Although I keep trying to steer the Project towards the media aspects of this story, I am sometimes pulled aside and suggestions are made. But I will return, Ive got new stuff on the connection to the Swiftboat people. Do you know that if you say that the documents are forged, youre saying what the same people who put out the Swifboat garbage were paid to make you think? Think about it! This is REAL interesting stuff to look at.
I have been asked to do a timeline of the events. This is sorta like doing a timeline of the republican Party for the last 40 years--there's a lot of stuff. A Constant Reader is editing it and I will start displaying it ASAP, within the next 2 BMHPs, hopefully Monday. (My Constant Readers will know its lengthy) Its lengthy but comprehensive, with links to all the documents, Bush's and CBS's, every one of them.. This timeline will only cover Bush's last 2 years in the TXANG but the story continues long after, up to this very day, because the part about Bush's papers is only the first part of this story. Like every other good political scandal, its about the coverup. That is part of the BMHP's continuing study
Paul Lukasiak has already given us the timeline by putting the documents in both chronological and alphabetical order at: http://www.glcq.com/... What I'm going to give you is a narrative that explains the Paper trail and shows the mesh of the CBS memos and Bush's posted documents. Its best if you print out the documents referred to and put them in chronological order--makes it easy to follow along.
I need to explain the context these documents came from.
Studying Bush's bio's, we see that1972-73-74 was part of the Wasted Days and Wasted Nights period of George Bush's life. I mean the first part of the first decade of it: it went on quite a while ( and may still be going on.) His bios show that he was in the throes (cool word!) of substance abuse all this time. December 1972 was the famous confrontation with his dad when he challenged Bush Sr to go mano a mano with him after driving home drunk dragging a trashcan, after riding around with his 16 year old brother till all hours(Jr was 26.)
This is when he is alleged to have been doing Cocaine.--the alleged "community service" he did with PUSH was in the Spring of '73. George Bush was getting too hot to handle in Houston--this is the reason he bailed and went to Harvard Business School. (which, with a mediocre GPA in History, he also needed help to get into. His family wanted him out of Dodge.)
So start with knowing that GWB was definitely into getting "good and good" during this period and was raising cain. This explains his refusal to take his physical--fear of what would be revealed. There really is no other explanation of it and its worth noting that this was the year that TXANG first started taking mandatory drug tests.
The fact that he couldn't take his physical is extremely significant because it explains what subsequently happened. When Bush told his superiors he was not going to take his physical, instead of convening a Fight review Board and disciplining him, they immediately tried to transfer him out of their unit while still keeping him listed as a pilot
Ive given you the website--start studying how Bush's career went South in Spring '72. Up till that time he had been doing wonderfully (according to the documents) after that he starts falling apart. The best way to illustrate this is to look at his OETRs in order:
http://www.glcq.com/...(71-05-26)oetr_1971.pdf
http://www.glcq.com/...(72-05-26)oetr_1972.pdf
http://www.glcq.com/...(73-05-02)oetr_not_observed.pdf
The first one: Wonderful Wonderful Wonderful!! Why is he not wearing a halo? (how far up a Lt's ass can a Major and a Lt Col stick their noses? >Retch<)
The 2d: Kinda wonderful but not so much
The 3d: We deny he was even here. And neither Killian or Harris signed it like they'd signed the previous two. There's no confirmation from Hodges either. Almost every word on here is false: his job, what he did, the date he left, the lie that he had't been seen since May 15th. No wonder no one wanted to sign it.
This is a picture of a young pilot spiraling down out of control.(pun intended) especially when all the other documents are taken into account.
So that's the context in which this all happened and it must be taken into account when figuring this story. This story goes WAY outside Bush's documents.
People ask me why I concentrate on the last 2 years of Bush's military career and not the corruption that got him into the TXANG ( a History grad with a mediocre GPA and a 2 item arrest record, but a Congressman's son)) That stuff is true but it mostly amounts to he said-he said. If anybody else can find a prosecutable case in that please do so. But the other end is where I found all the crimes. That's why all the emphasis is on how Bush got out of the service.
I say again, And I will prove, that the reason there has been no investigation lof the CBS papers is that iit will lead to all the frtaud and chicanery easily visible in Bush's document. ANY official investigation will uncover it.
One of the things that really needs to be remembered is that the only SWORN testimony in this whole story is Ben Barnes Deposition where he copped to getting Bush into the TXANG and Bill Burkett's testimony in his suit against the Guard (see: http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/... ) where he claims to have witnessed cleansing of Bush's documents by Joe Albaugh and Gen Danny James. Other than that, everything else in this story is unsworn testimony
So new and Constant Readers, get set for the timeline as soon as it gets back from the editor (Monday, I hope) Its so long it will be multi parts . Until then, do all you can to get our country back,