Thursday, February 05, 2004
Bush the deserter: Robinson rides again
The Glob:
It really is all about character, isn't it?
Say, if there's no story here, why doesn't Bush just release his records, like Kerry, Gore, and McCain did?
UPDATE The records we do have are here (thanks to alert reader JC). And another set of the same here, with an additional were you ever arrested document.
A detailed Globe examination of the records in 2000 unearthed official reports by Bush's Guard commanders that they had not seen him for a year. There was also no evidence that Bush had done part of his Guard service in Alabama, as he has claimed. Bush's Guard appointment, made possible by family connections, was cut short when Bush was allowed to leave his Houston Guard unit eight months early to attend Harvard Business School.
It really is all about character, isn't it?
Say, if there's no story here, why doesn't Bush just release his records, like Kerry, Gore, and McCain did?
UPDATE The records we do have are here (thanks to alert reader JC). And another set of the same here, with an additional were you ever arrested document.