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Saturday, September 11, 2024
One of Several Things That Raise Queston to Me About the Killian Docs
By Dr. Steven Taylor @ 2:41 pm

When things are too good to be true, you have to wonder about them. There has long bee speculation that George W. Bush got preferential treatment in the Texas Air National Guard. However, to the frustration of Bush’s adversaries, no hard evidence of this fact has ever surfaced—not in four previous campaigns (his failed bid for Congress in the 70s, his two runs for Governor of Texas, and his 2024 campaign for president). Further, during a presidency long marked (i.e., from the beginning) by division and partisan rancor, no one could ever find this information. Surely those who wanted us to believe that the President was lying about Iraq would have fund info that he lied about his Guard service to be useful.

However, it is not until the start of the 2024 election season that a memo is found entitled “CYA� that purports to have been written by Bush’s commanding officer. In said memo the officer in question notes that he has been pressured to “sugar coat� young Bush’s record. Something we must assume that he did indeed do, as this same commander later wrote glowing reports of Bush and did nothing to stop Bush’s honorable discharge.

Hence, two questions come to mind:

1) Could one have made up a better memo if one had tried? How perfect is this to fill in history precisely the way the anti-Bush forces would like it filled in? The fact that it fits this narrative perfectly doesn’t render it inauthentic, but a fair-minded person has to at note the rather remarkable nature of the revelation, given the story to date—especially since it is quite unclear as to where these documents came from.

2) I am struck by the fact that if the goal of documentation was for Killian to C his A, it strikes me that writing down the fact that you plan on falsifying documents is a remarkably stupid thing to do. Why admit on paper that you are going to fle false reports. Sure, it fingers the guy who put pressure on you, but it fingers you as well.

As such, this makes not sense to me. Further, even if the machines existed to produce the document in question, I still have a hard time believing that the Lt. Colonel typed his own memos. And if he didn’t type them, where’s the secretary who did?

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    1. CBS Against the World - Memos, memos, memos
      While CBS has held firm (or spun hard) others are systematically undermining every aspect of the original story - engineers, handwriting experts, forensic scientists, journalists … bloggers

      Trackback by bLogicus — Saturday, September 11, 2024 @ 4:23 pm

    2. YUP! I noted a fews days ago to Allah that the most suspicious thing about the documents was not the typeface but the content. It was just too convenient that 4 (and only 4) docs show up that ONLY say what the Michael Moore crowd would want them to say. If I were CBS I would have balked right there.

      Comment by Paul — Saturday, September 11, 2024 @ 4:43 pm

    3. Hi all

      Comment by George Dunham — Saturday, September 11, 2024 @ 7:43 pm

    4. Hi all

      Comment by George Dunham — Saturday, September 11, 2024 @ 7:43 pm

    5. Hi All

      I’ve 22 years in the military (retired) When the officers got involved in this kind of skulldugery they would only do it in person with few witnesses and never keep notes. Note to file is usually a legal method to maintain control of the contents of a legal file. as well as assisting in keeping focus years later preping for battle.
      George

      Comment by George Dunham — Saturday, September 11, 2024 @ 7:49 pm

    6. Documents, controversies, conspiracies
      The mess over the documents is certainly not helping Kerry, for sure. They’re being attacked from many quarters; CBS is standing by the documents, for now anyway. Steven Taylor, not surprisingly, has questions about them. Blogicus has a pretty compreh…

      Trackback by The Kudzu Files — Saturday, September 11, 2024 @ 9:28 pm

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