Unfortunately this evidence is undercut somewhat by Richard Cohen’s column today in which he talks about his own similar circumstances in the national guard around the time the president was there. Cohen just sort stopped showing up and played hookey from the national guard, but he was still paid for meetings he didn’t bother showing up for.

This is a mess that Bush could have cleared up years ago if he’d allowed the government to release all of his military records- something that even now, after vowing to release all the records, he is unwilling to actually do.

It’s a tradition for presidential candidates to release all of their military records, Bush just doesn’t want to, which is his right. He just shouldn’t be terribly shocked when questions are raised.

The real question here is why did he miss that physical? The Guard spent a lot of money training him, then he refuses to submit for a physical. Is it just a coincidence that random drug testing started at that time?