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   From: garbaman@hotmoil.com   
      
   Here:   
      
   What we got under 4 years of Republicans in control:   
      
   A clown with RECORD days out of office/gone fishin' in 6-mo period before   
   9/11   
   9/11 with RECORD number of Americans killed in a single hit on American soil   
   RECORD deficit from a RECORD surplus   
   RECORD job losses   
   RECORD gas prices in the past 15 years   
   RECORD number of Americans killed in a foreign war since Vietnam   
   RECORD number of Americans being beheaded - on video!   
   Worst flu vaccine crisis on the RECORD   
   The Abu Ghraib scandal   
   RECORD number of Arabs hating US   
   RECORD number of allies who sit on the fence until the bozo is replaced   
   200 BILLIONS WASTED in Iraq   
   RECORD tax cuts for corporations and wealthy   
   RECORD prices for drugs and health care   
   RECORD number of jobs moved overseas   
      
   Well, I have to go to bed so I will stop here ...to be continued tomorrow ..   
   ..it is MUCH TOO MUCH!   
      
      
      
   "Harry Hope"  wrote in message   
   news:8m4v80lpdmm3re591habs3eu2pd1fj6jcc@4ax.com...   
   >   
   > KEY UNANSWERED QUESTIONS: Bush's Record In The National Guard   
   >   
   > "If George Bush wants to ask me questions about that through his   
   > surrogates, he owes America an explanation about whether or not he   
   > showed up for duty in the National Guard. Prove it. That's what we   
   > ought to have. I'm not going to stand around and let them play games."   
   >   
   > -- John Kerry, NBC News, 4/26/04   
   >   
   >   
   > * Bush Has Said He Used No Special Treatment To Get Into The Guard.   
   > How Does He Explain The Fact That He Jumped Ahead Of 150 Applicants   
   > Despite Low Pilot Aptitude Scores?   
   >   
   >   
   > * Col. Albert Lloyd Said A Report >From Alabama To Ellington Should   
   > Have Been Filed. Where Is That Report?   
   >   
   >   
   > * Why Did Bush Miss His Medical Exam In 1972?   
   >   
   >   
   > * Where Are The Complete Results Of The Required Investigation Into   
   > Bush's Absence From The Exam?   
   >   
   >   
   > * Why Did Bush Specifically Request To NOT Be Sent Overseas For Duty?   
   >   
   >   
   > * Why Does The White House Say Bush Was On Base When Bush's Superiors   
   > Had Filed A Report Saying He Was Gone For A Whole Year?   
   >   
   >   
   > * Why Is The Pentagon Under Orders To Not Discuss Bush's Record With   
   > Reporters?   
   >   
   >   
   > * Where Are Bush's Flight Logs?   
   >   
   >   
   > * Why Hasn't Bush Himself Demonstrated That He Showed Up For Service   
   > in Alabama?   
   >   
   > Bush Has Said He Used No Special Treatment To Get Into The Guard. How   
   > Does He Explain The Fact That He Jumped Ahead Of 150 Applicants   
   > Despite Low Pilot Aptitude Scores?   
   >   
   >   
   > "There was no special treatment."   
   >   
   > --Then-Gov. George W. Bush [Dallas Morning News, 7/4/99]   
   >   
   >   
   > FACT:   
   >   
   > With Family Connection, Bush Got Coveted Slot in Texas Guard Shortly   
   > After Graduating from College.   
   >   
   > A family friend of Bush's father pulled strings to secure Bush's spot;   
   > Bush joined the Texas Air National Guard after his student deferment   
   > ran out when he graduated from Yale in 1968.   
   >   
   > Before he graduated, Bush personally visited Col. Walter "Buck" Staudt   
   > -- the commander of the Texas Air National Guard -- to talk about the   
   > Guard.   
   >   
   > After Bush met with Staudt, he applied and was quickly accepted --   
   > despite a waiting list of over 150 applicants.   
   >   
   > Staudt recommended Bush for a direct appointment, which allowed Bush   
   > to become a second lieutenant right out of basic training without   
   > having to go though officer candidate school.   
   >   
   > The direct appointment also cleared the way for a position in pilot   
   > training school.   
   >   
   > [New York Times, 9/27/99; Houston Chronicle, 10/10/92; Los Angeles   
   > Times, 7/4/99]   
   >   
   >   
   > FACT:   
   >   
   > Bush Scored in 25th Percentile on Pilot Aptitude Test.   
   >   
   > When Bush applied for the Guard, his score on the Air Force pilot   
   > aptitude section, one of five on the test, was in the 25th percentile,   
   > the lowest allowed for would-be fliers.   
   >   
   > [Dallas Morning News, 7/4/99]   
   >   
   > FACT:   
   >   
   > No Shortage of Pilots in Texas Guard.   
   >   
   > Although a Bush spokesman claimed Bush was fast-tracked because the   
   > Guard needed pilots, Charles C. Shoemake, a chief of personnel in the   
   > Texas Guard from 1972 to 1980 remembered no such shortage.   
   >   
   > "We had so many people coming in who were super-qualified," Shoemake   
   > said Texas Guard Historian Tom Hail said there was no apparent need to   
   > fast-track applicants.   
   >   
   > "I've never heard of that," he said.   
   >   
   > "Generally they did that for doctors only, mostly because we needed   
   > extra flight surgeons."   
   >   
   > [Los Angeles Times, 7/4/99]   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   > Col. Albert Lloyd Said A Report From Alabama To Ellington Should Have   
   > Been Filed.   
   >   
   > Where Is That Report?   
   >   
   > FACT:   
   >   
   > Col. Lloyd: Guard Records Should Include Evidence Of Alabama Service.   
   >   
   > Lloyd also said he did not know whether Bush performed duty in   
   > Alabama.   
   >   
   > "If he did, his drill attendance should have been certified and sent   
   > to Ellington, and there would have been a record."   
   >   
   > [Boston Globe, 5/23/00; AP, 6/24/00]   
   >   
   >   
   > FACT:   
   >   
   > White House's Own Expert Said Bush Should Have Done More.   
   >   
   > According to the Globe, "the White House included with the documents a   
   > memorandum from a Texas Air National Guard personnel specialist   
   > stating that the documents prove that Bush had a 'satisfactory year'   
   > for 'retirement/retention' purposes between May 27, 1972, and May 26,   
   > 1973. But that specialist, retired Lieutenant Colonel Albert C. Lloyd   
   > Jr., acknowledged in an interview last night that he evaluated Bush   
   > using the lower of two measures for rating Guard service. Guardsmen,   
   > he said, needed to serve more days to meet minimum-training   
   > requirements than to meet the lower threshold to receive retirement   
   > credit for the year. 'Should he have done more? Yes, he should have,'   
   > Lloyd said of Bush, who was a fighter-interceptor pilot. 'Did he have   
   > to? No.'"   
   >   
   > [Boston Globe, 2/11/04]   
   >   
   >   
   > Why Did Bush Miss His Medical Exam In 1972?   
   >   
   >   
   > FACT:   
   >   
   > Bush Was Suspended From Flight Duty For Failing To Take Mandated   
   > Medical Exam.   
   >   
   > On September 29, 1972, Bush was officially suspended from flying for   
   > missing his annual medical examination.   
   >   
   > The orders note that Bush's suspension is authorized under the   
   > guidelines presented in Air Force Manual 35-12 Para 2-29m, which reads   
   > that Bush's local commander "will direct an investigation as to why   
   > the individual failed to accomplish the medical examination."   
   >   
   > [Aeronautical Orders, Number 87, 29 Sept 72; AFM 35-13, Para 2-29m]   
   >   
   >   
      
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