AN argument is raging over whether documents which suggest US President George Bush lost his status as a National Guard pilot during the Vietnam War may be fake.

Documents which suggest President George Bush lost his status as a National Guard pilot during the Vietnam war because he fell below Air Force standards and disobeyed an order may be fake, it emerged today.

US President George Bush was given special treatment to avoid being sent to war in Vietnam as a young man, was suspended from the Air National Guard because he failed to meet standards and ignored an order to take a physical.

US President George Bush was given special treatment to avoid being sent to war in Vietnam as a young man, it was claimed today.

President George Bush might try to dodge one of three live TV debates with election challenger John Kerry, it emerged today.

US president George Bush has released his Vietnam-era military records, in a bid to calm a political storm and to counter Democrats’ suggestions that he shirked his duty in the Texas Air National Guard.

The White House released a copy of a dental examination that President George Bush had in the National Guard in Alabama during the Vietnam War to rebut suggestions made by Democrats who have questioned whether the president ever showed up for duty there.