I may be forced to start a "Say, what?" series...What the heck is Bush smoking? Let's see the press corps ask Dana Perino about this latest distortion. We all know that McCain was vehemently opposed to Webb's GI bill. According to him, we can't have GI's receiving adequate compensation because 16% might not stay in the service. Yea, so let's ask "My Friends" McCain, what a soldier's life is worth?

This is rank dishonesty by Bush and maybe the straight talker will correct the record for Bush. You know, since he's such a straight talker. Hell, maybe Richard Cohen will write a nice op-ed about it all. OK, that will never happen so let's ask him to...cohenr@washpost.com