AWOL BUSH SMOKING GUN
Memo cites pressure to
sugar coat Bush's Guard stint

From the Boston Globe via the Houston Chronicle:

In August 1973, President Bush's superior officer in the Texas Air National Guard wrote a memorandum complaining that the commanding general wanted him to "sugar coat" an annual officer evaluation for 1st Lt. Bush, even though Bush had not been at the base for the year in question, according to new documents obtained and broadcast Wednesday night by CBS News.

The commander, the late Lt. Col. Jerry B. Killian, wrote that he turned aside the suggestion from Brig. Gen. Walter B. Staudt, Bush's political mentor in the Guard. But he and another officer agreed to "backdate" a report — evidently the evaluation — in which they did not rate him at all. There is such a report in Bush's file, dated May 2, 1973.

"I'll backdate but won't rate," Killian apparently wrote in what is labeled a "memo to file." Initials that appear to be Killian's appear on the memo, but not his name.

And

"These documents represent strong evidence that Lieutenant Bush didn't perform after April 1972, regardless of whether he received a paycheck," said retired Brig. Gen. David L. McGinnis, who was a top aide to the assistant secretary of defense for reserve affairs.

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They lambasted Michael Moore for calling Bush a deserter, but it's now looking more and more like the maker of Farenheit 9/11 was absolutely correct: Bush was a deserter during the Vietnam war, that is, a felon. Kinda puts any of this business about whether Kerry was in Cambodia or not into a clearer perspective, doesn't it?

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