Bush Military History Project #19

This is being written as a journal in democraticunderground.com and crossposted on Dailykos 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/....
Or Google: NY Times Gerald Lechliter. I will be referring to both of these sources in this study.
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Journal entry #19

Another of the fascinating aspects to this story is identifying all the Bush Administration media moves to smoke and mirror the truth.

We’ve seen all of them in this story ,starting with the “document dump.” This is a signature Bush Administration media move and it’s effective. What the Bush administration does is dump a large amount of documents or “factoids” on the public in a jumbled fashion and then when someone finally gets it figured out and asks questions they go into the “Its old news, all been dealt with before” routine. See the McClellan and Bartlett quotes at the start of this series.

They did that at least twice here: when they released Bush’s documents all scrambled and when they issued the false allegations of falsity that the media bought. A huge impressive bunch of “facts” that when unscrambled and checked are false, misleading, or mean something completely different than what the Bush people want you to think.

Why do I say “false allegations of falsity?” I did a diary that examined the allegations compared to the record over a year ago. Not the fonts, just what I could check from the record. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/1/7/114253/7435 Every allegation that I could check against the record was misleading or false. Every single one! Some of them ridiculously easy like:
“…23. Bush's grade would be abbreviated "1/Lt" not "1st Lt"
--A complete and utter lie. Bush’s grade is listed as 1st Lt on virtually every document. example:

“…33. Why no three hole punches evident at the top of the page?...”
--Simple study of Unfit Commander proves there’s no three hole punch marks on the top of ANY page of Bush’s documents.

“…50. The manual cited in the first forged document on line 2 of the first point #1 of "AFM 35-13" doesn't exist. That line of text reads: "to conduct annual physical examination (flight) IAW AFM 35-13". "IAW" means "In Accordance With" and "AFM 35-13" would mean Air Force Manual 35-13". There is no such Air Force Manual 35-13….”
--This is a ridiculous lie! Look at the confirmation order of Sep 22, 1972: It plainly says: “…Officer will comply with para 2-10 AFM 35-13 Authority: Para 2-29m AFM 35-13…” Hodges confirmation of Sep 6th (page256 Unfit Commander) says the same: “…In accordance with paragraph 2-29m, AFM 35-13…” (both of these documents list Bush as 1st Lt and neither has 3 hole punches) You can read para 2-29m AFM 35-13 at : http://www.glcq.com/regs/35-13_1971.pdf The authorities who wrote the confirmations say there’s an AFM 35-13—conservative bloggers say it doesn’t exist. Needless to say, the media went with the word of conservative bloggers.

You can see why I discount the fonts claims—every allegation that I could check with the record was false or misleading. Why would I think their batting average on fonts would be better? Their aim was to throw up a bunch of pseudo technical crapola and figure, rightly, that the media would never check their claims out. You see that, without a lot of specialized knowledge in their audience, they can pull this off.
That was their strategy on the document dump but there’s other signature Bush media moves to look at here. Like never proving or disproving, only “creating” controversy.” This affair is when that became their signature move: they only “created controversy” here, they never proved a thing and the media just watched them do it. As a matter of fact, the media helped them out.

More Bush moves here: The Friday afternoon release. You can always tell when the Bush people release something on Friday afternoon its something they don’t want the media to look at. (latest example: Porter Goss’ resignation) Thats when they released Bush’s papers in a scrambled heap—and not one single person in the whole media asked them why they did it that way. Scrambled a record that they say they’re proud of.

But perhaps their most signature move is to hide their chickenshit by putting it out in plain sight and calling it chickensalad. This is best exemplified by the George Bush “Honorable Discharge.”

Bush and his aides like to say that the President’s “honorable discharge” proves he served honorably. It doesn’t, it shows something completely contrary. Bush and his aides never SHOW you this discharge because it was never meant to be shown. It’s a Kiss of Death discharge.

What that means is that when the TXANG and Air Force shoved him out the door with an “honorable discharge” they were getting rid of a real problem child—a pilot who hadn’t flown for 18 months and had been suspended for 14 of them, although they paid him as a pilot for 47 days after he’d been suspended. Bush left the TXANG under a cloud and his discharge proves it. It was meant to.

Start with the NONE in the Qualifications box. Our commander in chief was discharged completely unqualified from doing ANYTHING in the military. Yet his AFSC job title is listed as 1125D: F102 pilot. We have a huge anomaly here about a pilot that CAN’T fly an airplane still being listed as a pilot.. Whats up with THAT, TXANG? What did George Bush do to earn his pay the last 47 days after he had been stripped of ALL his qualifications?

This falsification is immediately visible on the discharge and meant to cause question—but it never does. Nobody in the media has ever questioned why there’s a NONE in Bush’s qualifications box—although they had media “experts” debating how long it took Kerry to get the Swiftboat turned around.

Another way you can tell this discharge was never meant to be shown proudly to people is the sloppy way its typed. This is the sloppiest typed discharge the BMHP has ever seen. The lines run at angles to the page, overtyping the words of the form. Disharges should be neatly typed, you may be showing this to a prospective employer. Bush never had to do this, his business career was set up for him his whole life.

Not only does he have no qualifications, this discharge shows him with NO medals or awards at all. This is truly amazing for someone that was supposed to be the Pride of the TXANG. TAFMS and TAFCS are not medals, they stand for, respectively: Total Accumulated Federal (there’s that word again) Military/Civilian Service. These are categories of training days—there should be a colon and a number after each one indicating number of days served in that category. And there’s none.

Originally I thought this was done to try and pass off TAFCS and TAFMS as medals. But Bush was awarded the NDSM for 6 months service and a basic marksmanship award, neither of which is listed. Now I inderstand that the lack of the number and colon indicates another falsification. Rufus Martin didn’t want to put down the number of days because it would be fraudulent.

So Our Commander in Chief’s discharge shows he was completely unqualified when discharged and they didn’t list his medals at all on the sloppiest typed discharge on record.. They didn’t want Georgie to proudly wave this around—although he does.

There’ll be much more about this discharge in the next BMHP