10/05/2004

OK... so you're SURE there are no more files?

from AP:

National Guard Hands Over More Bush Papers
By MATT KELLEY, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - More than a week after a court-imposed deadline to turn over all records of President Bush (news - web sites)'s military service, the Texas Air National Guard belatedly produced two documents Tuesday that include Bush's orders for his last day of active duty in 1973.


Aside from the fact that the government has been withholding and, for all we know, continues to withhold documents that could clarify the President's stint in the Texas Air National Guard, the article itself is misleading. The reporter repeatedly uses the phrase "active duty". This is a designation reserved for members of the four primary branches of the military: Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines (you remember the commercials, don't you?). Reserve and Guard personnel are not Active Duty and are not entitled, among other things, to join the American Legion upon their discharge.

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