I have been studying george Bush's military record for years. Because the CBS papers are so inextricably tied to Bush's records, one must study and analyse Bush's military records to understand the part they play.
Because I had been studying Bush's records for over a year when the CBS Papers emerged, I knew their meaning and mesh in Bush's documents immediately and while the rest of the ccountry was staring intently at the fonts and spacing, I was looking at Bush's reaction to them. If forged, these papers LIBEL Bush! (And other USAF ANG officers!)
And neither George Bush NOR his aides EVER denied they were real. Did anybody but me notice that? Now why didn't Bush or his aides do that? That SHOULD have been their first reaction--if they thought the papers were forged. Bush and the Republicans WANT you to think theyre forged-but don't want to prove it
This and many other no-fonts issues will be the study of this series.
America needs to know the truth
(The CBS Papers:
http://www.usatoday.com/... ) Here's one of the first facts to consider: there has been NO federal investigation of these papers because ANY investigation will show all the falsifications done in Bush's paperwork, WHETHER THE CBS PAPERS ARE REAL OR NOT!! Bush and the Republicans CAN'T have thiss investigated, they can't have Bush's record see the light of day--the consequences are HUGE! I will prove every word of this in this series.
I have been urged to do a continuing series by another Kossack. The information contained here is extremely relevant to the discussion of why Republicans get to slime Democrats well earned medals while their man ( and I use the teem loosely) gets no scrutiny at all. Do you know that Bush's discharge proves in no uncertain terms that Bush was discharged completely stripped of all his qualifications and medals? (his discharge:
http://users.cis.net/... )
Did you ever hear that in the media? Think thats an accident? Think that doesn't tie in with the CBS Papers? We'll be covering this and many other unknown (or little known) facts in this series. This story goes way WAY beyond the fonts.
This will be a lengthy series because this is an extensive, multi layered story that has been confused and lied about by highly paid experts for decades. But its all a smoke screen, underneath the happy talk are some serious crimes committed, like fraud and falsification of documents.
I want to stay away from Fonts and spacing issues because I am no "fonts expert" and I bet neither are you. But there are people who's word is final on this: that is the Pentagon law enforcment agencies that have all the forensic capacity and investigative powers to prove or disprove these papers, but have never been called on to solve this. One of the facts we will cover is that this issue has never been resolved, although there are federal agencieswith the capacity and the duty to investigate and prosecute the wrongdoing concerning these papers.
These represent federal documents and it is the duty of the federal government to prove or disprove them. And they have evaded that duty (for the facts concerning their evasion of duty and the crimes committed see:
http://www.dailykos.com/... )
As background, I am an honorably discharged Army veteran of the Vietnam conflict (google: lrrp). And I am DAM tired of seeing Democrats medals get peed on by people who's "champion" has NO medals at all.
george Bush's military service ended in disgrace, suspended from his ONLY known job with 2 years left to serve, discharged stripped of all medals and qualifications, AS HIS DISCHARGE PLAINLY SHOWS. There is no topic on which Bush is more vulnerable than his military service, The Emperor never had less clothes than this.
If you think that this may be another case where Bush and Co may have been dishonest read on.
If youre one of the people that absolutely insist, dropdead sure that the papers are forged, you will still benefit by this series because there is ample evidence of crimes having been committed by Bush and his superiors, and thats whether the CBS Papers are real or not.
And if you insist that the papers are forged you should join me in demanding that there be an official investigation---something that Bush and republicans went to great lengths to avoid.
Because America needs to know the truth!
I'm going to start off with what America already knows: Bush gamed the system. ""Essentially, Bush gamed the system to avoid serving his country the way that most of his contemporaries had to,"according to Lawrence Korb, former ast sec of defence in the reagan Administration.
But what does this mean? This means, in essence, that Bush played tricks to get out with an honorable discharge.
But he wasn't the only one gamng the system: he had a lot of help---from his commanding officers.
And thats one of the things the CBS papers prove, if real. The last two of the sequence are intercommand memos describing a conspiraccy to alter Bush's doccuments, in which Killian confesses to altering Bush's documents: "...I will backdate but I won't rate..." Col Jerry Killian. Do you know that Killian is confessing to a crime here? And that the alteration is evident in the document he''s talking about? You didn't see that in the MSM either. We'll be covering that too (see the diary cited above)
When Bush and his superiors gamed the system, what is really meant is that they comitted crimes to cover Bush's dereliction of duty--his REFUSAL (explained later) to take his required physical-- to keep him listed as a pilot long after he had been suspended.
