who finds it rather curious that George W. Bush's papers saying he really did serve out his National Guard duty were suddenly released...after his rather disastrous (according to many who have seen it) showing on "Meet The Press".

Of course, the Bush apologists all want to know how Bush's service or his using his connections to get out of having to serve in Vietnam could possibly be relevant. I look at it this way: He had no issues with skirting Vietnam by using his daddy's connections, while his peers were sent there to fight a politician's "war". It seems to have not mattered to Bush that his peers either came back in body bags (if they came back at all), or were physically and mentally shattered by the experience.

Fast forward 35-40 years and Bush has the unmitigated gall to turn up on an aircraft carrier in a flight suit, as if he is some war hero, when in fact he sits comfortably in the Oval Office (or Camp David, or at the ranch in Texas...) while he sends young men and women to Iraq to fight and die and come home physically and emotionally broken from fighting his politician's war. He has never participated in combat and he has never had a child in harm's way in a war zone.

Someone who faces getting his hands dirty by insisting someone else (or someone else's children) do the dirty work for him is not a leader. He's a poseur.