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"And I come back to you now, at the turn of the tide"

Wednesday, February 18, 2004

Kevin Drum has a pretty comprehensive wrap-up of the controversy surrounding Bush's military service, and his continuing reluctancy (despite last week's document purge), to release the documents necessary to fully resolve the issue.

Basically, in a couple of weeks of discussion of the issue, the question went from "where was Bush for a year?" to "where was Bush for six months?"

Conservative blogger John Cole tries to rain on Kevin's parade, suggesting that his entire case rests on the word of one man (Bill Burkett, the person claiming that he heard Bush's people discussing the "cleansing" of his record). Of course, the only evidence anyone has come up with that even slightly suggests that Bush was present in Alabama from May to November of 1972 is the word of one man, John Calhoun, who has not only shown himself to be not credible, but in direct contradiction to the line pushed by the White House.

Nevermind, of course, that any number of documents, outside of the word of Burkett, could clear this all up, as Kevin mentions:
Where is his final Officer Efficiency Report? His pay stubs? The Flight Inquiry Board report after he was grounded for missing his physical?

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