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

[grasswire]

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

Looks like a Friday night dump.

[slinkerwink]

1. really?

[kskiska]

12. What a load

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.

[Chico Man]

19. What ANG would ever send such crap as this?

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

[KittyWampus]

54. REALLY? Why Would The ANG Even MENTION Kicks From Pot Hashish Or Speed?

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!

[Sophree]

65. I'm guessing it's a joke.

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. ;-)

[Myrina]

Alcohol wasn't considered a narcotic

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

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

:puke:

[Javaman]

66. How about this...let's pull a repuke...I don't believe the docs are real..

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

[grasswire]

2. one includes...

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

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

75. Yes and that's what's strange

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!!!!!!!

[Protected]

3. MSNBC just said they'll be released "in the days to come." (NM)

[grasswire]

4. CNN says....

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

[Scairp]

8. Did you hear how he characterized the release?

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!

[Protected]

I guess that was probably Contessa Brewer ad-libbing stuff that's not true

No surprise there.

[KoKo]

24. In the DAYS TO COME? Hey...I'm not tuning in for that! (n/t)

[Cassandra]

5. Is this the 3rd, 4th or 5th round of...

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

[Media_Lies_Daily]

6. Drip, drip, drip, drip, drip. Those drops are coming faster now!

[napi21]

7. Yea, I forgot this was Friday! Should have been watching closer!

Let's see what these say.

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. fiday night dump

ALL BAD news for the fuehrer comes out on Friday

[spotbird]

10. They won't be released for another hour and a half.

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.

[cal04]

11. It figures

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-Records.html

[spotbird]

14. I'm sure the commanding officer corresponded with all the parents.

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

[thecrow]

31. "helped awaken the very best instincts...."

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.

[leetrisck]

62. "We Regret To Inform You" is the only

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

[progressivebydesign]

74. Unfortunately, a full plane hitting the WTC didn't appear to awake him. nt

[grasswire]

16. that news release from TANG..

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

[Zorra]

43. Um, this is misleading in that it appears to make assumptions, and it

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.

[MidwestTransplant]

13. Must be Friday afternoon

[WinterStorm]

15. Letters written by Bush Senior?

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

[Richardson08]

17. Just like the medicare hikes from two Friday's ago

[candy331]

21. Shows they are bleeding and can't tie up the deep cut, CBS and

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.

[David Zephyr]

18. Does NY Times Now Have All Docs Or Is WH Selectively Releasing Docs?

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.

[Flailey]

20. We should get used to it.

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...

[David Zephyr]

25. Welcome to the DU, Flailey.

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."

[yardwork]

70. Welcome to DU, Flailey. I'm enjoying your posts

[truthisfreedom]

22. told you guys, 5 pm central time today. i knew it!

[wsswss]

23. Here is the first new memo to be released

[David Zephyr]

26. Huh?

[Dem2theMax]

28. Oh that's a good one.

Thanks for the laugh! :)

[glitch]

29. too funny! Welcome to DU! nt

[bobbyboucher]

30. What flavor is the kool-aid?

Grape?

[grasswire]

32. hahahahahahaha!

Fabulous.

Welcome to DU.

[jessicazi]

33. That is hilarious....

where did you get it?


Jessica

[desi]

48. Here...

http://www.imao.us

Looks like a radical right wingnut site...

[choie]

36. Hilarious

R O T F L M A O!

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

[yardwork]

71. "Not Karl Rove" - good one!

[TexasLady]

39. Major LOL!!!n/t

[Tight_rope]

40. LMBAO! Welcome to DU wsswss!

[jbm]

52. LOLOL

That was great!!

[Bread and Circus]

56. That is hilarious....thanks!

[KeepItReal]

That sh*t is tha bomb!!! Great post!

:thumbsup:

[Swamp Rat]

68. Gotcha!

[wicket]

63. BWAHAHAHAHAHA!

That's great :)

[Swamp Rat]

69. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Welcome to DU! :toast:

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

[leesa]

77. KKKarl? Is that you Karl?

[ReadTomPaine]

51. Yep - right on the nose.

[leetrisck]

27. They found Clinton's family that he knew nothing

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

[Tight_rope]

42. Tell me about it! What a conveint corrupt government the US is!

[mimitabby]

34. this stuff is as smarmy as it gets

[mimitabby]

35. link

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/17/bush.guard.records.ap/index.html

[Rose Siding]

38. Oh, yuck! Poppy writes the world's most unlikely letter

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."

[LisaM]

44. Are you kidding? that sounds just like him. (Bush 41)

He is always releasing portions of his nonsensical diaries.

[yardwork]

72. Agree it sounds just like him.

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:

[Joanne98]

47. FAUX was excusing the "help my son hint hint" letter tonight as

Back then EVERYBODY did it......

[BlueNomad]

37. Well they just announced them

...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

[Beaverhausen]

50. amazing how no one in the media points out that the administration

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.

[tblue37]

59. Hmmmm....

isn't that a , ah, FLIP FLOP?

[KittyWampus]

60. These Aren't "Documents" Though, Are They? They're A Letter From Poppy

and some bogus fluff.

Certainly not Official Documentation of Bush's Service Record.

[saigon68]

41. Can't wait

[Ernesto]

45. Thanks for waisting my time. n/t

[Ernesto]

46. Thanks for wasting my time. N/T

[Keirsey]

49. Air Force?

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.

[Princess Turandot]

53. This is stuff the Pentagon is 'now' finding in response to the court order

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.

[yelladawg]

55. WMD's

If W wins, WMD will be found for years.

[Carolab]

57. WTF? These aren't "records"

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

[PermanentRevolution]

58. Scott McClellan:

"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.

[Princess Turandot]

61. At least right now..

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.

[PermanentRevolution]

64. The thing is...

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??

[yardwork]

76. Welcome to DU!

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.

[Ol Sugar Coat]

67. What we have here is a classic Mutual Brown Nose Society

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.

[Andrushka]

73. Flying high (or not, as was the case)

"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:

[leesa]

78. You mean he wouldn't even support his future wife's small business

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

[Red Fox]

79. Gung ho enough not to fly a plane after just 4 years

What a load of PR cr*p.

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