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Dan Rather's Attack on President Bush's Military Service
By Col. John H. Wambough, Jr. USAF (Ret.)
March 9, 2005
Dan Rather and Mary Mapes are still embracing the veracity of content of their 60 Minutes fraudulent memos aired on September 8, 2004. They need to re-read the Report of the Independent Review Panel "Concerning President Bush's Air National Guard Service" by Dick Thornburgh and Louis D. Boccardi.
Far more troubling than Dan Rather's CBS fraudulent memos are the maliciously contrived myths embedded in those fraudulent memos. The hoax exposé demonstrates that the content of Dan Rather's memos was fraudulent. Left-Wing Media (LWM) treachery, deception and distortion laid a solid foundation for Dan Rather's CBS 60 Minutes fabricated story and fraudulent memos. Prior to Election 2004, communications generated by "credentialed media" misled the American people about President George W. Bush's Texas Air National Guard (TANG) record. As you read the hoaxes perpetrated by LWM against the American people, appreciate that these hoaxes were contrived from interwoven myths forged via repetition (by LWM, Democrat National Committee [Terry McAuliffe], Kerry's Campaign, Left-Wing 527s and finally, Dan Rather's 60 Minutes). Many believe the purpose of these hoaxes was to defeat President Bush in Election 2004 and restore the Democrat Party to power.


It is incomprehensible that investigative journalists could get so much wrong about a story without a malicious intent to deceive the American people. How is it possible that LWM investigative journalists didn't inform the American people that there was "no waiting list" to get into the Texas Air National Guard (147th Fighter Interceptor Group [FIG]) as a pilot in May 1968? (pg. 46 -47) How is it possible that the American people weren't informed that F-102 pilots from George W. Bush's unit were flying combat missions in Vietnam at the very time Bush applied for pilot duty and that President Bush (while in the TANG) volunteered for service in Vietnam? (p.130). As you review the LWM hoaxes below, you should appreciate that Dan Rather's CBS 60 Minutes was just the tip of iceberg of the fraud perpetrated by media on the American people in an effort to defeat a sitting President of the United States.
Left-Wing Media (LWM) asserted (prior to the election) that GWB was leapfrogged over hundreds of (TANG) applicants to protect him from the draft and avoid Vietnam. There was no truth to this assertion; there was "no waiting list" for "qualified pilot applicants" in May 1968 when GWB applied to the TANG (147th Fighter Interceptor Group [FIG]). In mid 1968, the 147th FIG (the unit GWB signed up with) was under manned by 156 military personnel (130 enlisted and 26 officer positions). Pilots, on occasion, had to be recruited outside Texas to fill vacant pilot positions. A coveted pilot slot in the ANG in 1968 was a LWM myth. So called "credentialed main stream media" couldn't help but know this (in their vigorous search for the "truth" about GWB's TANG service) (p.46) but for some reason (I wonder what that would be?) they chose to deceive the American people.
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