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Bush accuser Burkett exposed as a fraud with an axe to grind!
Truth told on Bush accuser
Boston Globe reporter Michael Rezendes today exposes the allegations that Retired Lt. Col. Bill Burkett has been making about the President’s military records as baseless attacks. George O. Conn, a friend and associate of Burkett’s, goes on the record to set the story straight.
For at least six years, a retired Texas National Guard officer has maintained that President Bush's record as a member of the Guard was purged of potentially embarrassing material at the behest of high-ranking Bush aides laying the groundwork for Bush's 2000 run for the presidency.
Retired Lieutenant Colonel Bill Burkett, who has been pressing his charges in the national news media this week, says he even heard one high-ranking officer issue a 1997 order to sanitize the Bush file, and later saw another officer poring over the records and discovered that some had been discarded.
But a key witness to some of the events described by Burkett has told the Globe that the central elements of his story are false.
George O. Conn, a former chief warrant officer with the Guard and a friend of Burkett's, is the person whom Burkett says led him to the room where the Bush records were being vetted. But Conn says he never saw anyone combing through the Bush file or discarding records.
"I have no recall of that," Conn said. "I have no recall of that whatsoever. None. Zip. Nada."
Burkett's allegations about the Bush records come as the White House is attempting to answer mounting questions about whether Bush fulfilled his obligations as a member of the Texas Air Guard during the early 1970s. Burkett's allegations also will be a major focus of a book on Bush to be published next month.
But the book's author, James Moore, a former Houston TV news correspondent, concedes he never interviewed some of the key players who could have verified Burkett's charges, including Conn and retired National Guard Colonel John Scribner -- the officer Burkett says he saw removing items from the Bush file.
Conn contradicts most of Burkett's rendition. He said that he remembers introducing Burkett to Scribner at the museum but that Scribner never said he was going over the Bush file. "If he had said he was going through George W. Bush's records I would have dropped my teeth. Wow," Conn said. "I would definitely have remembered that. I don't recall that at all."
Burkett also says that, before the encounter with Scribner, he was standing with a group of Guard officers, and heard a ranking officer order Scribner to review the Bush file and remove any documents that might be embarrassing to the then-governor.
But Scribner told the Globe yesterday that no such thing occurred. "It didn't happen. I wasn't even there," Scribner said.
Burkett has, in the past, raised his allegations about the Bush records as part of his personal struggle with the Guard over medical benefits.[Reality Hammer]
6:46:00 PM 
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Prepare for the impostors!
A regular feature of Democrat campaign is the legion of imposters who storm Republican and conservative groups, both online and offline.
They claim to be "lifelong" Republicans and/or conservatives but have now decided to vote Democrat, all because of .
We saw them in 1992. They claimed that Bush 41 was sending the United States into bankruptcy. We saw them in 1996, pretending to desire Clinton's re-election over voting for Dole. We saw them in 2000, "supporting" McCain over Bush. And we are about to see them again, supposedly outraged over something Bush has done.
These impostors are usually easy to expose. While claiming to have been Republicans all their lives, their favorite politicians are FDR, Truman, etc. They hate Reagan (!) and of course, President Bush.
Keep an eye out for them, they will start posting soon! [Reality Hammer]
6:41:19 PM
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The Lying (Socialist) Weasels
In 1996 I coined the term lying weasels to identify the most egregious abusers of truth. At the time the King of the lying weasels was Byrant Gumbel, for his nasty lies about the Republicans and their alleged "disrespect" of Ron Brown. The lying weasels shared the trait of being proud of their lies, and like Bill Clinton, showed absolutely no remorse when caught in a lie.[Reality Hammer]
6:37:37 PM
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A Love Note To Big Media....
I'm sick of hearing about George Bush's military record. The documents are released. A guy has come out now who remembers him, a superior officer, a guy whose wife remembers her husband telling her about meeting young Bush. There is... [suburban blight]
It's not nice to make the blight mad especially on Valentines day. CP
4:40:33 PM
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WaPo registration
Great stuff for those of you who understand it - pat, pat, ... ouch! that hurts to reach back there! Why didn't I think of it? - becacuse I'm too busy wasting time with this stupid blog!
[USS Clueless]
3:40:41 PM
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Conan and Triumph Insult French Canadians
Poor Babies!
If you've read this blog before, then you would probably know that I have referenced Triumph - The Insult Comic Dog several times. He's a guest on Conan O'Brien's late night show and he's really done it this time. Good.... [Blackfive - The Paratrooper of Love]
Let me make sure I have this straight. It's ok for comics all over the world to dis the U.S. continuously but it's not ok to make fun of anything Canadian? Did I get that right?
Listen up people....It's a freaking comedy show! It's what comedians do for a living! Bite Me!
Buy the way....I like Triumph. He reminds me of myself. Where else can you go now days and hear non PC comedy. They will shut Triumph up soon and then to make a living he will have to either retire or start doing only the droll sugary PC crap that passes for comedy now. CP
3:28:16 PM
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Spinning Reality
Good piece today by Victor Davis Hanson. Here's the end. Go read the beginning. For all the most recent invective about his lack of spontaneous televised eloquence, almost every necessary and dangerous initiative Mr. Bush has undertaken since 9/11 —... [Wizblog]
9:16:22 AM
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Balls
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said that the slaughters in Yugoslavia and Rwanda in the 1990s could have been prevented if the world had taken action as he addressed the first international genocide conference in over 50 years. [Silent Running]
9:05:09 AM
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Diamonds....that'll shut her up!
BPM 37093. Wow! If you really love your wife, here's something you might want to start saving up for. Scientists have discovered a big diamond. A really big diamond. A 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 carat diamond. In other news, the simultaneous orgasm experienced by worldwide... [DiscountBlogger]
8:05:24 AM
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ABC Conducts Another Useless Poll
The headline says, "Bush's Approval At All Time Low!" The media knows that many don't bother reading past the headlines...it's another trick they play to get the reader scanner to buy into what they want you to believe. [Serenity's Journal]
7:57:00 AM
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