As I saw on CSPAN today, Edwards said regarding the attack on Kerry during the GOP convention, -- what do they think, that John Kerry didn't get enough shrapnel wounds, that he should have had more? If you'd like to see a copy of the letter describing how Bush got out of Viet Nam duty and the payoff to keep insiders shut up, see Greg Palast's site, with a photocopy of the letter.
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STILL UNREPORTED: THE PAY-OFF IN BUSH AIR GUARD FIX

Saturday Aug 28, 2004 by Greg Palast
In 1968, former Congressman George Herbert Walker Bush of Texas, fresh
from voting to send other men's sons to Vietnam, enlisted his own son in
a very special affirmative action program, the 'champagne' unit of the
Texas Air National Guard.  There, Top Gun fighter pilot George Dubya was
assigned the dangerous job of protecting Houston from Vietcong air attack.
This week, former Lt. Governor Ben Barnes of Texas 'fessed up to pulling
the strings to keep Little George out of the jungle. "I got a young man
named George W. Bush into the Texas Air Guard - and I'm ashamed."
THE PAY-OFF

 That's far from the end of the story. In 1994, George W. Bush was
elected governor of Texas by a whisker. By that time, Barnes had left
office to become a big time corporate lobbyist. To an influence peddler
like Barnes, having damning information on a sitting governor is worth
its weight in gold – or, more precisely, there's a value in keeping the
info secret. 

Barnes appears to have made lucrative use of his knowledge of our
President's slithering out of the draft as a lever to protect a
multi-billion dollar contract for a client.  That's the information in a
confidential letter buried deep in the files of the US Justice
Department that fell into my hands at BBC television.


Here's what happened. Just after Bush's election, Barnes' client GTech
Corp., due to allegations of corruption, was about to lose its license
to print money: its ...Click here for full article
http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=365&row=0



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