A couple of other observations from the Houston Chronicle article:

- Lt. Col. Burkett said he saw the Lt. Bush's files in the trash at a museum at Camp Mabry in Austin, Texas. That is a strange place for personnel records to be stored. As we know, there is a facility in Colorado (the disciplinary unit [/sarcasm]) that holds these type of records.

- Lt. Col. Burkett compared President Bush to Hitler just before the Iraq War in 2003, thus invoking Godwin's Law.

If they files were purged they WOULD NOT just throw the records in the trash! They would have been shredded. This is elementary in this sort of activity.

calpundit should be ashamed of himself... the lengths to which the fringe left has gone, and will likely continue to go, is barely just this side of seditious.

there was a time that this type of behavior was recognized for what it is.

personally, i'm looking forward to the moment the president's gloves come off.

his positions are defensible. and the offensive being mounted against him and his administration will ultimately be dismissed as a matter of course.

rob.

I am looking forward to what kerry did with the winter soldier investigation to come out. fake vets giving fake stories about war crimes.

General Giap in his memoirs thanks kerry by saying that without organisations like Kerry's he would have surendered.

That speaks directly to character issues. bad ones.

Is kerry the one the Dems want for preesident during these times.

On the eve of War in Iraq, the New York Times obsessed repeatedly on its front page about the Augusta Country Club. No matter how furiously they insisted, they couldn't force anybody to care. Now they and their clones are cramming the Bush/AWOL slander down our throats.

There was a time when Big Media could perpetrate journalistic fraud with impunity. The October Surprise comes to mind. But their credibility erodes with every concocted "scandal". More and more, serious readers will look elsewhere for serious journalism.

a recent poll by te washington post shows that the american public thinks the story is not important and also out of line. This is not just republicans but democrats and independents.

So, why are they force feeding this story to the public. When does the separating point between the media and the DNC end?

"When does the separating point between the media and the DNC end?"

There's a difference between the two?

D'oh!!

you're right of course.

The funny thing is many of the anti Bush commentators on Kevin's site sound just like all the pro Dean commentators on Dean's blog. Small world, small minds.

It is probably worth noting that, in all the posts on the blogsphere, I've been unable to find a creditable serviceman who disputes the President's story.

This story has such poor legs because practically every person in the service has, at one time, had a similar paperwork problem. I dare say the one major complaint about the military (beside the pay, the food, the hours, well, never mind) is the paperwork. And this goes for family members as well, many of whom have also had to deal with the black hole of records.

BTW, have the gang over at Calpundit finally given up the borderline insane idea that the ARF is a place for punishing people?

Anyone read Larry David's op-ed in the NYT. He is the producer of Seinfeld and acts in his own series called "Curb your enthusiasm".

He wrote a really sarcastic screed about his service in the National Guard during the Vietnam war. If you read this, you see the contempt he feels for all national guardsmen.