Look what Captain Ed found:
George W. Bush, you may be the president [sic]. But I know that you lied.
I know from your files that we have now reassembled, [--ed. Bold mine.] the fact that you did not fulfill your oath, taken when you were commissioned to "obey the orders of the officers appointed over you". I know that you not only lied to the American people in 1994…This Bill Burkett op-ed piece is from August 25, 2004. Did Bill Burkett want to be caught?
Bill Burkett is a retired Texas Army National Guard lieutenant colonel with a beef against George W. Bush. On a deployment to Panama in 1997, LTC Burkett allegedly caught the disease meningoencephalitis. There was some dispute between the colonel and the Texas/US government as to whether the disease was contracted during the deployment (I don’t know if LTC Burkett won the dispute or not.)
However, also allegedly, LTC Burkett blames George W. Bush—Texas governor at the time--for the dispute. (In peacetime, the CinC for ANG units is the appropriate state governor. However, I’m wondering whether LTC Burkett’s CinC was actually then Governor Bush for the colonel's Panama sojourn. During his type of deployment—one in support of federal goals--I would think that the CinC would have been the POTUS—namely William J. Clinton.)
So LTC Burkett has motive, opportunity, (registration required), and has--possibly--confessed to being at least one of the authors of the likely forged documents that CBS and Dan Rather have set in front of the eyes of the American viewing public.
Inquiring minds want to know: what does meningoencephalitis do to one's thought processes, if anything?
Stay tuned.
(Thanks, ad infinitum, to the Creator of Investigation)
