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Old September 25th 04, 05:42 AM
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"BUFDRVR" wrote in message
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Leadfoot wrote:

That may be, but all the "aw ****s" in this case were fabrications.


Not according LtCol Killians secretary


Was this before or after her emotional out burst about Bush stealing the

2000
election and lying about Iraq? The reason this lady's statement about the
forged documents was so believable was her rabid anti-Bush sentiment.



Read it and weep

Or do you just want to only believe the parts ot the interview you like?

Transcript of 60 Minutes, September 15, 2004.

DAN RATHER: Last week on this broadcast, we heard for the first time the
full story from a texas politician who says he helped George Bush avoid
military service in vietnam. Former texas house speaker Ben Barnes said he
helped Bush get a highly coveted place in the National Guard. We also
presented documents for the first time, which indicated that once Bush was
accepted into the guard he failed to live up to the requirements of his
service. We reported that the documents were written by lieutenant Bush's
National Guard squad commander, colonel Jerry Killian, who passed away in
1984.

In the past week, those documents have been subjected to extraordinary
scrutiny and criticism tonight, another voice-- a credible voice-- has
entered the debate. The woman who describes herself as colonel Killian's
right hand during much of the 1970s, Marion Carr Knox, colonel Killian's
secretary, flew to new york this afternoon to tell us she believes the
documents we obtained are not authentic. But there's yet another confusing
twist to this story: She told us she believes what the documents actually
say is exactly as we reported. Marion carr knox is 86 years old and
completely comfortable in the eye of a storm. She spent more than two
decades keeping pilots and officers in line at elseon air field in houston.
Now she wants to set the record straight about the memos cbs obtained.
There's a twist. You've seen the memos that we broadcast, these memos that
we got.

MARION CARR KNOX: I did not type those memos.

RATHER: You didn't type these memos?

KNOX: No. And it's not the form that i would have used. And there are words
in there that belong to the army, not to the air guard. We never used those
terms.

RATHER: So with these memos, you know that you didn't type them.

KNOX: I know that i didn't type them. However, the information in those is
correct.

RATHER: Few, if any, things that I ask you about will be more important than
this point: You say you definitely didn't type these memos.

KNOX: Not these particular ones.

RATHER: Did you type ones like this?

KNOX: Yes.

RATHER: Containing the same or identical information?

KNOX: The same information, yes.

RATHER: Mrs. Knox says the information in the four memos cbs obtained is
very familiar, but she doesn't believe the memos are authentic. She does
remember her boss, colonel Jerry Killian, being upset over mr. Bush's
failure to follow orders to take a physical. Did or did not lieutenant Bush
take a physical as ordered by colonel Killian?

KNOX: That last time no he didn'T.

RATHER: To your norjs was he ordered to do so?

KNOX: Yes.

RATHER: This is important: I think you'll agree, that then-lieutenant Bush
was in the military, lieutenant colonel Killian was his immediate military
commander, correct, his squadron command center

KNOX: Right. Yeah.

RATHER: The country was at war. It's very unusual for a military officer,
particularly a flying officer, not to obey a direct order from his superior,
or if not, tell me.

KNOX: It was a big no-no. To not follow orders. I can't remember anyone
refusing now, for instance, with the physical, every officer knew that at
his birthday he was supposed to have that flying physical. Once in a while
they might be late, but there would be a good excuse for it and let the
commander know and try to set up a date for make-up. If they did not take
that physical, they were off of flying status until they did.

RATHER: Did you ever hear lieutenant colonel Killian talk about this or did
he write memos about this? What was his feeling if lieutenant Bush did not
take the physical as ordered?

KNOX: He was upset about it. That was one of the reasons why he... well, he
wrote a memo directing him to go take the physical.

RATHER: I don't understand it.

KNOX: I'm going to say this: It seems to me that Bush felt that he was above
reproof.

RATHER: Marion carr knox remembers lieutenant Bush well, seeing him often as
he showed up for training in 1971 and '7 2,

KNOX: He was always gentlemanly. He called me by the name of his father's
secretary. He was always apologizing about that. He couldn't remember my
name. He was very gentlemanly. I felt that his parents must have been
wonderful to have produced somebody as nice as that.

RATHER: Among the contentions one of the questions raised, one, did or did
not George W. Bush get into the National Guard on the basis of preferential
treatment.

KNOX: I'm going to say that he did. I feel that he did because there were a
lot of other boys in there the same way.

RATHER: Accurate or inaccurate to say that this unit was filled with people
who had republican and democratic connections who got in on the basis of
preference?

KNOX: At that time, yes.

RATHER: Now, you observed lieutenant Bush yourself.

KNOX: Uh-huh.

RATHER: Tell me about him. What kind of officer was he?

KNOX: Bush seemed to be having a good time. He didn't seem to be having any
problem with the other pilots, let me say that. But his time there, itt
seemed that the other fellas were, I'm going to say this, sort of resentful
for his attitude.

RATHER: What was his attitude?

