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TruthIsAll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-09-04 08:14 AM
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The Bush MicrofilmRecordsGate Scam - a Primer
CNN.com - Guardsman says he saw Bush's Guard records in trash ...
... Bush served in the Texas Air National Guard during the ... Bill Burkett, who was then an adviser to the Texas adjutant general, who in that capacity serves as ...
www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/02/12/elec04.prez.bush.texas.records/ - 45k - Cached - Similar pages

CNN.com - Bush releases his Vietnam-era military files - Feb. 14 ...
... Bill Burkett told CNN that in 1997, he overheard Joe ... the governor." About 10 days later, Burkett said, he ... (Guardsman says he saw Bush's Guard records in trash). ...
www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/02/13/elec04.prez.bush.texas.records/ - 48k - Jul 7, 2004 - Cached - Similar pages
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USATODAY.com - Ex-officer: Bush file's details caused concern
... Bill Burkett, then a top adviser to the state Guard ... James and the White House denied Burkett's story ... didn't directly answer a question about why Bush had missed ...
www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-02-11-bush-guard-usat_x.htm - 64k - Jul 7, 2004 - Cached - Similar pages

Boston.com / News / Nation / Doubts raised on Bush accuser
... Retired Lieutenant Colonel Bill Burkett, who has been pressing his ... Burkett also says that, before the encounter with ... order Scribner to review the Bush file and ...
www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/02/13/doubts_raised_on_bush_accuser/ - 28k - Cached - Similar pages

Calpundit: An Interview With Bill Burkett
... in Dallas, Texas, which is the old haunt of Governor Bill Clements ... This Burkett stuff is a disaster for him ... Isn't it puzzling that no one from Bush's Guard unit(s ...
www.calpundit.com/archives/003249.html - 101k - Cached - Similar pages

Calpundit: Were Bush National Guard Records "Cleansed"?
... Bush spent a few hours over a couple of months, at most, at the AL National Guard. ... Kevin, Bill Burkett was apparently at death's door from ca. ...
www.calpundit.com/archives/003240.html - 101k - Cached - Similar pages
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Move to Screen Bush File in 90's Is Reported
... Texas television reporter and co-author of "Bush's Brain ... mail message to comment on Mr. Burkett's statements ... in Europe, said: "I know LTC Bill Burkett and served ...
www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0212-06.htm - 17k - Cached - Similar pages

What Bush's Guard File Reveals
... Bill Burkett, a retired lieutenant colonel in the Texas National Guard did tell various ... Burkett recalled he later spotted items from Bush's file in the ...
www.commondreams.org/views04/0219-03.htm - 19k - Cached - Similar pages
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Salon.com News | "Bad news doesn't get better with age"
... Times via e-mail, "I know LTC Bill Burkett and served ... Burkett told the New York Times he was hospitalized ... James to make sure the records were assembled ...
www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/02/14/burkett/ - 54k - Cached - Similar pages

Salon.com News | New Bush records, same old questions
... years ago by a retired Texas Air National Guard officer who ... Bill Burkett claims to have seen tossed in the trash can in 1997 were Bush's personnel review ...
www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/02/17/records/ - 46k - Cached - Similar pages
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GW Bush Went AWOL - Home Page
... Bush's partial history - Stringent military screening program may ... gaps on president's record Bill Morlin and ... two Washington Air National Guard airmen with ...
www.awolbush.com/ - 91k - Jul 7, 2004 - Cached - Similar pages

FactCheck.org New Evidence Supports Bush Military Service (Mostly)
... said a retired Guard Lieutenant Colonel, Bill Burkett, said that ... of Burkett's, is the person whom Burkett says led ... Aides say records show Bush served: Retired ...
www.factcheck.org/article.aspx?docID=140 - 36k - Jul 7, 2004 - Cached - Similar pages

News 8 Austin | 24 Hour Local News | HEADLINES
... Bill Burkett said Wednesday in a telephone interview with The ... Burkett's allegations were reported by The Dallas Morning ... dental record to show Bush did guard ...
www.news8austin.com/content/headlines/?ArID=97727&SecID=2 - 54k - Cached - Similar pages

