469 Letters from the Guard

Letters are posted anonymously at Andrew Sullivan, who dislikes Bush intensely, because he is gay and doesn’t like Bush’s stand on marriage. The letters aren’t particularly easy to find, or read (white on navy, narrow columns, almost indistinguishable from Sullivan’s comments), otherwise I‘d just link to this. But I thought this one was interesting.

“RE: The Bush AWOL charges: I have worked fulltime for the National Guard for 20 years have been in charge of payroll documents, which are what are mainly used to chronicle reserve service. I have followed this stuff when it was exposed by the LA Times back in 2000 and I was prepared to not support Bush if the charges were proven true. I've seen copies of the records and what Dems are saying is a distortion of the record. A drilling guardsman is required to have 50 points per year to have a "good" year. His records show that he met this requirement, sometimes many times over . . .

The press approach to Kerrys service records has been the exact opposite of their approach concerning Bush's service records, which should be a big enough clue as to what the objective is here. This isn't a quest for objective truth telling. It's a naked attempt to try to lift their rather pathetic candidate out of the ditch he has dug for himself. Also, the only reason the press has any of these records is because President Bush signed a SF 180 authorizing them to access his records. John Kerry won't sign one. I wonder why?”