It's official as it's going to get: Bush was AWOL

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Bush's AWOL military records discovered
 
Questions over his record resurfaced this year as Bush sought, in the midst of the Iraq war, to cast himself as a "war president" in his drive to win reelection on November 2.
The documents released on Friday by the Pentagon included two faded computerised payroll sheets showing Bush was not paid during the latter part of 1972 and offer no evidence to place Bush in Alabama during the latter part of 1972

So if he wasn't paid- and the available evidence shows he wasn't- why?

 

And how did he get an "honorable" discharge?