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Jersey Devil

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Thu Feb-12-04 08:19 AM
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dupe - please lock

Edited on Thu Feb-12-04 08:34 AM by Jersey Devil

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-02-11-bush-guard-usat_x.htm

By Dave Moniz and Jim Drinkard, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — As Texas Gov. George W. Bush prepared to run for president in the late 1990s, top-ranking Texas National Guard officers and Bush advisers discussed ways to limit the release of potentially embarrassing details from Bush's military records, a former senior officer of the Texas Guard said Wednesday.

A second former Texas Guard official, who spoke only on condition of anonymity, was told by a participant that commanders and Bush advisers were particularly worried about mentions in the records of arrests of Bush before he joined the National Guard in 1968, the second official said.

Bill Burkett, then a top adviser to the state Guard commander, said he overheard conversations in which superiors discussed "cleansing" the file of damaging information.

The first report was yesterday in the Dallas Morning News:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=358748

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DoYouEverWonder

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Thu Feb-12-04 08:21 AM
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1. Sorry, dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=359502

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Stuckinthebush

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Thu Feb-12-04 08:22 AM
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2. Whoa!

That is damning!

That little smirky idiot is going to lose - thanks for this article.

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R Hickey

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Thu Feb-12-04 08:23 AM
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3. The end of Bush?

This news don't look good for our "War President."

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Shadder

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Thu Feb-12-04 08:38 AM
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5. We can hope

Gonna be a real interesting couple of weeks it looks like.

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LeftHander

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Thu Feb-12-04 08:23 AM
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4. USA Today....that means

Edited on Thu Feb-12-04 08:31 AM by LeftHander

It will make the evening TV news then....

And USA today sat on this for over a year....2002 they investigated and nothing ran...

What shits...

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Shadder

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Thu Feb-12-04 08:42 AM
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6. Story is in play

In a lot of major newspapers this morning. I for one canot wait untill the daily press briefing today.

Yeah, they may not have done their job in the past but keep in mind that what counts is that they have woken up and are doing it now. Better late than never. Now lets keep this (and all the other stories on him) out there and at the top of the news.

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