BUSH WATCH 2004 - February 12
... Col. Bill Burkett said that, in 1997, Joe Allbaugh (chief of ... there that will embarrass the governor.” Burkett said that ... in Austin, he “saw Mr.Bush’s file ...
www.maineaflcio.org/04-02-12%20bush%20watch.htm - 21k - Cached - Similar pages

Search Results
... Bill Burkett said Tuesday that in 1997, then-Gov ... Burkett said that a few days later at Camp ... Bush AWOL Watch: Eyewitness Says Bush's Incriminating National Guard ...
www.democrats.com/search.cfm?term=burkett - 27k - Cached - Similar pages

Trolling for Truth
... Col. Bill Burkett said Tuesday that in 1997, then-Gov. ... Col. Burkett said that a few days later at Camp Mabry in Austin, he saw Mr. Bush's file and ...
www.democrats.com/display.cfm?id=330 - 55k - Cached - Similar pages

Bush Records Released; Guardsmen Speak ALLEN G. BREED / AP 12feb04
... Daniel James of the Texas Air National Guard in which he contends those two men ... Bill Burkett told the AP that he saw documents from Bush's file discarded ...
www.mindfully.org/Reform/2004/Bush-Guardsmen-Speak12feb04.htm - 9k - Cached - Similar pages

Bush's National Guard files 'thrown out' - World - www.smh.com.au
... The retired Texas National Guard officer, Bill Burkett, said in a ... by Mr Bush, also denied Mr Burkett's account ... on January 6, 1973 proving that Mr Bush served in ...
www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/02/12/1076548164185.html - 28k - Cached - Similar pages

Bush Aides Accused of Destroying Military Documents
... Bill Burkett said that, in 1997, Joe Allbaugh (chief of ... there that will embarrass the governor." Burkett said that ... Mabry in Austin, he "saw Mr. Bush's file and ...
www.rense.com/general49/des.htm - 12k - Cached - Similar pages

CBS News | Guardsmen Differ On Bush Service | February 13, 2004 17 ...
... in a new book, former guard officer Bill Burkett claims that ... better maybe than the individual's record," Burkett said ... conversation in which Mr. Bush's then chief ...
www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/02/13/politics/main600330.shtml - 52k - Cached - Similar pages

Retired Guard officer says he saw some files discarded in trash
... Retired National Guard Lt. ... Bill Burkett said Tuesday that in 1997, then-Gov. Bush's chief of staff, Joe Allbaugh, told the National Guard chief to get the Bush ...
www.dallasnews.com/s/nationworld/washingtonprint/021004cccapolguard.a88bb4a.html - 13k - Cached - Similar pages

Bush fulfilled his Guard duty, White House says
... Bill Burkett said Tuesday that in 1997, then-Gov. ... Burkett said that a few days later, he saw Bush's ... Bush aides denied any destruction of records or any order ...
www.freep.com/news/nw/bush11_20040211.htm - 30k - Cached - Similar pages

Marine Corps Times - News - More News
... Bill Burkett, then a top adviser to the state Guard ... James and the White House denied Burkett’s story. ... t directly answer a question about why Bush had missed ...
http://marinecorpstimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-2638490.php - 29k - Cached - Similar pages

washingtonpost.com: Right in the Teeth
... of potentially embarrassing details from Bush's military records ... senior officer of the Texas Guard said Wednesday ... of a 1998 letter from Bill Burkett, a retired ...
www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A32227-2004Feb11?language=printer - Similar pages

Home | News & Information
... television reporter and co-author of "Bush's Brain." The ... e-mail message to comment on Mr. Burkett's statements ... Europe, said: "I know LTC Bill Burkett and served ...
www.mobilefreepress.org/Assets/articles/WORLD_ISSUES/021304MovToScrnBsh.html - 13k - Cached - Similar pages

Bush AWOL
... The retired officer, Bill Burkett, said in the letter to ... Times by a lawyer for Mr. Burkett." (See also ... the Press" interview pertaining to Bush's service record ...
www.crisispapers.org/topics/bush-awol.htm - 47k - Jul 8, 2004 - Cached - Similar pages

