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It's kinda funny ... some of the same people who could reach great depths of righteous indignation over Bill Clinton's avoiding service seem very unconcerned about the fact that GW failed to live up to the obligations he took on when he became a member of the Guard. What happened to the concern about the President being a liar?

When you get right down to it, Bush, Clinton, Kerry, and John McCain are ALL fairly representative of their generation and its relationship to "The War." In Bush's case, he used the pull of a Congressman daddy to bypass the waiting lists and get into the Guard.

When Bush told Meet the Press that suggesting his service in the Guard was avoiding Vietnam and an insult to modern Guardsmen, I laughed out loud. Comparing the Guard and Reserves of today to the slackers of that period is the real insult. The pay records prove that Bush may have actually committed fraud, when viewed in the context that there is little else to back up his claim of service, particularly when nobody remembers him. Again - getting yourself assigned TAD to another unit and not showing up was a fairly common trick in the Guard and Reserves at that time, as was getting paid for drills you didn't participate in.

Is it an issue? Yup - it is to some. Is it important? I've always thought the attention given to Clinton's record was pretty stupid. This WAS just as stupid - until lately.