Kerry hiding his record

"Hal Hanig" wrote in message
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I meant to post this responsive message only in us.military.history and
failed to notice that it had been cross-posted to rec.aviation.military
among other NGs. I apologize for adding my comments on an obvious OT
thread to the existing clutter on the subject. Sorry.

Geeze, I wish you'd decide on one personna and stick to it. Or are you going
to reserve your "George Z Bush" identity for the off-topic posts like the
one you are decrying here?

Brooks

Hal Hanig wrote:

Charlie Tuna wrote:

Steven P. McNicoll wrote:

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Nope. He never signed a form 180.



Yes he did.




Face it if this was Clinton pulling this sort of BS you'd be having
hemorrhoids from the strain.



Clinton had no military records to release as he left the country to avoid
military service entirely.



A little thing called a 'Roads Scholarship' and the number of US
students that are offered one per year was (or still is) under 2 dozen
so accepting the offer got him a student deferment which was quite legal
and proper way of staying out of the war for at lest 4 years, longer if
you do post grad work. So don't pull that crap of him leaving the
country to 'dodge the draft'


Just to avoid confusion, I think you were referring to a Rhodes Scholarship.




No, I think he got it right. Clinton sure hit the "Road" to Great
Britain to protest, and then came back here to a college deferrment,
being the draft dodger he is.

Joe Mamma wrote in message . ..

Nobody had to go to court to get Bush's records. He released them.

Then this sure was a waste of time:

http://www.theunionleader.com/articl...?article=44097

Why did that happen?

Because some people think the DoD is withholding docs despite
being order by the President to release. Given the DoD can't
even keep "secret" things secret, it seems extremely unlikely
that they would conspire with parties unknown to deliberately
withhold documents that Bush had ordered released.

The scenario they're (liberal kooks in this case) imaging
is this: The President, their boss, the big kahuna, orders
them to locate and release all relevant documents pertaining
to his military service. But, via some occult side-channel,
they're told not to look too hard etc. Well, alas to the person in
the middle! In real life, all sorts of alarm bells would sound
and red lights would flash, and there'd be leaking to the press
galore etc.

What really happens is stuff like this: that the official
retention period for some records passed long ago.
They're not found under Bush or any other likely heading.
They're presumed destroyed in accordance with policy.
Later, when rearranging things or cleaning, some drips and
drabs of said files are located under Tree or Shrub etc. etc.

But to the conspiratorial-minded this is implausible, of
course! There must be a conspiracy. ;-) So in addition to
the President ordering the docs to be released, we'll get
some judge to order the DoD to look again.

It's kind of amusing, actually.

Speaking of documents, tho, why can't Kerry release all his
military records? I know he's an honest and honorable person.
I'm sure he doesn't have anything he wants to hide. He's
a war hero after all. So what's the big idea not releasing
all his service records? He is running for President.
Seems relevant, especially since he's made an issue of
his heroism and capscity to lead .... I'm surprised CBS
hasn't looked into this.

wd

Ian MacLure wrote:

Not technically AWOL but there is a question ( a real
one not some fraud manufactured by a lunatic ) regarding
whether he actually completed his Reserve obligation.


You seem obsessed, for some reason, with that acronym.


Wonder if he knows what the term means.

As we would say in Texas:
AWOL: "And W wOn 'Lection"