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2004-09-12 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Lee Harvey Oswald 2004-09-12 4:14:55 AM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 bet he's got Office 2000 too...

Posted by Frank G 2004-09-12 11:25:08 AM|| 2004-09-12 11:25:08 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 ...and forgot about how old-fashioned typewriters worked!

Posted by BigEd 2004-09-12 11:35:47 AM|| 2004-09-12 11:35:47 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 I'll bet that Dan Rather has a copy of Microsoft Office too! :~)

Posted by A Jackson 2004-09-12 11:39:33 AM|| 2004-09-12 11:39:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 This is a good fit.

It also lets both CBS and Kerry off the hook.

How convenient.

OK guys, this one is who the MSM will zoom in on. Now lets be damned sure to tie him to Moveon.org and Soros. Crank up the search engines, and start following the money.

Thats how to get the best we can out of this particular situation - as well as calling for a full and formal ON-AIR apology to President Bush from Dan Rather and CBS News.

Posted by OldSpook 2004-09-12 11:49:29 AM|| 2004-09-12 11:49:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Busted. Ra^ther is next.

Posted by Chris W. 2004-09-12 11:50:47 AM|| 2004-09-12 11:50:47 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Dennis Adams, another left wing flackey defending "Can't Operate MS Word" Burkett.

Old National Guard Records of two GWB arrests?
Stealing wreath (stupid prank)
and "Rowdiness" at a Yale-Princeton football game (This disqualifies how many others who attended Yale--Princeton football games in the last 125 years from being president?)

Then there are the traffic tickets. And?
Bush 41 was probably pissed about the increased insurance premiums, but, this makes "W" EVIL? Ha! . . .

Lefty Blog Hyperventilating

Messers Burkett and Adams can't contain themselves. They need to get a brown paper bag and breathe deeply before they pass out.

Posted by BigEd 2004-09-12 11:51:16 AM|| 2004-09-12 11:51:16 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Cracker Barrel Philosopher has a post on Mary Mapes - 60 minutes producer - selectively interviewing to back their story - she's the contact to the forger, and must resign with Gunga Dan

Posted by Frank G 2004-09-12 11:53:31 AM|| 2004-09-12 11:53:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Trouble ahead for Bush, it has recently surfaced that he was issued a speeding ticket when he was 19. Talk about blatant disregard for authority. This man clearly shows, by this despicable act, he is unfit to lead the nation.
Never mind that he led the United States in 2 wars in 4 years and fought a worldwide war on terror.
Even Dan Rather agrees, that John Kerry who beached his boat and effectively nullified both manuerability and all fire power from bringing to bear on the enemy during his ~~2 week~~ 4 month tour of duty in Vietnam is much more fit to command the entire US Armed Forces. (But only after he has purged it of all weapon systems.)
In other developing news, alleged High School classmates of Bush have revealed that he skipped a day of class. When our reporter tried to reach these classmates for further details he was told that the classmates were to busy organizing an upcoming Kerry rally for the Kerry campaign to respond, but that a George Carnival will be issuing a response in a matter of days.

Posted by 98zulu 2004-09-12 12:22:12 PM|| 2004-09-12 12:22:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Good one 98Z.

BTW, which way did you get to Z: C, G or J... or, from the old 05 side of the house - duffie or kilo... (God forbid you were a hawg)?

Somehow I don't see G - you don't sound like the type to keep Startrek posters in your barracks room (snicker). And you're not drunk often enought to be a hawg. You sound like a Charlie to me.

Posted by OldSpook 2004-09-12 12:38:09 PM|| 2004-09-12 12:38:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 The Boston ~~Goebbels~~ Globe ran this story on Burkett four months ago. It seems that lurid claims about Bush's Guard records have been a staple of his career as a far-left shill for the last six years. Unlike the Globe's coverage of the Guard docs, this article is actually fairly skeptical of Burkett's claims, at least pointing out that there is nothing but his word to back them up. This, of course, is everything to far left conformists but may not be convincing to those who do not regard appeal to authority as a definitive test of truth.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-09-12 12:53:08 PM|| 2004-09-12 12:53:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Trouble ahead for Bush, it has recently surfaced that he was issued a speeding ticket when he was 19.

