"Bush was mucking up his flying": While George W. Bush has offered multiple excuses for leaving the Texas Air National Guard early--from the planned mothballing of the type of airplane he flew to his doctor's unavailability to schedule a physical to a job opportunity elsewhere--a new reason may be emerging: the widow of the pilot brought in to replace Bush when he left for Alabama in 1972 says "Bush was mucking up his flying very badly and he couldn't fly the plane... he was having trouble landing, and that possibly there was a drinking problem involved in that." A very interesting story from The Nation.