"Cub Driver" wrote in message
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Here's what the Boston Globe, which first broke the charges that Bush
was AWOL during the last year or so of his Air Guard tour, concluded
in an editorial:
...
Indeed, in the first four years of his six-year commitment, Bush spent
the equivalent of 21 months on active duty, including 18 months in
flight school. His Democratic opponent, Vice President Al Gore, who
enlisted in the Army for two years and spent five months in Vietnam,
logged only about a month more active service, since he won an early
release from service.

Why was the word "only" inserted in that sentence? "Al Gore, who
enlisted...logged about a month more active service..." sounds a lot better.

I'd have expected more bias from the Globe :-)

-- David Brooks