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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Understood. I guess what I find odd is that "proving" bush skipped out b/c he was high presumes you can prove he was skipping out at all. IF that's proven, showing it's because he was worried about a drug test is probably a small detail that won't really matter in light of his previous assertions and their then-proven falsity.
Otherwise what you're left with isa n hypothesis that bush was on drugs (reasonable), which provides motivation for skipping out on duty. But there are plenty of motivations for skipping out on duty, none of which really matter to determining whether, in fact, he did. In short, innuendo he was on drugs doesn't do much in the way of proof of desertion more than commanders saying they don't remember him.
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The drugs aren't proof of desertion. We already know he skipped the physical and was suspended. For good reason, that doesn't bug many people. But if we later find out that he skipped the physical (and thus couldn't fly) because he had been using drugs, I just think that raises the hypocrisy of saying "I did my duty" to a much higher level. To me, it's much more than us knowing that GWB used to party in his younger days.
Of course, I can't see any way to conclusively prove the drug allegation, so it is probably a waste of time for me to split hairs like this over a hypothetical situation.
