FINALLY Bush's AWOL stories are catching fire around the world. For the first time I heard a BBC news anchor discuss this on News24 (BBC's rolling news service in the UK).
During a 2-way with a journalist the anchor opined that if Bush was 'working on a political campaign then he can't have been serving in the National Guard can he?'. Simply put.
NY Times Op-Ed:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/11/opinion/11WED1.html
"The payroll records released yesterday document that he performed no guard duties at all for more than half a year in 1972 and raise questions about how he could be credited with at least 14 days of duty during subsequent periods when his superior officers in two units said they had not seen him."
"The payroll records show that he was paid for many days of duty in the first four months of 1972, when he was in Texas, but then went more than six months without being paid, virtually the entire time he was working on the Senate campaign in Alabama. That presumably means he never reported for duty during that period."
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Bush's Vietnam records released:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3477833.stm
"He [Bush] spent much of 1972 helping with a political campaign in Alabama."
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Bush's National Guard Pay Records Are Released:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/11/politics/11BUSH.html?hp
"The records show that Mr. Bush did not report for service from mid-April to late October, 1972, a period when he was working as the campaign manager for Winton Blount, a Republican Senate candidate in Alabama and a friend of his father."
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Bush Releases National Guard Files:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/06/politics/main591781.shtml
"His Alabama unit commander says Mr. Bush did not show up for duty. In September 1972, Mr. Bush was disciplined for missing an annual physical: He was grounded.
Another question is why he was allowed to end Guard duty about six months early to attend Harvard Business School. Mr. Bush said on NBC that he had "worked it out with the military. And I'm just telling you, I did my duty.""
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White House releases Bush's military payroll records:
http://us.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/02/10/elec04.prez.bush.military/index.html
"But under questioning from reporters, McClellan said the records do not specifically show that Bush reported for Guard duty in Alabama, where he spent much of 1972 working on a Senate campaign. And he said the White House has been unable to locate anyone who remembers serving with Bush during that period."
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