Bush's military records destroyed

Well, just the ones that would have put an end to the AWOL arguement:

Military records that could help establish President Bush's whereabouts during his disputed service in the Texas Air National Guard more than 30 years ago have been inadvertently destroyed, according to the Pentagon.

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The destroyed records cover three months of a period in 1972 and 1973 when Bush's claims of service in Alabama are in question.

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There was no mention of the loss, for example, when White House officials released hundreds of pages of the president's military records last February in an effort to stem Democratic charges that he was "AWOL" for a time during his commitment to fly at home in the Air National Guard during the Vietnam War.

Also found this from the Spokesman-Review:

Retired Lt. Col. Bill L. Burkett, a strategic planner at Texas Guard headquarters in Austin when Bush was the governor of Texas, also confirmed that the HRP regulations applied to the Texas Air National Guard at the time Bush served.


In a New York Times interview and in Moore's new book, Burkett claims he saw some of Bush's military records being destroyed in the mid-1990s.


Bush's file was scrubbed for embarrassing information, Burkett alleges, at the direction of Daniel James III. James headed the Texas National Guard, and Burkett was his chief military adviser when Bush was governor of Texas.

HRP is a human reliability program used to screen personel for their "mental, physical and emotional fitness" before giving them access to nuclear weapons and delivery systems. Pilots could be removed immediately from the cockpit for HRP issues.

Of course this is all speculation, and will now forever be relagated to speculation for the rest of history.