CNN breaking: 4 more AWOL documents coming in a few minutes

Mods: I'll change the head and put a link as soon as they get it out.

Looks like a Friday night dump.

In addition to the letter from Bush's father, the latest documents contain news releases that the Texas Air National Guard sent to Houston newspapers in 1970 about young Bush, then a second lieutenant and new pilot. "George Bush is one member of the younger generation who doesn't get his kicks from pot or hashish or speed," the news release said. "Oh, he gets high, all right, but not from narcotics."

Three decades later, a new book by Kitty Kelley has alleged that Bush used cocaine while he was a student at Yale University and later at Camp David while his father was president.

Is the timing not seriously suspicious? Of course we will never heard from the supposed newspaper either.

unless someone ASKED them to.

Maybe Poppy sent Junior to report to TANG with the above mentioned Press Release pinned to his shirt...

"doesn't get his kicks from pot or hashish or speed"

This is so fake it is insulting!

A cheesey "Reefer Madness," health class film, type of joke.

He "flies high" in the National Guard as a pilot. Not high on drugs.

Although he was, apparently, doing both. ;-)

... by the layperson, especially not back in the 60's/70's. :evilgrin:

So technically, it isn't a lie...

:puke:

Haven't seen them, don't believe them, and am I to believe that daddio bush was actually able to write and speak english back then?
The paper they are printed on is rice paper, not offical paper of DOD.
The ink is from Peruvian monks blood, not offical ink, unless you can produce a peruvian monk that worked in the white house back then.
You get the point. We can play the same way

...a thank-you letter from GHW Bush to the guard official who supposedly "helped" George.

When I was a recruit (US Army) no officer even knew I even existed outside of my Company Commander. Yet Chimpy has a General write his father.

No favoritism? BULL FUCKING SHIT!!!!!!!

....they're waiting at the Pentagon for the release. Jamie McIntyre reporting.

He said (I'm paraphrasing here) that this despite the fact that the WH had previously said they had released "pretty much everything" (direct quote). Arrrrgg! They said they ABSOLUTELY did release everything. Not "pretty much" everything. What an effing shill this guy is!

"we've released all the documents we have."?

Let's see what these say.

ALL BAD news for the fuehrer comes out on Friday

After the evening news is over. This may mean that there is something in them of interest, but I'm not expecting an earthquake at this point.

On edit:

Spoke too soon.

A packet of Texas Air National Guard records newly released Friday showed that the commanding officer of President Bush's basic training unit took a special interest in him as a trainee and wrote to his father to praise his son.

Bush's father, then a congressman from Texas, said in reply to the commander, ``That a major general in the Air Force would take interest in a brand new Air Force trainee made a big impression on me.''

Bush went on to say that his son ``will be a gung ho member'' of the Air Force and that Air Force instructors had ``helped awaken the very best instincts in my son.''The letter and other material were the latest in a stream of documents released about Bush's service three decades ago during the Vietnam War, when Bush's critics say he got preferential treatment as the son of a congressman and U.N. ambassador. Critics have also questioned why Bush skipped a required medical examination in 1972 and failed to show up for drills during a six-month period that year.

In addition to the letter from Bush's father, the latest documents contain news releases that the Texas Air National Guard sent to Houston newspapers in 1970 about young Bush, then a second lieutenant and new pilot. ``George Bush is one member of the younger generation who doesn't get his kicks from pot or hashish or speed,'' the news release said. ``Oh, he gets high, all right, but not from narcotics.''

Three decades later, a new book by Kitty Kelley has alleged that Bush used cocaine while he was a student at Yale University and later at Camp David while his father was president.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Bush-Guard-...

Until the children got settled, just like second grade. Nope, no preferential treatment here.

Bush's father, then a congressman from Texas, said in reply to the commander, ``That a major general in the Air Force would take interest in a brand new Air Force trainee made a big impression on me.''

Bush went on to say that his son ``will be a gung ho member'' of the Air Force and that Air Force instructors had ``helped awaken the very best instincts in my son

Well, then I wish he'd wake UP already!
Devastating the environment, stealing from Social Security to finance and illegal war, bombing and raping civilians, squeezing out the middle class, giving tax breaks to all his rich contributors,
9-11 on his watch while he was on vacation....
Are these his very best instincts?
PFFFFFT.

letter I've ever heard of a Commanding Officer writing to the father of one in his command

..is not news. It has been available for years. Is all of this junk, then?

seems to be written for RW propaganda purposes in order to cast Bu$h is a good light. For instance:

"A packet of Texas Air National Guard records newly released Friday showed that the commanding officer of President Bush's basic training unit took a special interest in him as a trainee and wrote to his father to praise his son."

