“One of my regular readers sent me the text of an AP story from July 2000 regarding the Bush AWOL question. It should put to rest the lie that George W. Bush served dishonorably in the Texas Air National Guard. Also, it’s worth noting that one of the core pieces of ‘evidence’ that the ‘Bush was AWOL’ liars used to ‘prove’ Bush was ‘AWOL’ from his post – the testimony of an officer at the Alabama Guard post where Bush was temporarily reassigned in 1972, has crumbled.
Bush’s key accuser on the matter, Brig. Gen. William Turnipseed, who told the Boston Globe in 2000 that Bush never showed up for Guard drills with his Alabama unit, had recanted as recently as this week.
‘We spoke to him yesterday,’ [NBC White House correspondent David] Gregory told radio host Don Imus, ‘and he said, ‘I don’t know if [Bush] showed up, I don’t know if he didn’t. I don’t remember how often I was even at the base.””
Hobbs posts the whole story, at the link above.
Not that I expect this argument to end anytime soon; the left is never satisfied with facts.