Oh Those Bush Military Records

The fine folks at Corrente have some good takes on this mucked-up microfiche, starting here. But Lambert also points out:

Maybe we can't resolve, through payroll records, whether Bush did, in fact, fulfill his legal obligations to serve.

But perhaps we can resolve why he was grounded. And to resolve this, Bush just needs to authorize the release of the sixty pages that have been withheld, so far. Why on earth would Bush let this issue fester? I just can't understand....