WTF Is It Now?!?

Playing 'Top Gun' for the cameras
'[P]ictures should not disguise the truth of Bush's military record. As the Globe reported bluntly during the 2000 presidential campaign, ''During the Vietnam War, Texas Governor George W. Bush compiled a spotty attendance record in a Texas Air National Guard billet arranged through family political connections.''

'Bush's military records, obtained by Globe reporter Walter V. Robinson during the 2000 campaign, revealed the following: ''In his final 18 months of military service in 1972 and 1973, Bush did not fly at all. And for much of that time, Bush was all but unaccounted for: For a full year, there is no record that he showed up for the periodic drills required of part-time guardsmen.''

'Like many rich, privileged, or otherwise politically well-connected young American men, he avoided real war. Like many young men he refused and still refuses to acknowledge his effort to avoid combat. Did it cross his mind when he was ordering troops to Iraq, or afterwards, when he was comforting wives, mothers, and children of dead American soldiers? His answer to that question would be interesting to hear.' - snipped from Joan Vennochi's column, here.