Taipei Times - archives
... general Daniel James of the Texas Air National Guard in which ... Retired Lieutenant Colonel Bill Burkett said that he saw documents from Bush's file discarded ...
www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2004/02/13/2003098568/print - 7k - Cached - Similar pages

KeepMedia | US.News & World Report: The Weekend Warrior Wars
... Earlier, a retired guardsman, Bill Burkett, repeated accusations that ... told US News that a Bush aide reviewed ... Burkett says he later saw another guardsman going ...
www.keepmedia.com/pubs/USNewsWorldReport/2004/02/23/378971?extID=10026 - Similar pages

Bush's flight from the Guard
... Bill Burkett, who was a strategic planning officer for ... the Guard removing documents from Bush's military personnel ... Burkett again said the papers bearing Bush's ...
http://home.earthlink.net/~imfalse/bushs_flight_from_guard.html - 22k - Cached - Similar pages

The Columbus Dispatch - Election
... Bill Burkett said yesterday that, in 1997, then-Gov ... A few days later, at Camp Mabry in Austin, Burkett said he ... He said Bush has been forthright in producing all ...
www.dispatch.com/election/election-president.php?story=dispatch/2004/02/11/20040211-A1-02.html - 38k - Cached - Similar pages

Bush Deserves a Dishonorable Discharge
... In 1998, retired National Guard officer Bill Burkett said that in the spring of ... Days later, Burkett says he saw about twenty pages from Bush’s military ...
www.hermes-press.com/dishonorable.htm - 21k - Cached - Similar pages

MSNBC - Bush accuser comes under scrutiny
... Bill Burkett, says central elements of Burkett's story are false. ... that would “embarrass the governor.” Burkett said he saw documents from Bush’s file ...
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4261654/ - 41k - Cached - Similar pages

HobbsOnline
... UPDATE: Don't miss John Cole's rather far better fisking of Drum's "meme-u-facturing" piece on Dan Burkett. Posted by Bill in Was Bush AWOL? ...
http://billhobbs.com/hobbsonline/003287.html - 47k - Cached - Similar pages

Letting His Guard Down: What Really Happened to George W. Bush in ...
... a story today about a man named Bill Burkett, who claims ... And the story of Bill Beckett, who saw the trashed ... the purge was the work of Bush staffers, working ...
www.democraticunderground.com/articles/04/02/13_guard.html - 31k - Cached - Similar pages

Scott McClellan Accuses George Bush of "Gutter Politics" and " ...
... record as a member of the Guard was purged ... Bush aides laying the groundwork for Bush's 2000 run ... Retired Lieutenant Colonel Bill Burkett, who has been pressing ...
www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/2004_archives/000285.html - 39k - Cached - Similar pages

The Fatty Newsroom News Article - Delivering News That Matters
... was assigned -- so the Texas Air National Guard could keep ... unable to produce peers from Bush's service in ... But Bill Burkett, a retired lieutenant colonel in the ...
www.fbbn.com/cgi-bin/viewnews. cgi?category=10&id=1076969418 - 101k - Cached - Similar pages

Bush's aides back off on releasing all records
... reported by the Dallas Morning News, retired National Guard Lt ... Bill Burkett said that, in 1997, Joe Allbaugh (chief of staff for then-Governor Bush) told the ...
www.apfn.net/messageboard/02-12-04/discussion.cgi.10.html - 14k - Cached - Similar pages

TalkLeft: Bush Aide May Have Destroyed Guard Records
... Bill Burkett said Tuesday that in 1997, then-Gov ... Burkett said that a few days later at Camp Mabry ... denied any destruction of records in Mr. Bush's personnel file ...
http://talkleft.com/new_archives/005292.html - 18k - Cached - Similar pages

Roger Simon of US News: “Nobody Died When Bill Clinton Lied” ...
... nothing will embarrass the governor.'" Bill Burkett, Texas National ... than the individual's record." Plante: "Burkett says he ... saw some of the Bush records in the ...
www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2004/cyb20040216.asp - 74k - Cached - Similar pages

