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Reuters: The frequently irreverent "Doonesbury" comic
strip is offering $10,000 to anyone who can show that
President Bush served in the Alabama Air National
Guard. "That's right -- we're offering $10,000 cash to
anyone who can prove George W. Bush fulfilled his
Guard duty in Alabama," Wednesday's strip said. "So if
you served with Mr. Bush -- even if only in the
officers' club -- we want to hear from you right now!"
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'Doonesbury' offers $10,000 for proof Bush served
Wednesday, February 25, 2004 Posted: 5:59 PM EST (2259
GMT)
Bush during his time in the Texas Air National Guard
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- The frequently irreverent
"Doonesbury" comic strip is offering $10,000 to anyone
who can show that President Bush served in the Alabama
Air National Guard. "That's right -- we're offering
$10,000 cash to anyone who can prove George W. Bush
fulfilled his Guard duty in Alabama," Wednesday's
strip said. "So if you served with Mr. Bush -- even if
only in the officers' club -- we want to hear from you
right now!"
Readers are referred to the Web site doonesbury.com,
where a Witness Registration Form asks for online
testimony. The site says the prize money is being
underwritten by Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau.
"Thanks to Bush's massive tax cuts for people who
don't need them, GBT is flush."
The hitch is the winner will not actually receive the
reward. Instead the Web site says the cash will be
donated in the winner's name to the United Service
Organization (USO), which entertains American troops.
The strip first offered the reward on Monday and
already there are hundreds of responses, according to
David Stanford, duty officer at the online Doonesbury
Town Hall.
"We're only in day three and have already received
witness forms from over 600 contestants, with more
streaming in every hour," Stanford said in an e-mail
response to questions.
"We'll be carefully processing all of them, but what's
immediately striking is that so many who've plunged
into the depths of their 1972 memories have surfaced
with accounts that involve automobiles, alcohol,
aliens, secret ops and Elvis," Stanford said.
The White House had no comment on the contest, but
Christine Iverson of the Republican National Committee
said laughingly, "It sounds like a stunt worthy of a
comic strip."
Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe
has accused Bush of being absent without leave from
his Guard service from May 1972 to May 1973.