AWOL
Over at Calpundit there's a good summary of the Bush-AWOL case.
The really, really short version: He joined the Texas Air National Guard in 1968, got a transfer to Alabama approved in 1972, but apparently never showed up there, and he may have been AWOL from the Texas Guard when he returned, though evidence apparently exists that he did show up in Texas after returning, in the form of a strategically torn document that wasn't in Bush's record until it mysteriously appeared in 1999, after he hired a guy named Albert Lloyd to go through Bush's records. Oh, and Bush still wont release his full records, which would settle this issue once and for all.
My thoughts on the matter are simple: If Bush wont release his full records, then he has something to hide. Period.
I'd like to add myself to the growing chorus of people who want to make Bush's military record a campaign issue, particularly if the Democratic nominee's name ends in "erry" or "lark". Putting Bush and his press secretary on the defensive on the AWOL issue, as the White House press corps actually did a couple of days ago, is worth it despite whatever backlash or response strategy they can muster. Between Bush's military records, Cheney's energy task force records, Bush's refusal to seek out the Plame leaker ("any appearance of corruption", he said), and the administration's reluctance to hand over myriad documents to the 9/11 commission, that's a boatload of secrecy.
Lastly, if on sunday, Tim Russert actually grills Bush on the AWOL issue, then I will quit blogging.
...for the rest of the day
Over at Calpundit there's a good summary of the Bush-AWOL case.
The really, really short version: He joined the Texas Air National Guard in 1968, got a transfer to Alabama approved in 1972, but apparently never showed up there, and he may have been AWOL from the Texas Guard when he returned, though evidence apparently exists that he did show up in Texas after returning, in the form of a strategically torn document that wasn't in Bush's record until it mysteriously appeared in 1999, after he hired a guy named Albert Lloyd to go through Bush's records. Oh, and Bush still wont release his full records, which would settle this issue once and for all.
My thoughts on the matter are simple: If Bush wont release his full records, then he has something to hide. Period.
I'd like to add myself to the growing chorus of people who want to make Bush's military record a campaign issue, particularly if the Democratic nominee's name ends in "erry" or "lark". Putting Bush and his press secretary on the defensive on the AWOL issue, as the White House press corps actually did a couple of days ago, is worth it despite whatever backlash or response strategy they can muster. Between Bush's military records, Cheney's energy task force records, Bush's refusal to seek out the Plame leaker ("any appearance of corruption", he said), and the administration's reluctance to hand over myriad documents to the 9/11 commission, that's a boatload of secrecy.
Lastly, if on sunday, Tim Russert actually grills Bush on the AWOL issue, then I will quit blogging.
...for the rest of the day
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