More Gaps in Bush's Military Records than Nixon's Tapes

Gee, at least we know where John Kerry was and what he was doing.

Documents that should have been written to explain gaps in President Bush's Texas Air National Guard service are missing from the military records released about his service in 1972 and 1973, according to regulations and outside experts.

For example, Air National Guard regulations at the time required commanders to write an investigative report for the Air Force when Bush missed his annual medical exam in 1972. The regulations also required commanders to confirm in writing that Bush received counseling after missing five months of drills.

No such records have been made public and the government told The Associated Press in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit that it has released all records it can find.

Outside experts suggest that National Guard commanders may not have produced documentation required by their own regulations.

OR, as has been charged by a military man who says he was an eyewitness to the event, Bush's records were purged of all embarrassment before he ran for governor.

OR... the documents that would have spelled out why Bush was grounded, refused to take his mandatory medical exam, failed to show up in Alabama (remember: no credible eyewitnesses have ever come forward to put him there at other than bars), and was discharged honorably without meeting his mininum commitment were never filed at all because Poppy Bush was already a bigwig and nobody wanted to state categorically what a fuckup his son was.