Bush's Father Wrote to General About Guard Service.preferential treatment?

[ElsewheresDaughter]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=615&ncid=716&e=15&u=/nm/20040917/pl_nm/campaign_bush_letter_dc

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon (news - web sites) on Friday released more documents on President Bush (news - web sites)'s Vietnam-era Air National Guard Service, including a letter from his then-congressman father George Bush (news - web sites) thanking a general for "taking interest in a brand new Air Force trainee."


Dozens of pages of documents, including historical records of the Air Guard unit in which Bush served, were released on orders from the White House. His National Guard service, which critics have charged was performed to avoid going into combat, has become an issue of contention in the presidential race.


"That a major general in the Air Force would take interest in a brand new Air Force trainee made a big impression on me," then Texas Rep. George Bush wrote to Maj. Gen. G.B. Greene Jr., commander of the Lackland Air Force Base Military Training Center, on Sept. 11, 1968.


George Bush, who himself also later became president, referred to a letter that he had received from Greene and said that his son was "anxiously looking forward to going to flight school and, with parental pride, I do have the feeling that he will be a gung ho member of the U.S. Air Force."

[Kusala]

1. CNN's take: old news releases that conveniently say Bush doesn't do drugs

This is all too convenient. Check out the CNN article on the same subject:

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/17/bush.guard.records.ap/index.html

In addition to the letter from Bush's father, the latest documents contain news releases that the Texas Air National Guard sent to Houston newspapers in 1970 about young Bush, then a second lieutenant and new pilot.

"George Bush is one member of the younger generation who doesn't get his kicks from pot or hashish or speed," the news release said. "Oh, he gets high, all right, but not from narcotics."

Three decades later, a new book by Kitty Kelley has alleged that Bush used cocaine while he was a student at Yale University and later at Camp David while his father was president.

[KoKo]

2. hmmm...has anyone checked these out to see if they are forgeries typed

on an IBM Selectric or are they new MS Word documents doctored to make them look authentic by Poppies old buddies in the CIA.

Can we get some handwriting experts to go over them? Or do we just assume they are real...:shrug:

[Moderator]

3. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=835075