I've always thought that Dan Rather's report was accurate...

[A Black Falcon]

I made *ahem* found a document stating that ABF is stupid and dumb. Since it hasn't been disproven, and it fits in with everything I know, then that makes it true by default!

Oh come on, that's a ridiculous comparison. There's a big difference between something that obviously has no basis in fact and something that perfectly fits the facts, it just isn't conclusively proven to be true, though there was also backup evidence of people who were at that base(in Alabama mostly, but also perhaps in Texas) at the time (including military officers) he was supposedly supposed to be there and couldn't remember ever seeing him... or that, again from other evidence, that we know that during this period W. was an at least occasional crack cocaine user (and drunk, too)... yeah, there's no reason at ALL to believe that he just didn't show up for the minimal time his national guard requirement required!

It is amazing how much he turned his life around by becoming an evangelical Christian and abandoing drugs and alcohol... he went from being a drunk who failed at just about everything he wasn't given to a sober person who failed at everything he wasn't given (Baseball, business, politics...).

... It'd be amusing if the results weren't so horrifyingly tragic.