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Bush releases Guard pay records

The accusation is that George W. Bush never completed his National Guard service in the early seventies, and that he was only in the Guard in the first place because his family pulled strings to get him there. He says that he got in because the other people ahead of him on the waiting list didn't want to commit to 2 years of pilot training. Considering that there were more than SEVEN HUNDRED people ahead of him and all of them were trying to avoid going to Vietnam, I personally find that a little unlikely, but OK. Thing is, nobody can prove that he actually finished serving his time, especially after he transferred from the Texas Air National Guard to the Alabama Guard. The White House has released his pay records from that time, but that doesn't prove he actually served, just that he got paid. Even those who were supposed to be providing evaluations of him during that time -- including a friend of his -- wrote that they couldn't evaluate him because they hadn't actually seen him. (Both of them are now dead, unfortunately.)

I doubt this will cost him the election, but it does give one more reason for the Pants On Fire Tour.

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