If this had been Clinton...

David Neiwert has the goods on Bush's military shenanigans, and the links therein are all worth following. The Boston Globe has a good rundown left over from the 2000 campaign of the blatant discrepancies between Bush's biography and what military records had been uncovered. Let's be clear about one thing. There is no reading of the Uniform Code of Military Justice that allows Bush to deny this central fact: he deserted the military during wartime. It is not disputable; the law is crystal clear. As is the punishment: "Death or such other punishment as a court-martial may direct."

It is no coincidence that Bush refuses to release his military records. As Senator Daniel Inouye, who left a limb in Vietnam, stated, "At the least, I would have been court-martialed." Now, it would be a colossal waste of time, money, and energy to bring charges, but given the fever pitch at which this administration hurls accusations of disloyalty and undermining of troops, there is no reason not to trumpet this from the rooftops. At the very least, it's worth a letter to your local paper.