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Some attention has also focused on Mr. Bush's departure from the service. Under his original oath, he was obligated to serve in the Guard until May 1974. Instead, he was allowed to leave in October 1973 to attend Harvard Business School.

Former Guard officials and members of Mr. Bush's unit said that release, seven months early, was not unusual for the Guard. Mr. Bush's unit was changing airplanes at the time, from the single-seat F-102 to the dual-seat F-101. They said it made little sense to retrain him for just a few months' service, and letting him go freed spots for the Guard to recruit F-101 pilots from the Air Force and elsewhere.

Both good reasons Gore never brought up the issue since his Vietnam service is spottier. Gore got a cushy "reporter" assignment, lived in a fancy hotel, had a bodyguard, and was somehow allowed to leave his tour of duty after his father lost his Senate seat.

Now those are suspicious circumstances and some string pulling!

"Now those are suspicious circumstances and some string pulling!"

Consider this too. According to a report during the 2000 Election in US News and World Report, then Pres. Nixon had a bodyguard assigned to young Pfc. Albert Gore, Jr during his time in Vietnam because his father was a sitting U.S. Senator and he didn't want the bad publicity of a Senators son getting killed during by what that time (1972)had become an unpopular war.

In that same story in USNWR, while Gore was in Vietnam, he applied for Divinity School at Vanderbilt University, knowing full well that you would be discharged early from your enlistment if you were accepted to college.

Gore, then having been discharged after only SEVEN MONTHS of a 12 month combat tour in Vietnam, promptly flunked out of Vanderbilt due in some part to his pot smoking habits.

Now who would you rather see wearing their VFW hats and talking about National Security and Military issues?