George W. Bush's Vietnam-era Service Record

Simon Woodside has created a great graphic depicting GWB’s service in the Texas National Guard. His site is being flooded so I’m posting the PDF here. Download it, share it with your friends!

PDF link here.

Update: Given that I’ve been acting as a mirror for a couple of sites on this my traffic has gone through the roof! I have a lot of people emailing me to tell me how biased I am – I just want to state for the record that I did not create or author this PDF, I’m merely hosting it. I do agree with the message however, and think that it’s about time the democrats start catching up with the GOP in terms of mud slinging.

I guess it’s a sad time that our nation has come to – in this, quite possibly the most important election we have had yet the issues have been pushed down under the carpet, the people of the United States have been distracted by foolish things. I just want to go on the record as stating that I don’t care that much about what GWB did in the Texas National Guard, or for that matter what Kerry did in Vietnam – what I care about is the calibre of leadership, diplomacy, and tact that will be leading our country, protecting our soil, and dealing with our foreign policy. GWB has proven himself unable to do with without getting us into a war, creating international strife, and removing healthcare from thousands worldwide (mostly in America).

Come on guys – let’s focus on the issues and leading America into the future, not focus on something that happened before I was born!

Comments

[luke]

check out the GQ article on bush's service...might give you a different perspective on that...

[mike]

This is breaking....
Looks like some of the documents are a hoax. This is based on analysis of the the typeface used.

= http://ratherbiased.com/news/content/view/202/2/ =

Wow...anonymous posts to discredit a story. Hmm. Maybe it'd be more believable if luke and mike chose to identify themselves?

I'm no Bush fan, but shouldn't an accurate graph depict time intervals in equal amounts for the width of the chart? This graph makes a 1.5 year interval look the same as the previous 4 year interval which greatly exaggerates the time period at issue.

[jayef]

Not CBS? Forged documents pawned off on Dan Rather without critical examination? NOOOOOO!

Hey Dan and CBS . . . when you guys gonna run a Swiftboat Vets piece? You gonna ask Kerry to sign his form 180? Maybe you can do a piece on Teresa's refusal to share her tax records or Kerry's refusal to make his medical records public?

Hey, just an interview with Kerry where you ask him some of these questions would be nice. That reminds me . . . Kerry's been AWOL for almost a month and a half now. Since when do Presidential Candidates, especially challengers, not do interviews?

Curious . . . eh?

[Sparky]

In regards to the person commenting on the graphic using various scales - shush... It's very clearly indicated when the graph shifts from years to months, and it's very common in statistics to do such a thing. If he had not it would have been a *very* long graphic, and would have been difficult to print on a single page.

Anonymous posts to discredit a story? Whats your point? It's not a hoax because I didn't post my social security number?

[Anonymous Guy]

Sparky, I like how you post this graph and then, at the end of your post, say that we should stop looking to the past.

Get yourself straight, fella, and remember: jadecore sucks.

[Kathy]

you have we not seen

should be we have not seen

good graph.