"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message
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"Kevin Brooks" wrote in message
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Yes, Kevin, I can perform a Google search. If you were capable of that
rather simple task you might have learned that the Trudeau prize was
NOT
offered up as an individual reward. See the last of the FAQs below:


Note the following direct quotes from your own cite: "And the two
witnesses who have come forward in support so far haven't exactly
cleared things up" and "That's right, we're offering $10,000 cash! Yours
to either spend or invest in job creation." Now tell us again how he
recognized one of the witnesses as being credible? Can you point out
which witness was allegedly found to be credible by Mr. Trudeau
and Co.?


I didn't say Trudeau recognized one of the witnesses as credible, I said a
credible witness came forward and Trudeau paid the reward as specified in
the offer. The witness was Lt. Col. John Calhoun. He remembered sharing
an
office with Lt. Bush and dining with him.

Nice try--that article (13 Feb) about Calhoun was published *before* Trudeau
made his offer; Calhoun was one of the two "not credible" witnesses
mentioned in Trudeau's initial release.

www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/ 02/27/elec04.bush.doonesbury.reut/




As to where the money was destined, it seems the ad posits two
differing claims--the one above, and the one about it going to
the USO.


Yeah, commonly referred to as "the fine print", "the catch", "the hitch",
etc.

The point is someone came forward and Trudeau paid. If nobody had come
forward to prove Bush's service he wouldn't have paid, at least not before
the election. He'd have been trumpeting "still no witness" all the way to
election day! He paid very quickly, and very quietly, after Lt. Col.
Calhoun verified Bush's service. If he hadn't the Republicans would have
lambasted him for reneging on his offer, and he'd probably be facing a
lawsuit.

Nope, the point is that Trudeau refised to consider either Calhoun or the
lady from Alabama (the other witness who had already come forward) as meeing
his own strange criteria for credibility, and both of them had come forward
*before* Trudeau issued his challenge. There has been no mention that
Calhoun ever even *submitted* for the reward. And FYI, Trudeau was still
trumpeting that no witness had come forward when he made that presentation
to the USO.

"Four weeks ago, "Doonesbury" creator Garry Trudeau announced in his cartoon
strip the "Bush Guard Service" contest: "We're offering $10,000 cash to any
witness who can definitively corroborate Mr. Bush's claim" that three
decades before he became President, he served in the Alabama National Guard.
"So if you served with Mr. Bush - even if only in the officers' club - we
want to hear from you right now! Why? So we can put this trash story to rest
and get back to the real issues." Well, it turns out that no credible
witness has come forward to claim the prize, so this week Trudeau mailed a
personal check for $10,000 to the USO."

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/goss...p-152467c.html

Or, you can take it in the words of Trudeau himself: " Alas, none of the
over 1600 entries we received qualified for the proferred $10,000."

www.doonesbury.com/strip/faqs/faq_sl.html

So, to sum it all up--you were wrong, weren't you?

Brooks