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realFedUp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-10-04 11:06 AM
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Bernie Weiner-Bush's AWOL Scandal

Bernie needs our help on this....read the whole
article and the action needed.

http://crisispapers.org/essays/awol-scandal.htm

Bush's AWOL Scandal: Let's Break
Through the Media Barrier
Bernard Weiner
Co-Editor, The Crisis Papers
August 9, 2004

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It turns out that, unlike the great majority of ordinary journalists, Lukasiak was undaunted by the hundreds of pages of dry military records distributed by the White House. He was a bloodhound on the hunt. And, he possessed some experience in working with old documents, especially old military punch-card records from 30 years ago.

In a recent email, Lukasiak described how he pieced the story together: "I spent a couple of months reading the statutes, DoD regulation, and Air Force policies and procedures, and spent a great deal of time figuring out the rest of the payroll records and 'points records' themselves. Having acquired a certain amount of knowledge, the nature and the meaning of the pattern in the payroll data became self-evident....Just by looking at the data lines found in the payroll records, there are obvious patterns that anyone could detect."

And so, piece by piece, Lukasiak pulled together the jigsaw puzzle that was George W. Bush's long-ago, much-abbreviated military service. And, lo and behold, he figured it out. His four months of research led him to a number of incendiary conclusions, documented with his meticulous research, which were picked up by a relatively small number of online websites -- Corrente , Kevin Drum, Democrats.com, The Crisis Papers. For example, here's what Lukasiak furnished The Crisis Papers, as a way of summing up his four months of research; the emphasis is supplied:

"When considered within their proper legal and policy context, the Bush records effectively rebut the White House claim that Bush 'fulfilled his duty.' When considered as a whole, these documents reveal that Bush spent the last two years of his six-year Military Service Obligation in an active effort to avoid fulfilling the obligations and commitments he incurred upon entering the Texas Air National Guard.

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Miss Authoritiva Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-10-04 12:31 PM
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1. Bush AWOL: Got him in, Got him off, Got him out
Excellent call to action -- especially in light of the new new low of the Swift Boat Liars. Let's all crank up the hard drives and blitz the media.

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realFedUp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-10-04 01:28 PM
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2. Thanks! nt
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Fridays Child Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-10-04 02:22 PM
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3. Kicking
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-10-04 09:33 PM
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4. Kick for ousting the awoler.
Thanks to Bernard Weiner and the Crisis Papers.

And a big thanks to Paul Lukasiak of Philadelphia!
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