September 17, 2004

EXCULPATORY PROTOCOLS:

Officer Wrote Letter to Bush's Father (MATT KELLEY, 9/16/04, Associated Press)

A packet of Texas Air National Guard records released Friday showed that the commanding officer of President Bush's basic training unit took a special interest in him as a trainee and wrote to his father to praise his son.

Bush's father, then a congressman from Texas, said in reply to the commander, "That a major general in the Air Force would take interest in a brand new Air Force trainee made a big impression on me."

Bush went on to say that his son "will be a gung ho member" of the Air Force and that Air Force instructors had "helped awaken the very best instincts in my son." [...]

In addition to the letter from Bush's father, the latest documents contain news releases that the Texas Air National Guard sent to Houston newspapers in 1970 about young Bush, then a second lieutenant and new pilot. "George Bush is one member of the younger generation who doesn't get his kicks from pot or hashish or speed," the news release said. "Oh, he gets high, all right, but not from narcotics."


For the Democrats' conspiracy scenario to hold any water don't such letters need to show the elder Mr. Bush putting in the fix, not thanking folks who helped incidentally?

Posted by Orrin Judd at September 17, 2004 7:00 PM
Comments

" . . . Air Force instructors had 'helped awaken the very best instincts in my son.'"

Any father (or mother) of a fifteen-year-old son (moi), much less the father of an early-twenty-something son, will identify with those sentiments. So, from the Democrat's perspective . . . I'm really struggling with this . . . the point is?

Posted by: Fred Jacobsen (San Fran) at September 17, 2004 7:26 PM

The Democrats say this proves Bush got special treatment - from his commanders! (That is, all but the one who forged docs in Microsoft Word slamming him.)

Posted by: pj at September 17, 2004 9:08 PM

Is this another example of why you shouldn't play poker with Dubya?

The Dems have been on his case all week demanding that he order the Pentagon to release all his documents---and even got a judge to give a court order to the military. And what they released was a letter praising Dubya!

Posted by: ray at September 17, 2004 10:14 PM

From a 1970 TANG press release: "Oh, [Bush] gets high, all right..."

No doubt.

Posted by: Michael Herdegen at September 18, 2004 5:36 AM
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