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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (19038)	8/15/2004 1:08:59 PM
From: Land Shark	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

30 million+ Americans without medical insurance... That's terrorism at its worst. Far more Americans annually die from lack of good medical care, than those who died in the WTC 911 attack.

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (19038)	8/15/2004 1:15:41 PM
From: Doug R	Respond to of 173976

"I was not prepared to shoot my eardrum out with a shotgun in order to get a deferment. Nor was I willing to go to Canada. So I chose to better myself by learning how to fly airplanes." -- shrub...on why he joined the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam War, 1990. No explanation from him on why he went AWOL though. He lied about his military service in his autobiography. He claimed that he served out his term as a pilot in the Texas Air National Guard (TANG). This is a lie. He received a transfer to Alabama, at some point after April 1972, after which point the record becomes murky. B) The story of his "service" after April 1972 is summarized here by Walter V. Robinson of The Boston Globe: Although he was trained as a fighter pilot, Bush ceased flying in April 1972, little more than two years after he finished flight school and two years before his six-year enlistment was to end, when he was allowed to transfer to an Alabama Air Guard unit. The records contain no evidence that Bush performed any military duty in Alabama. His Alabama unit commander, in an interview, said Bush never appeared for duty. In August 1972, Bush was suspended from flight status for failing to take his annual flight physical. In May 1973, Bush's two superior officers in Houston wrote that they could not perform his annual evaluation, because he had "not been observed at this unit" during the preceding 12 months. The two officers, one of them a friend of Bush and both now dead, wrote that they believed Bush had been fulfilling his commitment at the Alabama unit. C) Bush has repeatedly promised to release all of his records (most recently in February on "Meet The Press"), and has never done so. The AP is currently seeking a court order to gain access to the Texas state records, which are being held in Austin. D) Paul Lukasiak has closely examined the documents which have been released, and makes the following claims: 1) "Points” records showing that for two straight years, Bush did not perform the training that was mandated by law, and which could not be excused by his superior officers. (See The Points Scam) 2) Payroll records showing that Bush requested and received pay and point credit for which he was ineligible under Air Force policy (See Fraud—The Secrets of Bush’s Payroll Records Revealed) 3) Documents related to Bush’s attempted transfer to the “9921st Air Reserve Squadron” showing that the request was an attempt by Bush to fraudulently escape his obligations as a member of the United States Armed Forces (See The Transfer Scam) 4) Documents showing that Bush’s superior officers attempted to cover up for Bush being “AWOL”, but eventually had to admit that they had lost track of Bush for an entire year. (See The Cover-up in Texas). 5) Documents showing that Bush intended to desert the Armed Forces with almost a year of his statutory six year participation requirement unfulfilled (See Discharge, or Desertion?) 6) Documents showing that the Air Force understood that Bush was a “deserter”, and had taken the steps necessary to deal with someone in Bush’s position who had abandoned their commitment to the US Government. (See Deserter: Bush After TXANG) [and...] 1) Bush’s personnel files were tampered with to disguise what had occurred. 2) The person upon whom the media has relied upon for its interpretation of Bush’s military records (an individual who was specifically engaged by the 2000 Bush campaign to “clear” Bush) was directly involved in providing Bush with favorable treatment as a member of the Texas Air National Guard, and 3) This person has lied about the nature of Bush’s records, and made claims regarding Bush’s obligations as a member of the United States Armed Forces that have absolutely no basis in fact.