Just like 2000. This will be a top news item the Thursday before the election. And, it's easier than last time.

This time, the candidate is the eccentric man with a funny hat, and to add incredulity, given to him by a CIA man in Cambodia! WOW!

Posted by BigEd 2004-09-12 12:55:47 PM|| 2004-09-12 12:55:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 You mean Rove didn't do it? But McAuliffe said we should look to Rove. Terry wouldn't be wrong, would he? Would he??!!

Posted by nada 2004-09-12 12:58:48 PM|| 2004-09-12 12:58:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 wrong? How about lying? again and again....

Posted by Frank G 2004-09-12 1:01:15 PM|| 2004-09-12 1:01:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 I think the house of cards will collapse Tuesday or Wednesday, with Dan tearfully making a non-confession admitting that, yes, the docs are obvious fakes but that others are at fault, CBS maintains the highest possible standards, blah blah.
He will then offer his resignation and retire (as he planned anyway) going out in a blaze of glory to join the LLL pantheon as a martyr to the "free press." It will be a major barf moment but ultimately a crucial defeat for the MSM in the ongoing revolution against their 40 year reign of cultural terror.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-09-12 1:06:08 PM|| 2004-09-12 1:06:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Critical Update:
Axis media front collapses!
The Boston Globe has turned against CBS and hit them hard on the doc scandal:
New doubt cast on Guard documents

The rats are abandoning the sinking ship and it may not last till Tuesday.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-09-12 1:13:38 PM|| 2004-09-12 1:13:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Memo to Bill Burkett:

If you are going to forge a 'document' from 1973. Go to a Flea Market and buy a freakin' IBM Selectric! My AF Reserve Unit had hundreds of them until 1992!

Jack.

Posted by Jack Deth 2004-09-12 1:14:59 PM|| 2004-09-12 1:14:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 Now lets be damned sure to tie him to Moveon.org and Soros. Crank up the search engines, and start following the money. Thats how to get the best we can out of this particular situation - as well as calling for a full and formal ON-AIR apology to President Bush from Dan Rather and CBS News.

I haven't really gone over this material too much but here are links with extensive material and interviews concerning William Burkett:

Here

Here

Here

Here

from the above link:

Burkett boils it down to a simple question: "Why didn't Governor Bush simply release his military pay files and retirement points accounting records, which are the only official records that will show that he satisfactorily and honorably completed his service commitment?"

The simple answer may be that these records would prove the opposite - that Bush never reported for duty after April 1972, and was simply "given" the points he needed for discharge by senior officers who wanted to preserve his "political viability" then - and now.

Looks like someone did try to provide 'proof.'

Sorry, OS. It appears that Newsweak's rube of honor is stating things as he sees them, and some third party (The Kerry camp, maybe?) tried to create 'proof' to bolster those claims.

Being an intelligent person, however, my question would be, why such an obvious forgery? Assuming someone on the left did it, why try to tag Burkett with ithis fraud? Why not make the person who actually did put together these documents fall on their own sword? Are the left really that dumb?

After reading several articles, I dont think Col. Burkett can be tied to anything political. The only political link he had to the left was he got his reappointment to the Texas ANG during the Cliton administration, but he served the same time as Gov. Bush.

Posted by badanov 2004-09-12 1:16:33 PM|| [http://www.rkka.org] 2004-09-12 1:16:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 More on Burkett:

Burkett, who now lives near Abilene, retired from the National Guard in 1999 after more than 28 years of service because of medical reasons. He was involved in a lawsuit against the Guard over his medical benefits, which he lost on appeal, he said.
Burkett describes himself as a Democrat, but he said he doesnât necessarily back Democratic presidential front-runner John Kerry.

from: Kilgore

Posted by badanov 2004-09-12 1:22:51 PM|| [http://www.rkka.org] 2004-09-12 1:22:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 Oopsies!, My bad.

from the article:

The issue here is not that Bill Burkett is a liberal. It isn't even that he is left wing. The issue is that he is loony left. We are in "precious bodily fluids " territory. I'm not calling Burkett a Democrat because I think he is too far left to be a Democrat. This is the left wing version of the John Birch Society.

Not only are Bill Burkett's politics loony left but he is trying to be a political player, writing editorials and trying to sway the American people against George Bush and the Republican Party.