I do not see any indication in this article whatsoever where Bu$h's CO wrote to his father to praise him. In fact the article says:

"The file does not contain Greene's letter to Bush's father, but shows the letter his father wrote back."

We are truly living in the era of Orwellian newsspeak. The US media is so biased toward Bu$h it is pathetic. These so called "journalists" are nothing but paid RW propagandists in the finest Goebbels tradition. Almost every story I read about Bu$h or Kerry is laced with insidious RW propaganda.

It's a load of SHIT and they are making things up.

Rather must have some info that they are trying to get ahead of. Remember that crew tries to always play offense and really, really hates defense so watch for the hit.

The early docs don't look that damaging.

Still, there is no indication as of yet that the White House has released everything or if they are releasing the docs some at a time which would imply selective release timed for the Friday news.

Like everyone here as noted (we have all become so jaded with this administration), this is a classic Friday evening bad news dump.

Karl Rove is a very, very evil man.

Rove plays games as 1,100 soldiers are dead, 20,000 soldiers are wounded, and tens of thousands of Iraqis are dead.

Evil.

Thankfully for us though they've now motivated the ENTIRE CBS NEWS division to spend all waking hours on bush in the guard. So there's more to come...

More than used to it. Jaded completley by now.

Or as Rufus Wainwright says in his great song Foolish Love:

"So the day Noah's Ark floats down Park
My eyes will be simply glazed over."

Thanks for the laugh!

Fabulous.

Welcome to DU.

where did you get it?

Jessica

http://www.imao.us

Looks like a radical right wingnut site...

R O T F L M A O!

The only thing funnier would've been if it was signed, "Not Karl Rove"

Welcome to DU! :toast:

Don't vote for Bush! He's an alien lizard!

about, they found Wes Clark's brother, that Madeline Albright was Jewish,etc - but can't find bush's Guard records or WMD - what a group

And the most self inflated. The whole pack are narcissists!

"That a major general in the Air Force would take interest in a brand new Air Force trainee made a big impression on me."

He is always releasing portions of his nonsensical diaries.

And how disingenuous to wonder why the general would take an interest in his son. Poppy was appointed RNC Chair and then made head of the CIA.

Gee, wonder why a general would take an interest in Poppy's son? :eyes:

Back then EVERYBODY did it......

...on CNN. it just BS.. a note from Big Bush saying what a great gungho Air Force pilot would be and the press releases from the Texax Guard bragging on bush boy and how he did not get his kicks from hashish and drugs. The funny part was the correspondent began his reporting on that smarmy press relase with the word IRONICALLY...hilarious..ironically indeed

repeatedly said "all the documents have been released" now THEY keep releasing more of them.

These new ones are hilarious! Quite frankly I thought I was reading The Onion when I read the CNN link.

isn't that a , ah, FLIP FLOP?

and some bogus fluff.

Certainly not Official Documentation of Bush's Service Record.

Poppy: "'will be a gung ho member' of the Air Force"

Dubya was a member of the TANG. The Air Force has made the distinction.

obtained by AP, ordering the Military to look for the missing records.So far, the few on line articles I've read are mentioning the cocaine issue in the discussion of the article/letter praising Bush.

The court deadline is for next Friday.

If W wins, WMD will be found for years.

Where are the RECORDS? Disprove the claims he was AWOL, motherf***ers!

"Ok, so I know I SAID we released everything the last three times. But this time, I REALLY mean it.

For now.

Unless someone else finds something we don't like."

Unbelievable. And nobody's gonna call them on it, either.

the CNN online story on this includes a comment that:

"The White House has said repeatedly that all of Bush's Guard records have been disclosed, only to be embarrassed when new documents have turned up."

But you're right: people don't seem to care.

Even IF they honestly believed they had found everything the last three times (I know, I know... but hear me out...) what does that say about the people running the country? They can't even track down Bush's old military records and we're supposed to trust them to track down terrorists? They thought they had uncovered all relevant documents three times now, and have been wrong three times, and we're supposed to trust them with our national security? WHY do people still support these idiots??

