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http://drudgereport.com/dnc77.htm

DNC TO LAUNCH FRESH ATTACK ON BUSH GUARD DUTY: WILL RAISE QUESTIONS ABOUT 1978 CAMPAIGN LIT

**Exclusive**

Faster than a CBS eye can blink, dogged Dems are set to take to the airwaves anew hoping to keep questions about President Bush's National Guard duty in play, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.

Candidate Kerry apparently has rejected former President Clinton's advice not to get further locked in a 2004 Vietnam quagmire.

"George W. Bush's campaign literature claimed that he 'served in the U.S. Air Force.' The only problem? He didn't," slams a new DNC press release set for distribution.

Dems will attempt to increase the heat on Bush ahead of his planned Tuesday address before The National Guard Association gathering in Las Vegas.

In 2000, Bush opened his National Guard Association speech: "General, I am reporting for duty."

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Kerry plans to speak to the group on Thursday, but he personally hold back questioning Bush's service, sources explain.

The coordinated nationwide effort this week by the DNC has been code-named "Operation Fortunate Son."

"George Bush has a clear pattern of lying about his military service," DNC Communications Director Jano Cabrera blasts in the new release. "From 1978 to the present day, George Bush has refused to tell voters the truth about his service. It's time for the President to come clean."

"Flyers distributed to Texas voters during Bush's failed Congressional race say 'he served in the U.S. Air Force and the Texas Air National Guard.' But according to Air Force officials, Air National Guardsmen are not counted as members of the active-duty Air Force."

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[DarienA]

Operation Fortunate Sun... classic and fitting even if this campaign is a bad idea!

:lol

 

[Hamfam]

Wow, your country is more hopelessly screwed up than I previously thought.

What can possibly end this madness now?

 

[Tenguman]

It's a terrible idea. They are going to waste a lot of money and precious time on this subject when they could be attacking him in things that matter to people who are on the fence about who they are going to vote for. The CBS story got fizzled out the next day, what makes them think they are going to win people over by this?

This campaign will only succeed in getting anti-bush people more angry, and they are already voting for Kerry anyway so why bother?

 

[Ripclawe]

David Corn of the Nation did a story on this and he got wrong information.


http://thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?bid=3&pid=1704

Bush lost that congressional race, but twenty-one years later, the AP questioned him about the ad. The news outlet had a good reason to do so. Bush had never served in the Air Force.

http://www.afpc.randolph.af.mil/sascasstat...asp#Definitions

Definitions

Active Duty
An employment status of the United States Air Force personnel that states the member was Regular Air Force, or Air National Guard or Air Force Reserve in training or on duty.


Date Active Duty
The date a person entered the Air Force.

http://www.ang.af.mil/history/

Although the Air National Guard
was not established as a separate
component of the U.S. Air Force
until 1947, National Guard
aviators have played significant
roles in all of America's wars and
most of it's major contingencies
since the beginning of the 20th
Century. Visit the pages on this
history site to explore the heritage
of American flight...as seen
through the deeds of minutemen.