Point is, Yaelle, you want it to be true, and it may be true (as many things are without hard evidence) but if you want to draw the line somewhere, where are you going to draw it?
If we decide your word is good on the absence of proof, then...who decides whose word is good?
The Republican Party? The Democratic Party? Obama? Yaelle?
No one on this site knows exactly how responsible and conscientious George W Bush was during his National Guard duty. We all synthesize our knowledge we get from sources and come up with our beliefs. We weren’t there.
So don’t be silly.
And I believe he was not responsible and conscientious about those Guard duties. You might come to another conclusion.