Sully- who wrote (31845)2/27/2004 5:25:09 PM
From: J_F_Shepard  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 793600
 
Where's the link to the Houston Chronicle that says Bush Alabama friends back his military claims...? Seems to me they can't be found anymore except for one guy whose story didn't wash..... Here's the latest on the subject from today's Times...

nytimes.com

" OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR
In Search of the President's Missing Years
By MIMI SWARTZ

Published: February 27, 2004



Over the past few weeks, President Bush has responded to recurring questions about his National Guard service by saying that the subject is old and tiresome. According to Mr. Bush, reporters conducted a thorough investigation of his time in the Texas National Guard when he ran against Ann Richards for governor in 1994, and again when he ran against Al Gore in 2000. The complete Guard records, the president told Tim Russert on "Meet the Press," were "scoured."

This came as news to me, as I lived in and reported from Texas during those times and feel that questions about the story — Mr. Bush's life story — linger 10 years after his first political victory. Why they linger is a more complicated question, one that has as much to do with the press as it does with the president. "