An excellent point on GWB’s National Guard service, and his past in general,
was made by Mark Steyn in last Sunday’s Daily Telegraph: “[W]hatever Bush
did or didn’t do back in those days is consistent with who he is. As
horrified European commentators are fond of pointing out, Mr Bush is a
’born-again’ Christian. We don’t need to see grainy home movies of a soused
goofball in a Mexican bar face down in the beer nuts to know more or less
the kind of guy he was 30 years ago. But he changed; he was born again. If
you found some video of Bush rat-arsed (as the British say) in 1974, how
relevant is that to the abstemious tucked-in-by-nine family man of 2004? In
that sense, even if everything the accusers said was true — that he was an
absentee Guardsman — it’s not inconsistent with the official Bush
narrative.”
Full piece here.