KNOX: Well, that he really didn't have to go by the rules.

RATHER: He didn't really have to go by the rules?

KNOX: It seemed that way to me.

RATHER: Knox says her boss, colonel Jerry Killian, started what she calls a
cover-your-back file, a personal file where she stored the memos about the
problems with mr. Bush's performance and his failure to take a physical and
the pressure Killian felt from upstairs. She addressed this memo and a
reference to retired general stout pushing for a positive officer training
report on lieutenant Bush. And stout is pushing to sugar coat it. Does that
sound like colonel Killian? Is that the way he felt?

KNOX: That's absolutely the way he felt about that.

RATHER: And she talked about this mental moment. She doesn't believe the
memo is authentic, but she says the facts behind it are very real. He did
write a memo like this?

KNOX: Yes.

RATHER: So he did write a memo like this, not this one is your contention,
but one like it?

KNOX: It's just like a personal journal. You write things.

RATHER: Is that what he was keeping, more or laeses personal journal?

KNOX: It was more or less, that yes.

RATHER: These memos were not memos that you tipd and you don't think they
came directly out of his files?

KNOX: The information, yes. It seems that somebody did see those memos, and
then tried to reproduce and maybe changed them enough so that he wouldn't
get in trouble over it.

RATHER: I understand.

KNOX: Could deny it.

RATHER: I understand.

KNOX: That's all just supposition.

RATHER: I understand.

(voiceover) Mrs. Knox says the fact that then-lieutenant Bush was repeatedly
missing drills was not lost on his fellow pilots.

Was it common knowledge or not that lieutenant Bush had not attend some
drills?

KNOX: Well, they missed him. It was sort of gossip around there, and they'd
snicker and so forth about what he was getting away with.

RATHER: What lieutenant Bush was getting away with?

KNOX: Yeah.

RATHER: They were snickering about that?

KNOX: Well, the other officers, and I guess there was even a resentment.

RATHER (voiceover): She told us again and again she believed

then-lieutenant Bush refused a direct order to take take a physical.

Colonel Killian's son, with whom I have no argument and i respect the
Killian family tremendously for the sacrifice that they made when their
husband and father was serving in the military, colonel Killian's son says
that this this isn't true.

KNOX: He has no way of knowing whether it's true or noT.

RATHER (voiceover): Mrs. Knox says for young George Bush in 1972, working

in a senate campaign became more important than flying for the guard.

Back off for a moment. Take a breath. Think a little and have you tell me
what you believe the story here is.

KNOX: I think it's plain and simple. Bush didn't think that he had to go by
the rules that others did. He had this campaign to take care of, and that's
what he was going to do, and that's what he did do.

RATHER: A few personal thoughts on the story we have reported tonight. We
shall continue to aggressively investigate the story of President Bush's
service in the National Guard, and the story of the documents and memos in
Colonel Killian's file. Are those documents authentic, as experts consulted
by cbs news continue to maintain?

Or were they forgeries or recreations, as marion carr knox and many other
believe? We will keep an open mind, and we will continue to report credible
evidence and responsible points of view as we try to answer the questions
raised about the authenticity of the documents.

Having said that, we do feel that it's important to underscore this point:
Those who have criticized aspects of our story have never criticized the
heart of it, the major thrust of our report: That George Bush received
preferential treatment to get into the National Guard, and, once accepted,
failed to satisfy the requirements of his service.

If we uncover any information to the contrary, rest assured we shall report
that also.





BUFDRVR

"Stay on the bomb run boys, I'm gonna get those bomb doors open if it

harelips
everyone on Bear Creek"



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Old September 25th 04, 11:29 AM
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"Leadfoot" wrote:
"BUFDRVR" wrote in message
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Leadfoot wrote:

That may be, but all the "aw ****s" in this case were fabrications.

Not according LtCol Killians secretary


Was this before or after her emotional out burst about Bush stealing the

2000
election and lying about Iraq? The reason this lady's statement about

the
forged documents was so believable was her rabid anti-Bush sentiment.



Read it and weep


No need, "her story" as a rabid bush hating democrat didn't exist until CBS
produced forged documents on the air.


  #24  
Old September 25th 04, 11:30 AM
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"Leadfoot" wrote:

"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message
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"Leadfoot" wrote in message
news:nK45d.334879$Oi.303137@fed1read04...

That may be, but all the "aw ****s" in this case were fabrications.


Not according LtCol Killians secretary


She also said they were fabrications. You need to find better sources

of
information.


Read it and weep


No need, "her story" as a rabid bush hating democrat didn't exist until CBS
produced forged documents on the air.



  #25  
Old September 25th 04, 01:57 PM
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"Leadfoot" wrote in message
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That may be, but all the "aw ****s" in this case were fabrications.


Not according LtCol Killians secretary


She also said they were fabrications. You need to find better sources of
information.


Read it and weep


Weep for what?

