Bush AWOL Accuser Lied
Read this article from the Boston Globe: [ As usual, emphasis is ours...]
For at least six years, a retired Texas National Guard officer has maintained that President Bush's record as a member of the Guard was purged of potentially embarrassing material at the behest of high-ranking Bush aides laying the groundwork for Bush's 2000 run for the presidency.
Retired Lieutenant Colonel Bill Burkett, who has been pressing his charges in the national news media this week, says he even heard one high-ranking officer issue a 1997 order to sanitize the Bush file, and later saw another officer poring over the records and discovered that some had been discarded.
But a key witness to some of the events described by Burkett has told the Globe that the central elements of his story are false.
George O. Conn, a former chief warrant officer with the Guard and a friend of Burkett's, is the person whom Burkett says led him to the room where the Bush records were being vetted. But Conn says he never saw anyone combing through the Bush file or discarding records.
"I have no recall of that," Conn said. "I have no recall of that whatsoever. None. Zip. Nada."
Matt's Chat
I saw this Burkett guy on a couple of programs last night. He came off as scum and now I see that he is...Mark's Remarks
You know, this whole business should shed light on who the real "dirty tricksters" are. Everytime Bush provides disclosure and such, the liberal hamsters drag something or someone out of the woodwork to claim something else. This guy Burkett, on the blurbs I saw, seemed to be making things up as he went along, about like the pathological liar character on Saturday night live. It was truly sad, that this guy would lie about important issues simply for character assassination.
And, the libs in the Dim party and the press are culpable. It is shameful that the press has decided to witch hunt again, and after our own President. Not since the Reagan administration has there been such an OVERT effort to create scandal where there was none. Truly sad, but typical of the naive and easily duped liberal press, who listen to their hamster masters and jump when Terry McAuliffe says to. By the way, where is the mainstream press coverage of the Kerry Intern story? I still haven't heard it on the mainstream news. Could it be sitting on a story again? Hypocrisy? Yep.
