The Unofficial Paul Krugman Web Page: "this year's budget contains 27 glossy photos of Mr. Bush. We see the president in front of a giant American flag, in front of the Washington Monument, comforting an elderly woman in a wheelchair, helping a small child with his reading assignment, building a trail through the wilderness and, of course, eating turkey with the troops in Iraq. Somehow the art director neglected to include a photo of the president swimming across the Yangtze River."

BW Online | February 23, 2004 | Commentary: Inventing The "Clinton Recession"

Boston.com / News / Nation / Bush releases his military records: " the White House made available to reporters a retired Guard lieutenant colonel, John Calhoun, who said Bush appeared for frequent drills at the Alabama unit in 1972. But Bush's records do not support Calhoun's claim. And numerous other members of the Alabama Guard unit told reporters this week that they did not recall Bush appearing at the unit."

Memphis Flyer :: Issue 781 :: BUSH A NO-SHOW AT ALABAMA BASE, SAYS MEMPHIAN

washingtonpost.com Duck hunting

Most Think Truth Was Stretched to Justify Iraq War (washingtonpost.com)

the Progressive Southerner | George W. Bush's Lost Year in 1972 Alabama

Michael Moore.com : Mike's Message : Messages: "But your 'desertion' didn't go away -- and here's the reason why. You have sent countless numbers of our sons and daughters in the National Guard to their deaths in the last 11 months. You did this while misleading their parents and the nation with bogus lies about weapons of mass destruction and scary phony Saddam ties to al Qaeda. You sent them off to a never-ending war so that your benefactors at Halliburton and the oil companies could line their pockets. And then you had the audacity to prance around in a soldier's uniform on an aircraft carrier proclaiming 'Mission Accomplished' -- while the cameras from your re-election campaign ad agency rolled."

Yahoo! News - AP: Nuclear Suppliers Were Known to U.S. ... for twenty years.

From Guardsman . . . (washingtonpost.com)

'Pay' Records Prove Bush was AWOL in Alabama

The New York Review of Books: Now They Tell Us

Pakistan's Nuclear Inquiry is a Sham

Opinion: Editorial: Bush records remain AWOL (captimes.com)

Press Briefing by Scott McClellan: "Where was he in December of '72, February and March of '73? And why did he not fulfill the medical requirements to remain on active flight duty status? "

Editorial: Bush on Iraq/An unpersuasive performance

IOL : America wants SA to take activist role in Zim: "Charles Snyder, acting assistant secretary of state for Africa,...rejected criticism that the US was interested in the Sudan only because of its oil, saying its real oil interest on the continent was in west Africa, now supplying about 15 percent of US needs...'We may be guilty of chasing oil elsewhere but not in the Sudan. ' "

The Daytona Beach News-Journal: East Volusia: "This bill is a cinch to pass. Schools should have no trouble sweating $2.7 million or so out of their budgets so legislators can feel the warm glow that comes from requiring other people to be patriotic."

Cheney: The Man in the Bubble : "Cheney's isolation didn't alter Davos for the rest of us, except for minor annoyances. But it provided a disturbing picture of how isolated our president and vice president have become, how apart from the world their existence is. I came away from Davos sensing that the leaders of our country are ever more cut off from the kind of normal feedback and outside input crucial to grasping the current state of the world."