It is a terrible indictment of either the Pentagon's competence or the White House's dishonesty, isn't it?

I think that a lot of Americans are catching on to this nonsense.

Watching G.H.W. Bush and his spoiled, silver-spoon-up-his-nose brat's TANG commander shoving his nose up the other guy's ass - even from the safe distance of 30+ years -is just plain nauseating. But not surprising.

"George Bush is one member of the younger generation who doesn't get his kicks from pot or hashish or speed"

Wonder why they left out the next sentence that read:

"Nope, he goes straight for the BLOW! All that other stuff is minor league for George!"

:crazy:

venture in dope dealing?? What kind of Republican was he??

What a load of PR cr*p.

Then every NG member that flew more than 4 years must be "gung ho".

really?	slinkerwink	Sep-17-04 05:37 PM	#1
What a load	kskiska	Sep-17-04 05:45 PM	#12
What ANG would ever send such crap as this?	shpongled	Sep-17-04 05:56 PM	#19
REALLY? Why Would The ANG Even MENTION Kicks From Pot Hashish Or Speed?	cryingshame	Sep-17-04 07:59 PM	#54
I'm guessing it's a joke.	Sophree	Sep-17-04 09:20 PM	#65
Alcohol wasn't considered a narcotic	Myrina	Sep-17-04 06:02 PM	#
How about this...let's pull a repuke...I don't believe the docs are real..	Javaman	Sep-17-04 09:41 PM	#66
one includes...	grasswire	Sep-17-04 05:38 PM	#2
Yes and that's what's strange	Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin	Sep-17-04 11:27 PM	#75
MSNBC just said they'll be released "in the days to come." (NM)	Jonathan Little	Sep-17-04 05:38 PM	#3
CNN says....	grasswire	Sep-17-04 05:39 PM	#4
Did you hear how he characterized the release?	Scairp	Sep-17-04 05:42 PM	#8
I guess that was probably Contessa Brewer ad-libbing stuff that's not true	Jonathan Little	Sep-17-04 05:43 PM	#
In the DAYS TO COME? Hey...I'm not tuning in for that! (n/t)	KoKo01	Sep-17-04 06:02 PM	#24
Is this the 3rd, 4th or 5th round of...	Cassandra	Sep-17-04 05:39 PM	#5
Drip, drip, drip, drip, drip. Those drops are coming faster now!	Media_Lies_Daily	Sep-17-04 05:40 PM	#6
Yea, I forgot this was Friday! Should have been watching closer!	napi21	Sep-17-04 05:40 PM	#7
fiday night dump	nadinbrzezinski	Sep-17-04 05:42 PM	#9
They won't be released for another hour and a half.	spotbird	Sep-17-04 05:43 PM	#10
It figures	cal04	Sep-17-04 05:43 PM	#11
I'm sure the commanding officer corresponded with all the parents.	spotbird	Sep-17-04 05:47 PM	#14
"helped awaken the very best instincts...."	thecrow	Sep-17-04 06:13 PM	#31
"We Regret To Inform You" is the only	leetrisck	Sep-17-04 08:48 PM	#62
Unfortunately, a full plane hitting the WTC didn't appear to awake him. nt	Caliphoto	Sep-17-04 11:26 PM	#74
that news release from TANG..	grasswire	Sep-17-04 05:53 PM	#16
Um, this is misleading in that it appears to make assumptions, and it	Zorra	Sep-17-04 07:01 PM	#43
Must be Friday afternoon	MidwestTransplant	Sep-17-04 05:45 PM	#13
Letters written by Bush Senior?	WinterStorm	Sep-17-04 05:52 PM	#15
Just like the medicare hikes from two Friday's ago	DropTheGloves	Sep-17-04 05:54 PM	#17
Shows they are bleeding and can't tie up the deep cut, CBS and	candy331	Sep-17-04 05:59 PM	#21
Does NY Times Now Have All Docs Or Is WH Selectively Releasing Docs?	David Zephyr	Sep-17-04 05:54 PM	#18
We should get used to it.	Flailey	Sep-17-04 05:57 PM	#20