ABC Poll Finds Most Say National Guard “Not a Legitimate Issue ...
... Colonel Bill Burkett, the man who claims he overheard Joe ... demanding that the Guard “cleanse” Bush’s records. But Matthews got Burkett to concede he didn ...
www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2004/cyb20040213.asp - 78k - Cached - Similar pages
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Patriots for Bush: The incredible, non-credible witness!
... Watch Bill Hobbs do a masterful job of making Kevin ... in 1977 - but by 1977 most of Bush's personnel records ... Burkett says he saw paper documents in the trash in ...
www.patriotsforbush.com/archives/000076.html - 15k - Cached - Similar pages

The Expat: As I Said...
... Bill Burkett tells the rather convincing story, which he documented ... when he enlisted, and told the guard his criminal ... said they were looking for Bush but could ...
http://xpat.org/archives/000133.html - 14k - Cached - Similar pages

MetroBEAT: Greenville, SC: In the Gutter
... Bill Burkett has alleged that in 1997 Bush and his aides ... in a trash can.” In 1998, Burkett says he ... lack of any definitive proof of exactly what Bush did when ...
www.metrobeat.net/gbase/Expedite/Content?oid=oid%3A2445 - 32k - Cached - Similar pages

04.5.cullen.bushguard
... Bill Burkett, claims that documents were purged from Bush's files ... the governor. The newspaper quoted Burkett as saying ... days later he saw Mr. Bush's file and ...
www.populist.com/04.5.cullen.bushguard.html - 19k - Cached - Similar pages

Drudge Reports Lame Stink Bomb - BuzzFlash Reader Commentary
... Bill Burkett has come forward to say that Bush and his ... discarded in a trash can." In 1998, Burkett sent a ... So in September, Bush applied to the 187th Tactical ...
www.buzzflash.com/contributors/04/02/con04069.html - 23k - Cached - Similar pages

- The Film Hobbit Forum
... Now, who the hell is Bill Burkett? ... Scribner said he was looking through Bush's records, and Burkett saw ... Burkett's accusations come on the end of a prolonged ...
www.filmhobbit.com/forum/archive/topic/10538-1.html - 16k - Cached - Similar pages

Take Responsibility, President Bush - QuickTopic bulletin board
... Bill Burkett said Tuesday that in 1997, then-Gov ... Burkett said that a few days later at Camp Mabry in ... Bush aides denied any destruction of records in Mr. Bush's ...
www.quicktopic.com/25/H/57AwBrXVFbEfU - 15k - Cached - Similar pages

Sebastian Holsclaw: Comment on Lt Smash on Guard Duty
... Col. Bill Burkett said Tuesday that in 1997, then-Gov. ... Burkett said that a few days later at Camp Mabry in Austin, he saw Mr. Bush's file and documents ...
www.sebastianholsclaw.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=136 - 14k - Cached - Similar pages

BushService
... Bill Burkett, said ... Guard officials to remove damaging information from Mr. Bush's military personnel ... Mr. Burkett said he saw a trash basket with discarded ...
www.costanzo.org/Rex/Commentary/bushservice.htm - 10k - Cached - Similar pages


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trumad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-09-04 08:20 AM
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1. And folks thought that old Bill was a crackpot
Edited on Fri Jul-09-04 08:20 AM by trumad
Bill witnessed the destruction of these records... Guess what? I believe Bill 1000 percent and now there's ample proof that he was telling the truth!
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wicket Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-09-04 08:23 AM
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2. Wow, thank-you for this
Lot's of great info, this is one for the bookmark file! :thumbsup:
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NMDemDist2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-09-04 08:23 AM
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3. yes thanks.. eom
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Cheswick2.0 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-09-04 08:27 AM
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4. book marked it
thanks. Everyone should keep this on file to use in arguments with freepers.
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Gordon25 Donating Member (246 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-09-04 10:33 AM
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nothingshocksmeanymore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-09-04 10:57 AM
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TruthIsAll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-09-04 12:25 PM
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TruthIsAll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-09-04 05:23 PM
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8. kick
tia
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Karenina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-09-04 08:04 PM
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9. KICK!!!
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TruthIsAll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-09-04 09:51 PM
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10. Hi, Karenina, always fun to see you read my posts.
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Karenina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-10-04 06:29 AM
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11. Truth is AMMUNITION!!!!
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