Anybody studying Bush's record MUST read the most thorough, comprehensive report on paperwork crimes eveident in Bush's military's service ever: http://www.nytimes.com/... This report was published by the NY Times after Bush released his military papers in Feb 2004 and then buried. Lechliter gives you the exact specifics of how Bush's superiors "gamed the system" for Bush, the exact details of it. There is ample evidence of crimes committed, the I's dotted and t's crossed, here but this was written before the emergence of the CBS Papers. I intend to focus on all that has happened since.
Lechliters report proves some of the the falsificationss in Bush's records, that I will cover as per their relationship to the CBS Papers. But he doesn't cover all of it. I intend to fill in the blanks, link the disparate facts.
When Bush released his military papers in feb 2004, his aides did it in a "document dump" just walked in and dumped them all in a big heap, in no order at all, completely scrambledd. Many were duplicates, many irrelevant, there was no narrative or explanation at all. Now why would someone do that to a record they say they were proud of? If youre proud of your record, you put it in an order people would understand and explain any discrepancies. This the Bush administration did NOT do. The only reason to dump a pile of documents in a scrambled mess is to confuse analysis, to mask what is there and smoke and mirror what isn't. that is no way to treat a record youre supposedly proud of but the media accepted it with no comment at all. Thats no accident either
I knew the minute they did this that they were trying to hide something and extensive reseach proved me right. they are trying to hide the most disgraceful military career off any president ever.
To understand the CBS Papers we must understand how Bush's superiors got him out with an honorable discharge when he should have been punished for refusing to take his physical.
The short version of the story is that they tried to disguise his failure to take his physicial by keeping him listed as a pilot untill he could get close enough to his discharge date when they could get him the "honorable discharge" with an "early out"
to do this they ccommitted crimes, like fraud and falsification of USAF documents. And thats what the CBS Papers illuminate.
Lets start with a dropdead basic fact that the media tried real hard to ignore, even CBS and Mary Mapes: Bush and his aides know right now whether the papers aare real or not, always have,yet they pretnd they don't.
There is no other man in the world with more direct knowledge of these papers than Bush! How can I say that so positively? Because theyre about HIM! In events in his career that DID happen, the circumstances of which he knows every detail of intimately. This all happened to BUSH although he pretends it doesn't. youre going to learn why he pretends it didn't
Look at the alleged order to take his physical: Bush HAD to know right away whether this was real or not--but only said he "didn't remember seeing them before." Bush HAS to know this because he knows FOR SURE if Killian ever ordered him to take the physical or not. Noobody else would know better!
yet when Bush wwas asked whether he had ever been ordered to take his physical HE REFUSED TO ANSWER!! And CBS let it slide:
CBS buried that information on thhe bottom of their article: http://www.cbsnews.com/... You have to look all the way down to the 2d to bottom line to find what should have been the headline: "...The White House did not answer whether Bush disobeyed a direct order to take the exam..." CBS publlished that sttory while thhey were in the middle of the heavist attack ever on an media outlet. You understand that CBS took a dive when you see that they had the answer to their probelems right in their own story: Bush refused to deny he had been ordered to take his physical and they were holding an order(still never refuted!) that hee did.All they had to do was demand he ansswer that simeple question. And instead they buried it in their story where no one would see it.
And the White House has NEVER answered answered that question--because the true answer to that question==that it happened--puts Bush in BIG trouble--and his surviving superiors also. It means that his version of his service was aa complete lie---thhat he SHOULD have been punished for his refusal to take his physical--but was not.
If Bush was ordred to take his physical, then this is most probably the order. And Bush knew it the minute he looked at it.
if Bush was officially ordered to take his physical and refused, thats a military crime! And he should have been punished for it!!Why would Bush refuse to answer that question--if the answer was no??
And why did CBS never demand an answer to that simple question, which all Americans should know about their president?? if he disobeyed a direct order??
I'm hoping to engender an ongoing discussion primarily about Bush's records and how they relate to the CBS papers. About all the falsifications involved. About the crimes committed here.
I'm doing this because this information has the potential to make Bush's remaining years very very difficult. And it should the chickenshit sonofabitch watched all those CBS people get their careers tanked having a Merry Christmas with a huge laugh with Karl Rove about it. Bush paays people to slander other peoples well earned medals WHILE HE HAS NONE AT ALL!! And no one ever gives his record aa look.
I will be covering this whole twisted story almost daily. there is no more fertile ground for investigative blogging. I urge consructive questions and crticism here
Don't waste your time snarking me, go work on whatever YOU think will bring Bush down--hows the Downing Street Memo situation going, anyway?