destroyed

[Dan Scanlan <dscanlan@xxxxxxx>]

I don't want anyone sending my daughters into war, especially this
smirking son of an a-hole.

Dan Scanlan

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BUSH AIDES ACCUSED OF DESTROYING MILITARY DOCUMENTS

Just four days after pledging to open up his entire military file,
President Bush has reneged on the pledge, with "Administration
officials declining yesterday to commit to releasing further records"
on top of the inconclusive ones they have already released.
Additionally, new charges have surfaced that Bush actually deployed
his Texas gubernatorial staff to destroy incriminating records.

As first reported by the Dallas Morning News, retired National Guard
Lt. Col. Bill Burkett said that, in 1997, Joe Allbaugh (chief of
staff for then-Governor Bush) told the National Guard chief to get
the Bush file and make certain "there's not anything there that will
embarrass the governor." Burkett said that a few days later at Camp
Mabry in Austin, he "saw Mr. Bush's file and documents from it
discarded in a trash can."

While the White House has claimed the attack is baseless, Burkett's
credibility was bolstered today after the New York Times reported
that he made his complaint known right after the incident. In 1998,
he sent a letter to a member of the Texas State Senate saying Bush
and his aides improperly reviewed the file to "make sure nothing will
embarrass the governor during his re-election campaign." Burkett
repeated in interviews this week that Bush and his aides "ordered
Guard officials to remove damaging information from Mr. Bush's
military personnel files."

Yesterday, the commander of the Alabama unit Bush claimed he served
in during his year-long absence said "[Bush] never did come to my
squad. He was never at my unit." Additionally, in a signed report,
commanding officers in Houston said Bush "has not been observed." In
order to clear up the controversy, the president would have to follow
through on his Sunday pledge to release all of his records rather
than continue stonewalling.

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