OMG, James Webb - Secretary of the Navy under Regan...

[deminflorida]

just dropped a bomb on Bush's AWOL on Aron Brown/CNN....

Service records or portions just don't disappear or get lost...

[jmaier]

1. That's true

I was active duty for a number of years and then in the reserves. I recently requested copies of my service records and they were provided from an archive -- no problem. They included pay records from reserve days on duty. If you show up, you get paid. The records exist.

[Sperk]

2. I'm glad this is making the news....but what gives? This should

have been a story 3 years ago! Maybe Mike Rupert is right...the "powers that be" want Smirky out?!
:shrug:

[Auntie Bush]

3. Right...but service records do get wiped clean by Father's

in high places. Bush sucks!

[jmaier]

5. Precisely

The LACK of appropriate service records is in and of itself a smoking gun.

[blm]

4. Kerry guy.

I told you folks...Clark and Kerry are doing this the RIGHT way. They let their subdivisions speak out. They have to just maintain the question is out there.

Even conservative military guys are bolting the GOP to stand with Kerry against Bush.

[ChiefJoseph]

6. Hmmmm

There are a lot of people on tbus site who cling to what I believe is an idiotic belief that Bush deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen for various reasons. My question for them is:

If he was capable of that deception, which would have required the complicity of dozens and perhaps hundreds of people, how hard would it be for him to suddenly produce some authentic-looking documents "proving" that he was not AWOL?

[Vogon_Glory]

7. James Webb? Now THERE'S An Eye-Opener!

I find the fact that James Webb would start making noise about the incumbent's service records to be quite an eye-opener. James Webb is a Reagan Republican, an old-style conservative, and hardly the sort of person who would coddle either those in the anti-war movement back in the 1970's or people who played the system back then to avoid the draft.

To any "Conservative" lurkers who might be reading this, what goes around comes around. Right-wingers who spent the eight years of the previous administration slamming former president Clinton's alledged "draft dodging," then slamming former vice president Gore's service in Vietnam should expect that their avatars won't escape the same sort of scrutiny or criticism when their time comes around.

When presenting a war hero, present a genuine war hero, not a simulation.

[madrchsod]

9. remember george the lesser

was forced upon reagan before the convention. the republicans from the west coast-john birchers,ect.- thought bush was the anti-christ because he believed in the one world/new world ideology. the old guard of the republicans are smelling blood.

[jfxgillis]

8. Against every gram of my better judgment ...

... I've always like Webb, even though he's a screaming rw a-hole.

He's an excellent prose stylist, though, and intellectually consistent. And very, very, very VERY influential in certain high military circles.

Did Webb seem PERSONALLY scornful of GWB?