Row deepens over Bush’s Vietnam service records

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.

The CBS flagship programme 60 Minutes unveiled the memos this week. They suggested that Mr Bush fell below Air Force standards and disobeyed an order and also said senior officers tried to “sugar coat” a young Lieutenant Bush’s performance records.

But document experts said the style of type on the papers suggested they were written using computer technology that did not exist in the Vietnam era.