The San Francisco Chronicle plays with verbs when it presents this on its Web site:
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Bush Military Info Destroyed
Payroll records that could clarify his service history were damaged. Pentagon blames ‘deterioration.’ AP
Really? The Pentagon–Bush’s Pentagon—blames deterioration? What about “explains fact” or “cudgels conspiracy theory advocates with facts, to no avail”?
Here’s the words from the article:
The letter said that in 1996 and 1997, the Pentagon “engaged with limited success in a project to salvage deteriorating microfilm.” During the process, “the microfilm payroll records of numerous service members were damaged,” the letter said.
This process resulted in “the inadvertent destruction of microfilm containing certain National Guard payroll records,” including Bush’s, the letter said.
This particular conspiracy stretches back to the last year of Clinton’s first term and the first year of his second! Damn, these Bushies are thorough.
I mean, it must certainly be unthinkable that this particular set of undifferentiated records from thirty years ago were damaged by underpaid, but underwhelming, low-ranking government and military functionaries. Instead, the San Francisco Chronicle would seem to have you connect the stars to make damning constellations.
