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Wednesday, February 11, 2004
 
For those of you following the Bush AWOL story and think that the records put out by the White House yesterday clear up this issue, I highly recommend reading Richard Cohen's column yesterday in the Washington Post. (Apparently the Post has now made registration required to view op/ed columns, so no link is available) Cohen frankly describes his service and, while the White House now maintains that Bush's pay records prove his service, Cohen writes:

"For two years or so, I played a perfectly legal form of hooky. To show you what a mess the Guard was at the time, I even got paid for all the meetings I missed."

Furthermore, Bush's records show that he was serving in Texas during the same period that his two commanders wrote that they couldn't evaluate Bush because "he had not been observed" at the Houston base during that time period. (Interestingly, the records apparently show that Bush was on the base the date that evaluation was written.) Could there have been some administrative hanky-panky done to cover this up?

- posted by Joshua @ 11:53 AM
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