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>GWB had the controversy over his service in the National Guard.
A- Do you mean the Dan Rather thing?
That was a controversy over Rather, not Bush.
There's no controversy over Bush. At that time in his life he was a draft-dodging drunk. (PS - so were Slick Willy and lots of other people.)

That's not to say that he didn't clean up his act. But he was a draft-dodging drunk at that time of his life.

He himself said "When I was young and foolish, I was young and foolish" and I admired that.


>How do you then explain why GWB has still been quite popular with our military, certain far more popular than Barack Obama?

Hmm I'd like to see your data on that, especially since GI's - regardless of rank- are forbidden from expressing negative opinions about their leaders except under rigidly structured circumstances.
I don't mean what someone said on cable news (is it still around?.)
Most of the military leaders who served under Bush had their careers ruined.
Pete Pace, a decorated Marine 4 star general, was not re-confirmed at CJCS because of the Iraq debacle and there are many similar stories.
Colin Powell, twice wounded in Vietnam, had his reputation ruined.
The GI's who fought there have the knowledge that they lost a war that never should have been fought.
Not exactly a morale builder, I'd say.
I spent some time with a brilliant young West Point grad from Hamilton, NJ who led one of the last platoons to leave Iraq.
If you spent some time with him, you might change your views about who's popular and unpopular with GI's.
I'm sure that you considered that 22% of US GI's are black, and that 10% are Hispanic when you did your research.
So when you see some WASP from the American Enterprise Institute who went through Harvard on dad's money and has never taken a bullet talking about Obama's relative popularity with GI's on FOX, you're sure that he's asked them, right?

I'm sure that if you asked Halliburton, they'd prefer Bush, for sure.