Burkett's politics are certainly not common among members of any military service. Given this, isn't it a pretty amazing coincidence that someone with his political views just happened to be in the right place to overhear people talking about cleansing Bush's files?

Did Burkett get lucky or is he lying to promote his political agenda?

Posted by badanov 2004-09-12 1:26:52 PM|| [http://www.rkka.org] 2004-09-12 1:26:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 One other note before I head back to the machine shop:

General Jack D. Ripper is my personal movie hero.

I will never forget the line: ...communist infiltration, communist indoctrination and the international communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious body fluids.

Priceless!

Posted by badanov 2004-09-12 1:30:15 PM|| [http://www.rkka.org] 2004-09-12 1:30:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 Burkett on the Iraq war (Veterans for Peace, March 19, 2003):

I've sat in total grief for the past three years, watching the institutions of America being spent as if they were lottery winnings.
As I said, a UN vote would not stop GW Bush from attacking Iraq. Nor will anything else. And weapons of mass destruction will be discovered in great quantities; but the entire affair will stink to high heavens because it will be as staged as the White House press conference you just viewed.

The human death toll will publicly not be mentioned, yet in truth, it will far exceed 120,000. Our vast size and force will quickly break the back of any Iraqi resistance, yet we will not break their spirit. This is a society which has learned to live in troubled politics. They will go about their business while seething inside. There will be small uprisings, but they will quickly be crushed. The emotion and anger that we will have built will spill over into other countries and meld like an alloy with other problem areas of the Middle East, becoming a deeper seated problem. We will have insured that America's dynasty is nearing an end.

(the above also includes a lot about Burkett's medical problems and his claims about W's records.)

Bush's Iraq Attack Risks Reaction (August 23, 2002):

The debate about Iraq is really not about Saddam Hussein. It is a debate about countering the threat of the US challenges to the rest of the World.
...
The collapse of the Soviet 'bear' significantly contributed to Bush I's scheme to encourage Iraq to invade Kuwait.
...
But Bush's abrupt withdrawal from the Kyoto process signaled that the US crossed the line from legitimate national interest into imperialism...

This isn't just left, it is the moonbat version of tinfoil, precious bodily fluids territory.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-09-12 1:41:34 PM|| 2004-09-12 1:41:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#22 AARRRGGHHH! Berserk coding. Please delete above if possible.
Trying again:

Badanov
The same Friedman article you link to quotes Burkett as buying into a red-hot academic histori-lie, the supposed "Bombing of Tulsa" in 1921:

"That's right, [the Texas redistricting is] the same concept that was tried in South Africa within the past 30 years. It's also the root of the Tulsa massacres in which "black districts" were eventually attacked by the Oklahoma National Guard and the police. "

The link to the original source is unfortunately dead. During the 1921 riots, some locals (possibly police) tossed a few sticks sticks of dyanmite into the black neighborhood from one or more civilian light planes. The current Lefty version completely ignores the documented details and uses extravagant hyperbole to invite the conclusion that the whole area was carpet-bombed by the Army Air Corps, no doubt with napalm and daisy-cutters.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-09-12 2:11:21 PM|| 2004-09-12 2:11:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#23 OS et al:

The more I read about Veterans for Peace, which Burkett is a member of, the worse my chills get.

This is part is several socialist/communist organizations, including the International Socailist Organization, the Communist Party USA and Socialist Party, Green Peace, and etc; in other words, groups dedicated to socialism.

The scary thing is that if CBS got their documents from Burkett via the Kerry camp, it means that Kerry has strong ties to domestic communist orgaizations, including his old Viet Nam Vertans against the War.

Scary stuff, folks.

Posted by badanov 2004-09-12 2:57:33 PM|| [http://www.rkka.org] 2004-09-12 2:57:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#24 It wasn't Burkett, it was either Ben Barnes or Rather's own daughter.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-09-12 2:58:02 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/] 2004-09-12 2:58:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#25 "I don't avoid women, Mandrake - but I do deny them my essence."

Posted by mojo 2004-09-12 3:13:45 PM|| 2004-09-12 3:13:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#26 Somehow I don't see G - you don't sound like the type to keep Startrek posters in your barracks room (snicker)

I was 98G Russian/Polish . . . I guarantee you I didn't have ST posters in my barracks room. More like Hendrix and Morrison posters.

