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WE AREN'T ALL THAT DIFFERENT

Kevin Drum fesses up to his obsession with the George W Bush National Guard story.

How long ago was that?

Today, Kev brings it all up again because someone else has and his starter got wound up.

Bush National Guard Story Lives

Take a look at the comments. Full of the same kind of trivial conspiracy rehash that we went through in 2000.

This is a lot like the Republican whack jobs I love to mock.

Look. A lot of guys used the National Guard to hide out in the Viet era.

Before that a lot of guys used ROTC and other programs too do the same thing. The Reserves.

I have a story as good as Georgies as it happens. It is just that I didn't run for President or anything else that looked into my dereliction of duty.

I managed to scam my way out of going to the Berlin crisis.

Am I contrite about it? Do I feel bad? No.

No one was dying in that scrape at all but two years of career and family going down the shitter wasn't worth it. Period.

Bush did his slipping when the 'Nam thing was turning down.

I know. There are grades of malingering but he didn't have a monopoly on it by any means.

Labels: bushie, democratic whack jobs, republican whack jobs