Bill Burkett's Story

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By Bill Burkett
Online Journal Contributing Writer

March 19, 2003—I've sat in total grief for the past three years, watching the institutions of America being spent as if they were lottery winnings.

I don't want to say it, "But I told you so."

In January of 1998 and what seems like a full lifetime ago, I was stricken by a deadly case of meningoencephalitis. I was returning from a short duty trip to Panama as a team chief to inspect the hand over of Ft. Clayton to the Panamanians. I had been 'loaned' from the senior staff and state planning officer of the Texas National Guard to the Department of the Army for a series of these special projects after angering George W. Bush by refusing to falsify readiness information and reports; confronting a fraudulent funding scheme which kept 'ghost' soldiers on the books for additional funding, and refusing to alter official personnel records [of George W. Bush].

George W. Bush and his lieutenants were mad. They ordered that I not be accessed to emergency medical care services, healthcare benefits I earned by my official duty; and I was withheld from medical care for 154 days before I was withdrawn from Texas responsibility by the Department of the Army, by order of the White House.

I was a pawn then caught in a struggle for right and wrong, but also caught within a political struggle between a man who would do anything to be 'king' of America and an institution of laws that we knew as America.

Captain Maureen A. Griswold, RN (ret), whose brother was KIA in Vietnam, is pursueing ABC to cover the Bush AWOL story and provides the evidence and contacts for them. She points out that Col. Burkett and none of the documents have been on American TV.

None of the above assignments require a great deal of time to complete. Indeed, many Americans, including veterans, have already done their homework and know the "real deal" on their Deserter-in-Chief, GW Bush.

I might suggest it would be a nice thing, once ABC News and Mr. Jennings complete the above homework on "the facts," to issue an apology to Michael Moore for their own "reckless" characterization. That mischaracterization was immediately followed in lockstep, with Moore discredited as a "liberal" and "propagandist" by our brilliant bevy of celebrity multimillionaire broadcast media talkng heads, the majority of whom have never heard a shot fired in anger themselves.