Asked why no evidence has been found to show he reported to duty in Alabama during the summer and fall of 1972, Bush said: "There may be no evidence, but I did report. Otherwise, I wouldn't have been honourably discharged... I did show up in Alabama."
Bush said he would "absolutely" authorise the release of any documents relating to his Guard service during that period -- "if we still have them." He said the records are kept in Colorado and have already been "scoured."
Bush acknowledged that he did not volunteer to go to Vietnam. "No, I didn't. You're right," he said.
Pressed on his feelings about that war, Bush said: "The thing about the Vietnam War that troubles me as I look back was it was a political war. We had politicians making military decisions, and it is lessons that any president must learn, and that is to set the goal and the objective and allow the military to come up with the plans to achieve that objective."
Oh my God!
The current "objective" is a little murky to .....????
