Bush Military Hisotry Project #12

Journal entry #12

This is being written as a journal in democraticunderground.com and crossposted on Dailykos, Truthout and Myleftwing.
I urge readers of this series to obtain a copy of Unfit Commander by Glenn Smith, the only source of Bush’s military papers in chronological order. Where internet references are not easily available I will give page numbers of this book for reference.
I also urge readers to become familiar with the report by Lt Col Gerald Lechliter, published in the NY Times, available at: http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/opin...
Or Google: NY Times Gerald Lechliter. I will be referring to both of these sources in this study.
I can be reached at concernedexlrrp@hotmail.com


Records researching can be a bore and one of the best parts of this story is that it goes off into so many different paths and there’s so many sidebars. This story goes forward, backward and sideways sometimes all at the same time

I hope you understood the significance of the reference I gave from the Moonie Times in BMHP #11. http://www.washtimes.com/national/20040211-121217-6595r.htm All the records, the words of the commanders, the memories of everybody in the units said that Bush wasn’t there the whole year in question but the Bush Administration trotted out the testimony of one “Emily Marks,” who Bush had been dating, who said he was there and –Bingo!!—that was enough for the media to trump ALL the evidence. All done, no more need to look there any further! The Moonie Times obligingly put the headline saying Bush’s Alabama service was “confirmed.” It was not, the testimony of ones former girlfriend NEVER establishes attendance at military events. And everybody concerned knows it.

To further illustrate the helpful spin Bush got from the media, look at an earlier Moonie Times: http://www.washtimes.com/national/20040914-123012-3759r.htm The headline clearly states: “Bush says he did not defy an order” but if you read the text, you see that not only did Bush NOT say he didn’t defy an order, but that Bartlett never said he didn’t either. (hope you can read spin by now) What Bartlett DID say is that he showed the papers to Bush and Bush said he “didn’t remember seeing them before.” THIS IS NOT A DENIAL THAT THEYRE REAL!! But that’s what Bush, the Republicans and the Moonie Times want you to think. Look what Bartlett says about whether Bush defied the order—this is a yes or no question.

Bush has NEVER Denied he was ordered to take his physical—nor have his aides—nor have they ever denied the CBS memos are real.

Think about it—is that a normal reaction of an Honest Man looking at papers about himself that he knows or suspects to be forged?? If someone came up to you with papers about your career saying that you’d been suspended from flying for failing to uphold your units standards and produced an order—signed by your commander—saying he’d ordered you to take the physical, how long would it take you to know if they were forged or not?

You’d know the minute you looked at them if they were real or not because you’d know if the events the papers described happened or not. You wouldn’t even have to look at them, someone could just tell you what they said and you’d know b y the details. The fonts would be the last thing on your mind—its what the words SAY that counts. And the words on the Killian memos LIBEL Bush if forged.

What would be your reaction?? I bet you’d be dialing your lawyer so fast it’d make your head spin and then go down to the Pentagon and the FBI and demand investigation and prosecution of the forgers!! And then file an injunction against CBS to make them stop broadcasting them and file the biggest libel suit in history. And you would OWN a good chunk of CBS before you were through. See Bush do any of this?

An Honest Man would have called for an official investigation immediately. Kerry did, although not immediately (very stupid) and that investigation cleared him. Why didn’t Bush?
Its illegal to forge federal documents—including the commander’s signature—and its illegal to use them to libel someone. And all Bush said was he didn’t remember seeing them before!! Not the reaction of an Honest Man looking at military documents about himself that he knows or suspects to be forged. And neither was the pushback.

Gallant would have denied the papers immediately himself, answered all questions thoroughly and honestly and called for an official investigation to clear his name. Goofus said he hadn’t seen them before, hid from the media, answered NO questions and then set the bloggers loose on CBS and the Swiftboaters on Kerry. Is that the reaction of an Honest Man?

We’ll be looking at all the spin around this in a subsequent BMHP installment.

Last installment I brought up the certain fact that Killian falsified the OER by claiming Bush had been in Alabama when there was obviously no evidence he was—the AL unit claims he never showed up to this day. We have the anomaly of Killian confirming Bush’s attendance at AL when the AL unit won’t.

Add that to the fact that he falsified the date of Bush’s exit from the unit, falsely listed him as a pilot 10 months after he’d been suspended, did not mention the suspension (this is a performance evaluation!) and did not rate Bush as required and we see that pretty nearly every word on this OER is false.

Is there any wonder why neither Killian or Harris SIGNED this OER, like they’d so eagerly and effusively signed the previous two? And why there’s no confirmation from Hodges like on the other two? Anybody ever think to ask Hodges about all the falsifications on this? You’d think Mapes would have—if she wasn’t all part of The Plan. No follow through at all—they must give those Peabody Awards away in CrackerJack boxes.
And this falsified OER is all that Bush has to prove he was ANYWHERE for that whole year. And all the parties concerned say he wasn’t in their unit.

So how did Bush get paid for 14 days this year? The answer is: fraudulently. Lechliter goes to great lengths to cover this and also the missing documents surrounding this so I won’t. But I’ll summarize him so far as to say that all documents concerning Bush’s Pay after May 1972 are missing. And all the pay documents before then are there.

Whoever authorized pay for Bush for those days has some tall explaining to do. For whoever’s name is on the authorization, those authorizations are not a smoking gun they are a hangman’s noose. And for Bush also. They’re certain proof of fraud aand embezzlement. You can’t cash checks you get for federal work you didn’t do—and you KNOW you didn’t do—that’s embezzlement!! And you can't authorize federal pay for work not performed--thats FRAUD!!

It must be very clear by now that the discrepancies between Bush’s records and the units’ records constitute serious fraud. How could he get paid when there’s no record of him in either unit and both commanders say he wasn’t there?
And furthermore, what could he have possibly been doing when he had been suspended from his ONLY job—flying F102s?? Don’t forget: Qualifications: NONE

What I want to know is , if Bush DID show up—against all evidence—what was he doing? What was he paid for? What does a pilot get paid for doing after he’d been stripped of all his qualifications??

That’s what we’ll be looking at next installment of BMHP.