AWOL: Did Garry Trudeau get any takers?

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Remember that Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau posted a $10,000 reward for anyone who could say they saw the jackass in the Alabama National Guard during the missing months of '72-73. Did anyone ever come forward?

Amazing that still no one can say they saw him...

And, what about anyone seeing him doing his community service in Houston? Has anyone vouched for him there?

Just following up on a buried story.

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1. don't think so

try to read doonesbury every day, and i haven't seen it.

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2. I doubt it

and the records were mysteriously "destroyed".

I wonder why James Bath hasn't come forward? Oh that's right, he's partners with the Bin Ladens! It's not surprising at all that no one has come forward.

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3. 1600 entries, no "winner"

http://www.projo.com/sharedcontent/washington/politics_topstories/032304cccapoldoonesbury.b60ea1fb.html


Troops are winners as Trudeau pays out reward in Bush contest
10:44 PM EST on Tuesday, March 23, 2004

By MIKE PETERS / The Dallas Morning News


And the winner is ... the USO.

Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau, who offered a $10,000 reward last month to any "credible" witnesses of President Bush on National Guard duty in Alabama in 1972, ended the contest last week by sending a check for "10 large" to the United Service Organizations.

"Alas, none of the over 1,600 entries we received qualified," the cartoonist said last week. Three carefully and arbitrarily selected runner-ups were posted on the Straw Poll page at www.doonesbury.com.

Most entries were well-marinated in both humor and skepticism, including the first runner-up, from Barbara Vanderveen of Galt, Calif.:

"I can't verify Bush's presence in Alabama, but as a dental professional I am intrigued with his dental records. Generally, an individual with a large bank account doesn't have any missing permanent molars without receiving a fixed bridge (#3 is missing, yet no bridge is placed between #2-4, #2 has a crown, but #4 only has a three-surface restoration). The American public needs to see his posterior bitewings from 1973 and a current series of bitewings to better judge the authenticity of the information provided."

"Special thanks to everyone who offered to sweeten the kitty," Mr. Trudeau said.

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4. The release of Bush's dental records proved conclusively...

the though he never received the Silver Star, he did receive a silver amalgam. :crazy:

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5. Sad that's the best they can come up with...

but good for us. I wish Kerry would use this issue, or, if not the candidate, another prominent Dem would keep it on the front burner.