Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

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

To: American Spirit who wrote (62975)	6/12/2005 6:10:12 PM
From: Dan B.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

If he didn't report for duty, why did Texas pay him? You've just stated "that's AWOL" when just earlier you said that's not "technically AWOL." Do you even know what it is you believe? The General Turnipseed says he wouldn't have known if Bush was there or not. Despite the reporting of this Robinson fellow, Turnipseed has very different things to say, in all actuality. Here's some reality for you. Bush was NOT required to report to Alabama at all, let alone to the General upon arrival, as I recall you've incorrectly stated. Take it from the General and the Texas Air National Guard, as follows: "Walter Robinson, the only Pulitzer Prize winning reporter to ever be successfully sued for libel, cited retired Brigadier General William Turnipseed of the Alabama Air National Guard as his source. But in an interview General Turnipseed stated that Robinson's reporting of their conversation was either distorted or based upon his misunderstanding of how the military functioned at the time of Bush's Guard service. For Bush to be "AWOL" or "Away Without Leave" he had to have been assigned to a unit and under its command. If Bush was not under Turnipseed's command whatever he might have said to Robinson has no more authority than the opinions of any other Alabama National Guardsman that might have served with Bush at the time. Turnipseed states that Bush was never ordered to report to the Alabama Air National Guard. Turnipseed points out that Bush never transferred from the Texas Air National Guard to the Alabama Air National Guard. He remained in the Texas Air National Guard during his stay in Alabama. This was confirmed by the Texas National Guard. And Turnipseed added that Bush was never under his command or any other officer in the Alabama Air National Guard. Turnipseed added that Bush was simply informed of the drill schedule of the Alabama Air National Guard as a courtesy so that he could get credit for drills while in Alabama for his service record in the Texas Guard. There was no compulsory attendance and it was customary for visiting members of other state Air National Guard units to attend drills at his unit to accumulate drill credit towards the completion of their six year service requirement in effect at the time. That would reduce the number of makeup drills they would have to attend when they returned to their home unit. This was also confirmed by the Texas National Guard." jewishworldreview.com Did you see the "there was no compulsory attendance part?" Will you realize that biased folks have you hood-winked to the point that you waffle as to whether you think Bush was truly AWOL or not AWOL, from one post to the next, and like those who you are reading, you are notably losing any clear logic to back-up your exclamations of "truths," which just aren't. Dan B.