I think you're thinking of the 98C (analyst?!?, hah!) ; }

Posted by spiffo 2004-09-12 3:19:37 PM|| 2004-09-12 3:19:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#27 From the Globe article
it contacted Hodges Friday evening only to find that Hodges believes the documents are inauthentic.

Interesting word.

Posted by Shipman 2004-09-12 3:25:58 PM|| 2004-09-12 3:25:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#28 I once sad to say wrote an inauthentic check and was mildly chastised.

Posted by Shipman 2004-09-12 3:27:19 PM|| 2004-09-12 3:27:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#29 Here is something Burkett wrote on August 14th of this year (scroll all the way down)): ... Of the files that I saw within the 15 gallon waste can were numerous documents which detailed why 1LT George Bush was grounded from flying including a two-page counseling statement signed by LTC Jerry Killian. ...

This direct reference, on Aug-14, to the two documents CBS has been using could indicate the source of the forgeries.

Posted by Kalle (kafir forever) 2004-09-12 4:27:03 PM|| [http://radio.weblogs.com/0103811/categories/currentEvents/] 2004-09-12 4:27:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#30 "why try to tag Burkett with this fraud?"

Because:

a) it gets Kerry off the hook for being connected to the fabrication.
b) it gets CBS off the hook for fabricating the docs.

It "fits" with what MSM wants - a nice tidy package of an "outsider with a grudge". They can sell that rather than admit culpability due to their ingrained ideology (Rather) and tacit links to the Kerry Campaign (Barnes, et alia).

Thats why I suspect Burkett is your media designated scapegoat. Him and the producer that interviewd people (and discarded the interviews with Killians wife & son).

Posted by OldSpook 2004-09-12 4:32:07 PM|| 2004-09-12 4:32:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#31 forgot to add - 98Z you have your head on straight for a Golf. I'm an analyst now after being a field type, so naturally I assumed you were the analyst type. And yeah, Startrek posters probably fit some of them well (admitting that I was a Trekie too - loved the original gang Kirk Spock McCoy and Scotty). Something about being at DLI for 60+ weeks that messes up your head if you are in one of the "odd" language groups.

Posted by OldSpook 2004-09-12 4:37:46 PM|| 2004-09-12 4:37:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#32 The evidence against Burkett also matters, OS. Speculation about motives for a frame-up is useless without some evidence that there has actually been a frame-up.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-09-12 4:42:39 PM|| 2004-09-12 4:42:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#33 And the W. stands for.... WRather... Wimp Ass WRather and the rest of the MsM who's days are done and they know it. What entertainment...

Posted by Constitutional Individualist 2004-09-12 4:48:39 PM|| 2004-09-12 4:48:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#34 My opinion on the chain of provenance:
DNC (expressed requirement)--->Barnes (contacted Burkett and arranged payment)--->Burkett(fabrication possibly outsourced to UT lefties)--->DNC (back through Barnes)---->Mapes (CBS TX)-----> Rather (CBS NY)

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-09-12 4:51:17 PM|| 2004-09-12 4:51:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#35 Please explain something to this engineer. If I was to commit a crime or sting I would know I could be hurt so I would do my research on every part and do it right. Why do the Democrats always execute such amature hatchet jobs?
It doesn't take too much to do it right.

Posted by 3dc 2004-09-12 5:19:53 PM|| 2004-09-12 5:19:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#36 Does anyone other than me notice that the LLL has descended to the same schizoid conspiracy level as the Moonbats of Islam.

The LLL believes:
- the Killian documents are not forgeries
- Bush people created the forgeries to trick CBS

The Moonbats of Islam believe:
- The 911 attacks were the just revenge of Allah
- The Jews were behind these attacks

Posted by mhw 2004-09-12 5:20:27 PM|| 2004-09-12 5:20:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#37 They can sell that rather than admit culpability due to their ingrained ideology (Rather) and tacit links to the Kerry Campaign (Barnes, et alia). Thats why I suspect Burkett is your media designated scapegoat. Him and the producer that interviewd people (and discarded the interviews with Killians wife & son).