"In the past week, those documents have been subjected to extraordinary
scrutiny and criticism tonight, another voice-- a credible voice-- has
entered the debate. The woman who describes herself as colonel Killian's
right hand during much of the 1970s, Marion Carr Knox, colonel Killian's
secretary, flew to new york this afternoon to tell us she believes the
documents we obtained are not authentic."

She too says the documents are fabrications. You should actually read this
stuff before you post it. That may help you to appear to be less stupid.


  #26  
Old September 25th 04, 02:37 PM
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Leadfoot wrote:

Read it and weep


Why would I weep?

Or do you just want to only believe the parts ot the interview you like?


I believe the parts of the story that are credible.

Fact: Bush's OPRs signed by Killian that are undeniably genuine reflect a very
positive and complimentary opinion. We're now supposed to disregard those OPRs
and believe a rabid anti-Bush partisan when she says; "I remember typing up
reports like the forged ones"? Only someone with no ability to make an unbiased
judgement would believe an 86 year olds memory over actual documents.

She does
remember her boss, colonel Jerry Killian, being upset over mr. Bush's
failure to follow orders to take a physical.


You would think being a Commander's secretary for 20 years she would have
picked up on the fact that the SQ/CC *does not* issue orders for physicals. In
fact, there are no *orders* issued for physicals. You leftists have been told
this again and again, but you simply disregard it. Why?

RATHER: The country was at war. It's very unusual for a military officer,
particularly a flying officer, not to obey a direct order from his superior,
or if not, tell me.


What a joke Rather has become.


BUFDRVR

"Stay on the bomb run boys, I'm gonna get those bomb doors open if it harelips
everyone on Bear Creek"
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Old September 25th 04, 10:00 PM
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"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message
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"Leadfoot" wrote in message
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That may be, but all the "aw ****s" in this case were fabrications.


Not according LtCol Killians secretary


She also said they were fabrications. You need to find better sources

of
information.


Read it and weep


Weep for what?

"In the past week, those documents have been subjected to extraordinary
scrutiny and criticism tonight, another voice-- a credible voice-- has
entered the debate. The woman who describes herself as colonel Killian's
right hand during much of the 1970s, Marion Carr Knox, colonel Killian's
secretary, flew to new york this afternoon to tell us she believes the
documents we obtained are not authentic."

She too says the documents are fabrications. You should actually read

this
stuff before you post it. That may help you to appear to be less stupid.



KNOX: I know that i didn't type them. However, the information in those is
correct

Did you pass the third grade?

Poor little baby.







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Old September 25th 04, 10:15 PM
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"BUFDRVR" wrote in message
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Leadfoot wrote:

Read it and weep


Why would I weep?

Or do you just want to only believe the parts ot the interview you like?


I believe the parts of the story that are credible.

Fact: Bush's OPRs signed by Killian that are undeniably genuine reflect a

very
positive and complimentary opinion. We're now supposed to disregard those

OPRs
and believe a rabid anti-Bush partisan when she says; "I remember typing

up
reports like the forged ones"? Only someone with no ability to make an

unbiased
judgement would believe an 86 year olds memory over actual documents.



You don't know one officer who had great OER's and then suddenly went to
****? That never happens?


She does
remember her boss, colonel Jerry Killian, being upset over mr. Bush's
failure to follow orders to take a physical.


You would think being a Commander's secretary for 20 years she would have
picked up on the fact that the SQ/CC *does not* issue orders for

physicals. In
fact, there are no *orders* issued for physicals. You leftists have been

told
this again and again, but you simply disregard it. Why?


There aren't orders issued for things you are suppose to do. It's only when
you DON'T do them that the tactic of making it an order comes up.

You might remember I was in the same Air Force as you albeit at a different
time.

BTW I knew it was a fake when I saw CYA. the term normally used is "Memo
for the record"



RATHER: The country was at war. It's very unusual for a military officer,
particularly a flying officer, not to obey a direct order from his

superior,
or if not, tell me.


What a joke Rather has become.


You know it takes just one **** up by an airman to kill you in that B-52 you
fly, right? Probably wouldn't be your fault but an accident board can
easily blame you anyway.



BUFDRVR

"Stay on the bomb run boys, I'm gonna get those bomb doors open if it

harelips
everyone on Bear Creek"



  #30  
Old September 26th 04, 12:34 AM
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Leadfoot wrote:

KNOX: I know that i didn't type them. However, the information in those is
correct

Did you pass the third grade?


Only someone in the 3rd grade would believe a bitter, rabid old woman over
actual genuine documents that counter her "memory". You may have passed the 3rd
grade, but your logic process hasn't. CBS (and apparently you) *needed* her to
say that so they could point the blow torch away from them and back on Bush. It
didn't work because previously released Bush OPRs signed by Killian gave him
very good reviews.

If you had a brain that reasoned without your incredible bias, you'de see how
ridiculous the CBS (and your) argument is.


BUFDRVR

"Stay on the bomb run boys, I'm gonna get those bomb doors open if it harelips
everyone on Bear Creek"
 




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