‘Smoking Microfiche’ says, ‘AWOL’

That slimy little drunken weasel was indeed A.W.O.L.


An excerpt from the article:

The bulk of the comment lately swirls around the "pay records" the
White House claims prove Bush completed his obligation. A few people
sent copies of "The Smoking Microfiche," which questions whether the
released documents are, in fact, pay records, and whether they prove
anything.

The verdict: They aren’t. They’re a record of "retirement points," a
separate matter. The essay also claims the "new" document White House
spokesman Scott McClellan "revealed" last week was published four
years ago on the Web site www.democrats.com.

A second document, torn and only partly legible, may be a pay record.
Since part of it is missing and no one seems to know who issued it,
that’s hard to determine.

If it’s legitimate, though, Smoking Microfiche author Bob Fertik said,
it has a serious flaw from the GOP perspective: Bush’s last date of
pay was April 16, 1972. The only entries after that date are on April
31, June 31, Sept. 31 and Nov. 31. Since those are all 30-day months,
and the entries all say 99 . . . these are ‘placeholder’ numbers, not
pay dates for duty served.

The bottom line is clear: Bush was never paid for service during the
time he claims to have been on duty (White House records do indicate
that he showed up early in 1973 for a government-paid dental exam).

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