If a link between Barnes and Burkett can be established, the Kerry campaign is in deep, deep, deep trouble because that is incontrovertible evidence that Kerry is anti-defense pro-appeasement pro socialist campiagn. The weight of all this should be the final element that wrecks the Kerry campaign; and the sooner the better.

It's that they chose this fella to be their scapegoat that is their problem now, since he and his ties to leftist organizations provides what I consider a devastating political hot ptotato that not even J Fn Kerry can 'nuance.'

Posted by badanov 2004-09-12 5:32:16 PM|| [http://www.rkka.org/title-boris.gif] 2004-09-12 5:32:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#38 mhw
Left-wing political activism is based on a kind of alternate epistomology, one in which authority (usually expressed as "credibility") trumps facts or logic, especially if the latter are merely technical in nature. Post-modern linguists will say as much. At every step in this fraud's journey, the perceived credibility of the preceding source was so great that no checks were thought necessary. By the time it reached Rather, his conviction of their authenticity was probably so great that nobody would do the checks for fear of offending him.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-09-12 5:33:44 PM|| 2004-09-12 5:33:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#39 Atomic
so Rather = Mullah

similar to

Dialectical Materialism = God
and
Marx = Messiah

Posted by mhw 2004-09-12 5:42:39 PM|| 2004-09-12 5:42:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#40 To clarify, we can consider the case of the hypothetical Burkett--->Barnes--->DNC---Rather provenance. Barnes would initially judge the passability of the documents on the basis of Burkett's credentials (retired officer, activist, etc.). The DNC would then accept the docs from Barnes on the basis of Barnes' activism, contributions, and long-standing reputation as a shrewd and ruthless inside operator. The DNC then passes the docs to Rather, adding its own credibility to the cumulative total. Rather, an authoritarian personality in a business that trades on authority, would accept this as completely unimpeachable, believing that his own godlike media authority would either keep questions from arising at all or quickly settle the issue for the public. He miscalculated, authoritarians often do. It is called hubris.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-09-12 5:43:20 PM|| 2004-09-12 5:43:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#41 mhw
Exactly, except that Rather is more of an Ayatollah than a mullah.
In many ways, media-left conformity is a religion, with its own icons, creation myths, dogma, priesthood, and sacred texts. See Thomas Franks' The Conquest of Cool.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-09-12 5:49:09 PM|| 2004-09-12 5:49:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#42 I think the best theory Iâve heard to date, is that the âDocumentsâ came to Dan the
Newsman by way of his daughter Robin. It makes sense really. Given the ruthless nature
of journoâs like Rather, it would explain his behavior.

Dan is going to maintain his: âThatâs my story, and Iâm sticking to it!â posture to the
bitter end. He is protecting his daughter. There is NO WAY that Dan and CBS havenât
figured out by now that theyâve been had.

The Law of Unintended Consequences:

I believe this was done by operatives within the DNC hoping to do a âSwifty Vetsâ style
job on the GWB. I doubt that it ever occurred to them that what they would do is scuttle
themselves and destroy the last shreds of credibility that the MSM had at the same time.

You can think of this event as being equivalent to the Titanicsâ glancing blow with the
iceberg. As someone else said: âThere is no place else to go from here, but ugly!â.

Posted by CiT 2004-09-12 6:42:30 PM|| 2004-09-12 6:42:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#43 In my own not so humble opinion, the docs were done by someone too young to be aware of the difference between typewriters and word processors and who never served in the military. Typewriters are pretty much extinct now and anyone under 30 or so would have always used a word processor. Anyone familiar with the military would not have punctuated the abbreviations the way they appear. Stir in a little of that rabid idealism young folks are prone to, and you have the whole recipe. We must destroy the Evil BushHitler(tm) by any means, fair or foul!

As an alternate theory, the culprit was just too stoopid to know or care about the details.

Posted by SteveS 2004-09-12 7:07:27 PM|| 2004-09-12 7:07:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#44 Ahhh, but 3dc, you are an engineer. If you had done it, Kerry would already have replaced Bush at the helm, based on the information in your documents.

Thank goodness the inclinations of you and your fellows don't run in that direction!

