Skimming the surface and skipping over details may be business as usual for a happy-go-lucky 26-year-old, but it's a problem for a President during a winter of discontent. Whether Bush performed his National Guard duties while he was working on the Blount campaign—as well as during much of the year starting in May 1972—was raised in his past campaigns and always fluttered away quickly, an issue regarded as irrelevant after two decades or more. But it has become germane this time in a way it never was before because for the second time in as many months—first on prewar intelligence in Iraq and now on his military record—Bush is caught in a gap between what he has claimed and what he can prove. At the same time, he's gearing up for a fight with a probable Democratic nominee whose record as a Vietnam War hero helps buy him credibility to challenge Bush on his military resume. Bush insists he did his duty in Alabama, but the records—and many memories—don't confirm it. And these days, people are paying a lot closer attention to the President's words. Sadly, I can't remember which FOX show I was watching last evening, and who was commenting, but when asked about why the increased and repeated attention about the NG records, the commentator emphatically stated the Dem agenda in this is to question, now and forever afterwards, in the 04 campaign, President Bush's "INTEGRITY"...did he lie to us now, as he did then...
So it's not so much an issue of whether he was AWOL, but more of an issue of why he is deceptive.....that's the campaign agenda of the Dems for 04
Bush should beat them all with the bottom of his shoe.