Clark Hints at Bush's Military Service (AP)

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"President George W. Bush's Military
Service: A Critical Analysis"

"President George W. Bush's Military
Service: A Critical Analysis" 09/09/2004 08:36 AM

Pentagon Finds Payroll Records for
Bush's Military Service
(washingtonpost.com)

Pentagon Finds Payroll Records for
Bush's Military Service
(washingtonpost.com) 07/23/2004 09:18 PM
washingtonpost.com - The Pentagon announced yesterday that it had found payroll records related to President Bush's time in the National Guard -- records that earlier this month were reported accidentally destroyed -- but the discovery did nothing to resolve the dispute over Bush's military service in 1972 and 1973.

Wesley Clark on Kerry’s sterling
military record

Wesley Clark on Kerry’s sterling
military record 04/28/2004 10:22 AM
NYT

nytimes.com/2004/04/28/opinion/28CLAR.html
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In a blistering review of President
Bush's national security policy, Gen.
Wesley K. Clark said on Tuesday that the
administration could not "walk away from
its responsibilities for 9/11."

In a blistering review of President
Bush's national security policy, Gen.
Wesley K. Clark said on Tuesday that the
administration could not "walk away from
its responsibilities for 9/11." 10/30/2003 06:01 AM

nytimes.com/2003/10/29/politics/campaigns/29CLAR.html
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Bush's military records released

Bush's military records released 02/13/2004 10:36 PM
The White House releases the president's National Guard records to try to refute claims that he shirked military duties.

Accusations exchanged over Bush's
military record (USATODAY.com)

Accusations exchanged over Bush's
military record (USATODAY.com) 09/10/2004 05:19 AM
USATODAY.com - President Bush's advisers accused his Democratic rival Thursday of orchestrating new accusations about Bush's National Guard service.

Pentagon Finds Bush's Military Payroll
Records

Pentagon Finds Bush's Military Payroll
Records 07/23/2004 04:49 PM
Reuters via Wired News Jul 23 2004 9:02PM GMT

Bush's Vietnam-Era Military Records Show
Gaps (Reuters)

Bush's Vietnam-Era Military Records Show
Gaps (Reuters) 02/10/2004 08:06 PM
Reuters - President Bush was absent for long periods of his final two years of National Guard duty but met service requirements, according to new records cited by the White House in an effort to refute accusations he shirked Vietnam War-era military obligations.

White House Releases Bush's Military
Records (washingtonpost.com)

White House Releases Bush's Military
Records (washingtonpost.com) 02/11/2004 08:17 AM
White House Release More of Bush's Military Record; Offered no indication of why there was a gap in Bush's service from April to October, 1972. 2/11 .. Washington Post on the records .. released proof .. WashPo .. Yes

washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28838-2004Feb10.html
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Pentagon Finds Bush's Military Payroll
Records (Reuters)

Pentagon Finds Bush's Military Payroll
Records (Reuters) 07/23/2004 04:22 PM
Reuters - Payroll records related to President Bush's service in the Air National Guard three decades ago that the Pentagon said earlier this month were accidentally destroyed now have been located, defense officials said on Friday.

Bush's Military Records Fail to Dispel
AWOL Charges

Bush's Military Records Fail to Dispel
AWOL Charges 07/23/2004 09:56 PM
Reuters via Wired News Jul 24 2004 1:40AM GMT

Bush's service records: The score card

Bush's service records: The score card 02/13/2004 06:58 AM
Did the president walk out on the Texas Air National Guard 30 years ago? A guide through the morass of new evidence.

the Salon article about Bush's service
record

the Salon article about Bush's service
record 09/03/2004 10:29 AM
George W. Bush's Missing Year

salon.com/news/feature/2004/09/02/allison/index.html
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Bush's service records were
"accidentally" destroyed

Bush's service records were
"accidentally" destroyed 07/10/2004 04:58 AM
directly from Kos .. aWol? .. dKos .. Kos

dailykos.com/story/2004/7/8/23589/81575
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USATODAY.com - Questions about Bush's
Guard service unanswered

USATODAY.com - Questions about Bush's
Guard service unanswered 08/27/2004 05:26 PM
Questions about Bush's Guard service unanswered .. "What about George?" .. In USA Today .. reminds us .. subject .. Bush

usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/president/2004-08-23 -bush-service_x.htm
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Visual timeline of Bush's Air National
Guard service

Visual timeline of Bush's Air National
Guard service 09/09/2004 01:04 PM
Mark Frauenfelder: President Bush had a lot of fun as a pilot in the Air National Guard. He got to fly really cool jets, while maintaining the lifestyle of a rich playboy with plenty of upst airs connections that allowed him to ignore direct orders from his commander and come and go as he pleased. And now, the President has a team of folks dedicated to smearing Kerry for volunteering for hazardous duty in Vietnam. And it's working! Most people now believe Bush is a military hero while Kerry is a shirking, wobbly liar. The president is a lot smarter than I thought.

