-->>Wieder mal was Tolles aus dem weißen Haus. Bush kontert: ja - ich stand nachweislich auf der Gehaltsliste der Armee! Zum totlachen!
Bush releases Vietnam-era Guard records
White House calls revival of questions about duty ‘a shame’
“These records I’m holding here clearly document the president fulfilling his duties,” White House press secretary Scott McClellan said at a briefing for reporters Tuesday afternoon, seeking to put an end to a controversy that has sidetracked the Bush team as his re-election effort gathers steam.
The documents, in the form of annual retirement ”point summaries” and payroll records, indicate that Bush received credit for nine days of active duty between May 1972 and May 1973, the period that Democrats have cited as evidence that Bush shirked his military responsibilities.
The release of the documents comes a day after the White House indicated that it knew of no additional records to document Bush’s service in the Texas Air National Guard. McClellan said the White House learned of the new records Monday night.
Bush left the National Guard with an honorable discharge eight months shy of the obligatory six years in 1973, to attend Harvard Business School.
Asked earlier in the day whether the records should end the controversy about Bush’s service, McClellan told reporters, “You have to ask those who made these outrageous accusations if they stand by them in the face of this documentation that demonstrates he served and fulfilled his duties.”
McClellan said he did not know whether tax returns for 1972 and 1973 still existed to substantiate that Bush actually was paid, as the payroll records indicated. But he said additional information would be disclosed if it came to light.
However, McClellan sidestepped questions about why medical records that Bush would have had to have maintained during his service could not be produced, repeating that the pay documents established Bush’s fulfillment of his commitment.
Und in einem anderen Bericht habe ich geelsen,daß sich sein texanischer Brigadegeneral nicht an ihn erinnern würde, obwohl er ihm wie jeder Texaner in Alabama ganz bestimmt aufgefallen wäre
Also ein Hoch auf den Kriegshelden
<ul> ~ Quelle: MSNBC</ul>
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