Posted by trailing wife 2004-09-12 7:23:14 PM|| 2004-09-12 7:23:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#45 If tomorrow, shareholders of Viacom/CBS inundate switchboards so that the board has to react.

I.E., Get 'em out or else! Then there will be a reconing. Arrogant Dan is so delusional that only being told he's out and having a senior CBS/Viacom official open the newscast with apologies before Rather's replacement starts to read the rest of the news will suffice.

Enough is enough.

And if the DNC Bozos start to delusionally go after the Bush Guard record, then fairgame is the Winter Soldier intimidations, and threats against senators at a meeting where Kerry attended become currency.

Enough is enough.

Posted by BigEd 2004-09-12 9:06:15 PM|| 2004-09-12 9:06:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#46 Just heard Barnes daughter on Fox in an interview - she said her father was lying, this was not the first time he had lied about something substantive, and she believed he was lying to try to help Kerry.

Posted by OldSpook 2004-09-12 9:27:31 PM|| 2004-09-12 9:27:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#47 I'm buying just 1 share of VIA tomorrow. Just so I can hit the stockholder's line. Heh.

Posted by OldSpook 2004-09-12 9:30:48 PM|| 2004-09-12 9:30:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#48 VIAb by the way...

and here's a nice tidbit from Newsmax (take with a LARGE grain of salt - Newsmax is the National Enquirer of the Right). Its along the lines of "What did the Kerry Campaign know and when did they know it"....

Sunday, Sept. 12, 2004 10:18 a.m. EDT
CBS Won't Deny Kerry Link to Forged Docs

In a development that could have devastating implications for John Kerry's presidential campaign, CBS News is refusing to say whether the top Democrat, his campaign aides or any other prominent party officials had anything to do with supplying "60 Minutes" with a National Guard memo about President Bush that experts say was forged..

Asked about a Kerry connection to the forged memo, a senior CBS official told the New York Post, "I can't answer that question."

The unnamed CBS executive then promptly hung up.

Posted by OldSpook 2004-09-12 9:40:42 PM|| 2004-09-12 9:40:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#49 Old Spook:

Reading the Newsmax article, I can only assume that Carlm Limbaucher and/or the NewsMax staff were the interviewers who asked this unnamed CBS executive this question. The article doesn't say.

Geez, I'd wish they would name the exec, so we can know. Less a matter of fairness than accuracy, I can't credit the story without someone going on the record.

Anyways, in the interests of strategerizing, let us say they ( meaning anyone ) actually gets a statement from CBS that the Kerry camp was in the 'chain of provenence'; that they actually helped in getting the document to CBS, then it is over. Kerry can be truthfully and finally painted as a dangerous leftist radical who can't give up his old leftist habits for national security.

They can flail away at Bush for his National Guard service all they want, which apparently they will do this coming week; You can stick a fork in him: Kerry is done.

Posted by badanov 2004-09-12 10:25:09 PM|| [http://www.rkka.org/title-boris.gif] 2004-09-12 10:25:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#50 This has Kerry's 'MO' all over it.

In 68 he reveived his 1st purple heard based on 'forged' enemy fire. His Bronzed Star based on a false after-action report based on non-existent enemy fire (he wrote). And his 3rd Purple heart for rice in his ass based on a forged action report.

In 71 he testified to congress based on forged 'testimony' evidence (that being Winter Soldier) which he actively participated in.

In '04 he provides CBS with forged 'evidence' of Bush'es National Guard Service.

Posted by CrazyFool 2004-09-12 10:27:23 PM|| 2004-09-12 10:27:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#51 Some observations:

1. Burkett is crazy. His 55 gallon drum full of files for destruction is a bit heavy handed for one reservist. That volume of paperwork would be approriate if this was an attmept to cover-up the presence of a battalion of Russian troops secretly operating in our national... you get the idea

2. Burkett would have gotten the date form correct per the military style sheet.

3. Burkett had plenty of official paperwork of his own that he could have copied - he sounds as if he has at least several Non Punative Letters of Caution to use as a cypher.

4. Burket probably used a typewriter in the day and would have realized that word processors were different.

He is a bad candidate. Look for a kid - probably a liberal arts major - under orders from Dem operative without any military background.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-09-13 12:28:57 AM|| 2004-09-13 12:28:57 AM|| Front Page Top

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