Sunday, September 12, 2004

My Favorite Lie

Bush has been a serial liar on the subject of his military service for years. My favorite lie has always been the one which appeared in his autobiography. That one can't be attributed to staffers or to a mistake in an off the cuff remark. It's his autobiography, and the fact that Karen Hughes actually wrote it doesn't get him off the hook. From a Charge to Keep:

I continued flying with my unit for the next several years.


Since Bush stopped flying 22 months after the date in question, this doesn't even qualify for the overly generous definition of "several" as a number greater than two.

Oh, and if I were a reporter or an oppo researcher or someone else with an interest I'd compare the recently released flight logs with other details of his flying discussed in A Charge to Keep.