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What an amazing coincidence! :rolleyes:
How can anyone still believe that there are not blatant coverups, lies and corruption in this administration going back to years before the election? Yeah, I know, “prove the conspiracy”. It would seem there is an abundant shitload of circumstantial evidence pointing to all manner of mischief with these people, and only a fool would believe there is not some substance.
heh heh…yeah. He’s a dirty little genius ain’t he? And he’s got us by our collective balls with this electronic voting scam…to say more would be illegal.
Um, although there has indisputably been some hanky-panky with Bush’s records, the accidental destruction of these records actually sounds quite plausible to me, given the time and circumstances. Thirty-year-old microfilm isn’t exactly the most stable medium, which is why there was an effort by archives to salvage what could be salvaged. You would expect losses.
OK, the detryoed microfilm excuse is at least plausible, as Larry Mudd states. Still, why is this just coming up now?? People have been after Bush’s records for some time and never any mention of missing records with an official explanation of when and how they were destroyed?
How does that work? Society shuns half of itself? Society splits into two groups that mutually shun eachother and each clame to be the one true society? Is this some kind of Zen meditation game?
Because we’re dealing with an entity that has to deal with ten million times more records and paperwork in a week than the average Joe will have to deal with in his entire lifetime. Remember how much trouble you had, say, finding the receipt for your DVD player so’s you could get that nifty rebate?
I say “Whatever”. People that focus on this have their priorities screwed up… AND SHOULD BE SHUNNED FROM SOCIETY!!!
Do you people truly think that everyone at the Pentagon is so enamored with Bush that they’re now engaging in a large scale coverup over 30 year-old National Guard records on microfilm that, up until a year ago, nobody gave a rats ass about? Do you think that everyone who works for the government is part of “the administration” and is in on it?
Why is it coming up now? Because the government is a large, slow-moving, incompetent beauracracy.
I’m surprised that no one’s claimed that Tom Ridge issued the Orange Alert to cover this up.
On preview: I now see that someone has. :rolleyes:
No, I gotta better plan: one half of society could EAT the other half! That way the rightwing would finally serve some purpose, and us lefties would finally have something to appreciate them for. Plus, after eating them, it would cool to have Republican poop in my toilet.
Where do you get this “everyone at the Pentagon” and “everyone who works for the government” stuff? All it would take is a couple of the classic Republican little elves like the ones who secretly worked to impeach Clinton. Or do you feel like denying that nasty little bit of history?
Weeeellll… I dunno. I’ve worked with microfilm older than thirty years, that’s been manhandled by an indifferent public for decades, even, and it’s held up pretty well.
I can maybe see a problem with mold if the films were kept in a damp basement or something, but as physical mediums go, microfilm is reasonably indestructable.
</tinfoil hat>
I don’t usually get that paranoid, but the Pentagon’s excuse certainly gave me pause. You’d have to be pretty stupid and/or negligent to irrevocably destroy microfilm, especially in the middle of a project to salvage it.
Not that I want anybody to think that I’m underestimating the stupidity or negligence of DFAS or anything…
