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Lots of bizarre stuff from Bush this morning, easy to rip apart, but DrFrankLives over at stinging-nettle has a good observation about the AWOL allegations and where that debate should go now:

What we have here is a man who has issued orders retaining Guard and Reserve soldiers beyond their service dates, and he just admitted that he "worked it out with the military" to leave the Guard early so he could go to Harvard Business School.

I have friends in the Guard and Reserve, friends with businesses, families, careers, educations - all on hold - because this man sent them to Iraq. Now they can't come home, and their tours have been extended beyond what any of them signed up for. But HE was able to get out early.