Simon sez: "I put together this visual explanation of Dubya's Air National Guard service (or lack thereof) based entirely on the released documents to date. My goal was to put the confusing mixture of events and records into some kind of order." Link

Critical memos on Bush's Guard service
faked?

Critical memos on Bush's Guard service
faked? 09/11/2004 03:56 AM

Democrats Question Bush's Service, Costs
of War (Reuters)

Democrats Question Bush's Service, Costs
of War (Reuters) 09/08/2004 06:15 PM
Reuters - Democrats raised new questions about President Bush's Vietnam-era National Guard service on Wednesday as White House hopeful John Kerry charged the Iraq war was draining resources from the U.S. economy at home.

Bush's Father Wrote to General About
Guard Service (Reuters)

Bush's Father Wrote to General About
Guard Service (Reuters) 09/17/2004 06:22 PM
Reuters - The Pentagon on Friday released more documents on President Bush's Vietnam-era Air National Guard Service, including a letter from his then-congressman father George Bush thanking a general for "taking interest in a brand new Air Force trainee."

Media failed to find facts behind Bush's
service record

Media failed to find facts behind Bush's
service record 09/09/2004 06:49 PM
Media failed to find facts behind Bush's service record .. a look at how the media .. months

suntimes.com/output/elect/cst-nws-banal11.html
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"further down in the document it lists
Bush's required service requirements
while in the Reserve (pdf)"

"further down in the document it lists
Bush's required service requirements
while in the Reserve (pdf)" 09/15/2004 02:28 AM

New Clash On Military Service
(washingtonpost.com)

New Clash On Military Service
(washingtonpost.com) 04/27/2004 12:35 AM
washingtonpost.com - WHEELING, W.Va., April 26 -- John F. Kerry on Monday sharply questioned President Bush's National Guard service in the 1970s and accused the president of spreading false information about the Massachusetts Democrat's Vietnam War protests of 33 years ago.

Robots Swarm into Military Service

Robots Swarm into Military Service 06/05/2005 11:13 PM
The Christian Science Monitor reports on a variety of miltary swarming and flocking technologies that are in the works including North Korean surveillance robots, an iRobot swarm of 100 test robots, a US Army initiative for networked ground and aerial robots, and Frontline's security robots. The article also talks a little about larger scale swarming involving thousands of robots. Want more swarm news? A vnunet.com story covers the Gridswarm and Ultraswarm projects which will use tiny flying robots running Linux to form an airborne computer network. See also the Slashdot discussion on Gridswarm/Ultraswarm.

60 Minutes Report on Bush's Guard
Service Referenced Falsified Memos?

60 Minutes Report on Bush's Guard
Service Referenced Falsified Memos? 09/11/2004 06:29 PM
A tempest is crawling across the blogosphere, and it isn't named Ivan. At the eye of the storm is CBS, and a 60 minutes report allegedly raising "New Questions On Bush Guard Duty". But were the memos at the heart of this story authentic?

Did the White House release forged
documents about Bush's service record?

Did the White House release forged
documents about Bush's service record? 09/09/2004 04:24 PM
Mark Frauenfelder: Charles at Little Green Footballs presents a persuasive argument that the memos recently released by the White House about President Bush's National Guard service are forgeries.

I opened Microsoft Word, set the font to Microsoft’s Times New Roman, tabbed over to the default tab stop to enter the date “18 August 1973,” then typed the rest of the document purportedly from the personal records of the late Lieutenant Colonel Jerry B. Killian.

And my Microsoft Word version, typed in 2004, is an exact match for the documents trumpeted by CBS News as “authentic.” The spacing is not just similar—it is identical in every respect.

(Background: CNN reported that "the White House, without comment, released to the news media two of the memos, one ordering Bush to report for his physical exam and the other suspending him from flight status." Here are PDF copiesof the memos the White House released.)

I think the documents are indeed forgeries, but who made them? Could it be a White House dirty trick to make the Democrats look bad? Are there real documents that these forgeries are based on that are even more damning about the President's behavior? I'm sure there's more news to come. Link (Thanks, Bob!)

UPDATE: Eric sez: If you weren't reflexively looking for the interpretation of events that reflected most poorly on Bush, you might have noted that the White House did not release those records, they merely passed along without comment copies that had been sent to them by CBS.

UPDATE:David sez: "Saw your post on this on BoingBoing. Fark.com had a couple big discussions today about the potential forgeries (here and here ).

Someone posted the two images (White House released and Word generated), so I fired up an image editor and had a look. While the font character spacing are very similar, most typography experts in the threads agreed that the original had type-write like characteristics (number 8 slightly high on the line, etc.) that would be hard to reproduce in Word. More importantly, the superscript "th" which caused most of the interest is not in the same position in the two images (see attached superimposed comparison).

