C-O-V-E-R-U-P!

But here's the best part...

He only defends Bush's attendance record for the years 1970 and 1971. Has anybody disputed Georgie's attendance in those years while he was in Texas? No.

What does this Campenni guy have to say about '72 and '73? Not a goddamned thing. He can offer broad generalizations about the number of available pilots, but he doesn't say that he served with Bush in Alabama.

Classic misdirection. Wake me up when somebody claims that they served with Bush in Alabama during the disputed dates. k,thnx.

lotsa freepers out flogging this as evidence that the shlub really was there in the guard. maybe they haven't actually read the letter.

the guy says he and bush were in the same unit. nothing more. then he regurgitates the same talking points about how the guard was noble service, they coulda gone to 'nam, and so on.

he never even claims he saw the shlub on base with his own two eyes. pathetic.

Oliver Willis has dug up some more information on Campenni (link). It looks like the guy was in graduate school in 1970-71 and then was stationed with an ANG unit in Pittsburgh in 1972.

An even more interesting bit of info can be found on this link.
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Note the name just below Bush's? Grounded for the same reason, only a month later.

In the 1992 campaign, Mr. Kerry, who has equated Mr. Bush's National Guard service to running away to Canada, took to the Senate floor to denounce Republicans who questioned candidate Bill Clinton's draft record. Mr. Kerry said it was time to stop re-examining how people did or did not serve during the Vietnam War. Mr. Clinton has never served in the military. As a university student, Mr. Clinton wrote a letter to the commander of the Reserve Officers Training Corps at the University of Arkansas, expressing a "loathing" for the military.