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Doonesbury Creator Offers $10K Reward for Bush Military Service Verification
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| Contributor | Gerald Farinas |
| Last Edited | Gerald Farinas Feb 24, 2004 07:13pm |
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| Media | TV News - British Broadcasting Corporation BBC News |
| News Date | Tuesday, February 24, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Doonesbury Creator Offers $10K Reward for Bush Military Service Verification
BBC News
Garry Trudeau has been one of the most influential and persistent voices of liberal America since he started drawing his Doonesbury cartoon strip in 1970. And yet, before the last US presidential election, he was backing George Bush.
And now he is stepping up from the drawing board to take the challenge more directly to the president. He is offering a $10,000 reward to anyone who will verify Mr Bush's account of his military service in Alabama in the early 70s.
Accusations have been made that Mr Bush used family connections to join the National Guard and that he spent the last two of his five years' service working on the political campaign of one of his father's friends in Alabama instead of military duties. His opponents have demanded evidence that he took part in training in those two years.
But in the Doonesbury strips published this week in thousands of newspapers across the US and many in other countries, Garry Trudeau has made his attempt to flush out anyone who can verify Mr Bush's record.
In Monday's strip Mr Bush was seen asking aides why no evidence can be found of his military service. "This is ridiculous," he says. "800 guardsmen and nobody else saw me? What's it take to find one reliable witness?" The next frame has the strip's main character, Mike Doonesbury, standing beside a notice board offering: "Become a witness! WIN $10,000!" |
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