Reply #8: Lt. Col. Bill Burkett has been speaking and writing about AWOL [View All]

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for awhile now.

Last May he wrote the following article for Online Journal about his experiences with Bu$hCo and Bu$h's scrubbed records.


http://www.onlinejournal.com/bush/031903Burkett/031903burkett.html

What do you say?

By Bill Burkett
Online Journal Contributing Writer

March 19, 2003—I've sat in total grief for the past three years, watching the institutions of America being spent as if they were lottery winnings.

I don't want to say it, "But I told you so."

In January of 1998 and what seems like a full lifetime ago, I was stricken by a deadly case of meningoencephalitis. I was returning from a short duty trip to Panama as a team chief to inspect the hand over of Ft. Clayton to the Panamanians. I had been 'loaned' from the senior staff and state planning officer of the Texas National Guard to the Department of the Army for a series of these special projects after angering George W. Bush by refusing to falsify readiness information and reports; confronting a fraudulent funding scheme which kept 'ghost' soldiers on the books for additional funding, and refusing to alter official personnel records .

George W. Bush and his lieutenants were mad. They ordered that I not be accessed to emergency medical care services, healthcare benefits I earned by my official duty; and I was withheld from medical care for 154 days before I was withdrawn from Texas responsibility by the Department of the Army, by order of the White House.



The following link is an interview that he did with Pacifica radio last May. Scroll down to the third item to listen to Burkett's story:


http://archive.webactive.com/pacifica/peacewatch/peace20030506.html

Story: FORMER TEXAS ARMY NATIONAL GUARD LT. COL. BILL BURKETT ON BUSH THE "CHICKEN HAWK"

Today the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln returned to port in Everett, Washington after being deployed for ten months. President Bush addressed the nation regarding the end of hostilities in Iraq from the deck of the Abraham Lincoln last week. For some veterans, the sight of George W. Bush landing on the aircraft carrier was a sore point.

Although Bush's autobiography states he was a fighter pilot, his military record show that through a disciplinary action, he lost his flying privileges and never served in combat. Last week, Peace Watch spoke with 28 year Army veteran Lt. Colonel Bill Burkett who shares some little known facts about how president select Bush came to be in the Texas National Guard.