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USA Today jumps in:

Two forms in Bush's publicly released military files — his enlistment application and a background check — contain blacked-out entries in response to questions about arrests or convictions. Bush acknowledged in biographies published in 1999 that he was arrested twice before he enlisted in the Air National Guard: once for stealing a wreath and another time for rowdiness at a Yale-Princeton football game.

The nature of what was blacked out in Bush's records is important because certain legal problems, such as drug or alcohol violations, could have been a basis for denying an applicant entry into the Guard or pilot training. Admission to the Guard and to pilot school was highly competitive at that time, the height of the Vietnam War.

The National Guard cited privacy as the reason for blacking out answers. The full, unmarked records have never been released. Bartlett did not respond Wednesday to a request to release the records with nothing blacked out, which Bush could do as the subject of the records.

And it is all so very, very simple! All Bush has to do, to resolve all these questions, is to release his complete records—including the now blacked out parts.

Why won't he?

It really is a question of character, isn't it?

I like the idea of this USA Today story appearing onteh front page of a newspaper that goes in front of the doors of hundreds of thousands of hotel rooms in America... And of business people reading it as they perform their morning ablutions....