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Originally posted by bilmore
As the war ended, and experienced military types started coming back home in droves, the reserves had way more people than they needed or wanted. They were letting people out left and right, blowing off contractual terms in order to thin their swollen and unneeded ranks. Usually, it wasn't an official "here's your discharge" - it was with a wink and a nod, an "okay, I'll look over there for a minute, and, when I look back, well, if you're not here, it won't bother me." I had two friends out early that way, and, later, when their terms ended, their discharge papers showed up. That's how the clerks handled too many soldiers. Everything I've seen about the Bush saga fits that scenario.
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If that was the case, it would have been easy enough to just say so. The problem is that his people keep offering up explanations that can't be objectively backed up, then they change their story to something that, again, can't be backed up.
The Republicans are trying to make big political hay with the Swiftboat shit, but they have the same stink in their own house. And none of it really matters nearly so much as what the two men are likely to do if we put them in the White House for the next four years.
