Wingnutty Conspiracy Theory

Although there is no credible evidence or news stories on this, the response from the right to the reports that Bush refused a direct order and went AWOL, more than once: the documents are forgeries.

The biggest problem with this is that the White House concedes their authenticity. Instead, they seek to explain them.

[WH Director of communities Dan]Bartlett said Bush's superiors granted permission to train in Alabama in a non-flying status and that "many of the documents you have here affirm just that."

Asked about Killian's statement in a memo about the military's investment in Bush, Bartlett told CBS: "For anybody to try to interpret or presume they know what somebody who is now dead was thinking in any of these memos, I think is very difficult to do."

Why Bush did not obey the order for the physical?

Bartlett told CBS, "As it says in your own documents, President Bush talked to the commanders about the fact that he'd be transferring to a unit ... in Alabama that didn't fly that plane," the F-102, the type Bush was trained in.

Ever mindful of Nuremberg, Bush refused an illegal order?