Welcome to the DU, Flailey.	David Zephyr	Sep-17-04 06:02 PM	#25
Welcome to DU, Flailey. I'm enjoying your posts	yardwork	Sep-17-04 11:17 PM	#70
told you guys, 5 pm central time today. i knew it!	truthisfreedom	Sep-17-04 06:00 PM	#22
Here is the first new memo to be released	wsswss	Sep-17-04 06:02 PM	#23
Huh?	David Zephyr	Sep-17-04 06:04 PM	#26
Oh that's a good one.	Dem2theMax	Sep-17-04 06:07 PM	#28
too funny! Welcome to DU! nt	vidali	Sep-17-04 06:08 PM	#29
What flavor is the kool-aid?	bobbyboucher	Sep-17-04 06:10 PM	#30
hahahahahahaha!	grasswire	Sep-17-04 06:16 PM	#32
That is hilarious....	jessicazi	Sep-17-04 06:18 PM	#33
Here...	desi	Sep-17-04 07:46 PM	#48
Hilarious	choie	Sep-17-04 06:25 PM	#36
"Not Karl Rove" - good one!	yardwork	Sep-17-04 11:18 PM	#71
Major LOL!!!n/t	texaslady	Sep-17-04 06:41 PM	#39
LMBAO! Welcome to DU wsswss!	Tight_rope	Sep-17-04 06:49 PM	#40
LOLOL	jbm	Sep-17-04 07:57 PM	#52
That is hilarious....thanks!	familydoctor	Sep-17-04 08:10 PM	#56
That sh*t is tha bomb!!! Great post!	KeepItReal	Sep-17-04 08:48 PM	#
Gotcha!	Swamp_Rat	Sep-17-04 11:10 PM	#68
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!	wicket	Sep-17-04 08:48 PM	#63
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!	Swamp_Rat	Sep-17-04 11:13 PM	#69
KKKarl? Is that you Karl?	leesa	Sep-18-04 12:22 AM	#77
Yep - right on the nose.	ReadTomPaine	Sep-17-04 07:55 PM	#51
They found Clinton's family that he knew nothing	leetrisck	Sep-17-04 06:05 PM	#27
Tell me about it! What a conveint corrupt government the US is!	Tight_rope	Sep-17-04 06:52 PM	#42
this stuff is as smarmy as it gets	mimitabby	Sep-17-04 06:20 PM	#34
link	mimitabby	Sep-17-04 06:24 PM	#35
Oh, yuck! Poppy writes the world's most unlikely letter	party_line	Sep-17-04 06:36 PM	#38
Are you kidding? that sounds just like him. (Bush 41)	LisaM	Sep-17-04 07:06 PM	#44
Agree it sounds just like him.	yardwork	Sep-17-04 11:22 PM	#72
FAUX was excusing the "help my son hint hint" letter tonight as	Joanne98	Sep-17-04 07:39 PM	#47
Well they just announced them	BlueNomad	Sep-17-04 06:26 PM	#37
amazing how no one in the media points out that the administration	Beaverhausen	Sep-17-04 07:53 PM	#50
Hmmmm....	tblue37	Sep-17-04 08:37 PM	#59
These Aren't "Documents" Though, Are They? They're A Letter From Poppy	cryingshame	Sep-17-04 08:43 PM	#60
Can't wait	saigon68	Sep-17-04 06:50 PM	#41
Thanks for waisting my time. n/t	Ernesto	Sep-17-04 07:36 PM	#45
Thanks for wasting my time. N/T	Ernesto	Sep-17-04 07:38 PM	#46
Air Force?	Keirsey	Sep-17-04 07:51 PM	#49
This is stuff the Pentagon is 'now' finding in response to the court order	Princess Turandot	Sep-17-04 07:57 PM	#53
WMD's	yelladawg	Sep-17-04 08:05 PM	#55
WTF? These aren't "records"	Carolab	Sep-17-04 08:19 PM	#57
Scott McClellan:	PermanentRevolution	Sep-17-04 08:19 PM	#58
At least right now..	Princess Turandot	Sep-17-04 08:44 PM	#61
The thing is...	PermanentRevolution	Sep-17-04 08:52 PM	#64
Welcome to DU!	yardwork	Sep-17-04 11:29 PM	#76
What we have here is a classic Mutual Brown Nose Society	Ol Sugar Coat	Sep-17-04 09:46 PM	#67
Flying high (or not, as was the case)	Andrushka	Sep-17-04 11:25 PM	#73
You mean he wouldn't even support his future wife's small business	leesa	Sep-18-04 12:25 AM	#78
Gung ho enough not to fly a plane after just 4 years	Red Fox	Sep-18-04 08:30 AM	#79