"Kevin Brooks" wrote in message
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Nice try--that article (13 Feb) about Calhoun was published *before*
Trudeau made his offer;


Yup, ten days before. You'd think a political cartoonist would make some
effort to stay on top of things.



Calhoun was one of the two "not credible" witnesses
mentioned in Trudeau's initial release.


Calhoun was a "credible witness" by any reasonable definition.



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 if you served with Mr. Bush - even if only in the officers' club - we
want to hear from you right now!", says Trudeau. Well, Calhoun meets that
criterion.



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


No, Kevin, I wasn't wrong. You were wrong. I said a witness came forward
and Trudeau paid the USO. That is what happened. You said the money was
offered up as an individual reward. But it wasn't offered as an individual
reward, the money was to go to the USO from the start.

http://makeashorterlink.com/?M23723A39