It's possible that the original was generated on a typewriter with a proportional width Times New Roman font wheel or ball (available at the time), with the same common margin settings as Word uses by default. The superscript used in Word is artificially generated (smaller font size, elevated baseline), whereas the typewritter superscript "th" would need to be carved in the same space as other characters, which is why it appears lower. David Schwab

Key Bush Military Service Files
Destroyed (Reuters)

Key Bush Military Service Files
Destroyed (Reuters) 07/09/2004 11:54 AM
Reuters - Microfilm records related to President Bush's service in the Air National Guard three decades ago were accidentally destroyed when the military tried to improve its files, the Pentagon said on Friday.

Bush Military Service Files Were
Destroyed - Report

Bush Military Service Files Were
Destroyed - Report 07/10/2004 04:58 AM
Bush millitary service records disappear

reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5627899
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Democratic Convention to Focus on
Kerry's Military Service

Democratic Convention to Focus on
Kerry's Military Service 07/13/2004 02:09 PM
The convention, which opens in Boston on July 26, will carry the theme "Stronger at Home, Respected in the World."

"Military records support Kerry's
account of Vietnam service"

"Military records support Kerry's
account of Vietnam service" 08/23/2004 02:43 AM

KRT Wire | 08/20/2004 | Military records
support Kerry's account of Vietnam
service

KRT Wire | 08/20/2004 | Military records
support Kerry's account of Vietnam
service 08/21/2004 02:55 PM
Military records support Kerry's account of Vietnam service .. Knight Ridder humiliates them

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DefenseWeb Awarded Contract for Online
Training to Help Military Track Social
and Family Service His

DefenseWeb Awarded Contract for Online
Training to Help Military Track Social
and Family Service His 03/24/2005 08:13 AM
Biz.yahoo.com - Thu Mar 24, 01:00 pm GMT

Hints on keeping up with the hints...

Hints on keeping up with the hints... 10/28/2003 11:09 PM
In case you haven't noticed, the volume of published hints has greatly increased since Panther's release. Though this is typical with each "dot release" of OS X, the volume with Panther is unlike anything I've seen before. S...

The New York Times > Washington
> Campaign 2004 > Military
Service: Portrait of George Bush in
'72: Unanchored in Turbulent Time

The New York Times > Washington
> Campaign 2004 > Military
Service: Portrait of George Bush in
'72: Unanchored in Turbulent Time 09/21/2004 06:31 AM
Media elite for KerryEdwards .. GWB in ‘72, .. account

nytimes.com/2004/09/20/politics/campaign/20bama.html?ex=1253 332800&en=83d8feb5dfd20364&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland
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President Bush's Eulogy at Funeral
Service for President Reagan

President Bush's Eulogy at Funeral
Service for President Reagan 06/13/2004 06:20 PM
President Bush's Eulogy at Funeral Service for President Reagan .. George W. Bush

whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/06/20040611-2.html
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Military-Travel.net Provides Low Hotel
Rates, Rebates For Military Personnel,
Families

Military-Travel.net Provides Low Hotel
Rates, Rebates For Military Personnel,
Families 05/31/2004 07:05 PM
Said Charles Kessler, president, "There are no restrictions on the number of times an individual can reserve rooms through the Military-Travel.net site, and the hotel accommodations can be used whether traveling on official military business, leave, vacations or other personal matters." Reservations can be made for short and long stays at the guaranteed lowest rates possible and with the additional 5% rebate in effect.

What are Those Military Contractors
Doing in Iraq? How Can Torturing and
Implementation of Our Military Policy be
Outsourced? 5/10

What are Those Military Contractors
Doing in Iraq? How Can Torturing and
Implementation of Our Military Policy be
Outsourced? 5/10 05/10/2004 03:03 AM
John Israel .. commentary

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Iraqi 'Secret Surrender' Negotiations
Have Begun With Key Iraqi Military
Officials In Hopes Some Military Units
Will Not Fight Under Way (Ehr --
Secret?)

Iraqi 'Secret Surrender' Negotiations
Have Begun With Key Iraqi Military
Officials In Hopes Some Military Units
Will Not Fight Under Way (Ehr --
Secret?) 03/13/2003 10:21 AM

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No new hints this morning...

No new hints this morning... 04/13/2004 11:28 AM
Due to family and work commitments today, there won't be any new hints this morning. There may be some this evening, and I will get the Pick of the Week up sometime today, I promise. Sometimes the real world intrudes on my O...

No new hints today...

No new hints today... 07/05/2004 12:57 PM
Today is the Independence Day holiday in the United States. As such, I'll be taking the day off to spend some time with my family. We'll be back as usual tomorrow with the usual assortment of tips and tricks. -rob.
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