These are points I've retracted from or changed in the <A HREF="http://monkeydyne.com/bushresume/resume.html">George Bush Resume</A>.  I think it's important to track both the truths and the myths to keep debate objective.
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<LI> I <a href="http://www.cato.org/dailys/08-02-02.html">gave $43 million to the Taliban government of Afghanistan in May 2001</a>, knowing that the Taliban was giving sanctuary to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network that had <a href="http://www.infoplease.com/spot/newsfacts-sudanstrikes.html">simultaneously bombed two U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania on August 7, 1998</a>.
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<LI> <I>Retracted 10/6/04:</I> The "$43 million to taliban" quote is <A HREF="http://www.spinsanity.org/post.html?2002_03_24_archive.html#75037397">misleading</A>, since it was paid to NGO groups for food aid, not paid directly to the Taliban.  I still wonder whether giving the Taliban 2.1% of their GDP might have freed up some money from the "feed the people" account and transferred into the "hire more woman-stoning religious policemen" account.
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<LI> I dissolved the 1972 ABM treaty which had limited world production and spread of nuclear weapons. The anti-missile defense project I sacrificed this treaty to champion was a miserable failure, with only one successful test (<a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/starwars.html">rigged with a GPS beacon</a>) on July 14, 2001.

<UL><LI> <I>Retracted 10/6/04:</I> This references a 2001 article pointing to a 2000 test report.  There have been several (five?) successful anti-missile tests since then.</UL>

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<LI> <I>Modified 10/8/04:</I> I entered Yale in 1964 with a <a href="http://www.usa-presidents.info/gwbush.htm">SAT of 1206</a> (<a href="http://www.uwire.com/content/topnews032100001.html">Verbal 566, Math 640</a>), <a href="http://george-w-bush.wikiverse.org/">200 points below Yale's average freshman in 1970</a>, <S><a href="http://www.knowlex.org/lang/en/lexikon/George_W._Bush.html">scoring in the 70th percentile nationwide</a>. No one knows how I managed to gain admission at a school I was so clearly unqualified to attend.  One theory is that my <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H._W._Bush#Personal_background">father</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescott_Bush#Early_career">grandfather</a> had attended Yale, and their legacy influenced the admissions board.</s>
<UL><LI> This section has been modified to remove the 70th percentile figure and speculative statements.  I haven't been able to find a distribution specifically from the year 1964 when Bush took his SATs, but <a href="http://www.eskimo.com/~miyaguch/sat1966.html">1966 scores</a> cast doubt on this claim.  Comparing Bush to 1966 scores would place him within the 89-95th Verbal, 89-94th Math percentiles for men, or within the 81-89th Verbal, 76-87th Math percentiles for college-bound men.  <I>Comparisons aside, if the item that bothers you most about Bush's resume is his high school SAT scores I would invite you to re-examine your priorities.</I></UL>

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<LI> <I>Modified 10/12/04:</I> I moved the summary of Bush's early miltiary and business career to <A HREF="early.html">a separate page</A>.  While Bush's test scores, guard career, and business record may be of interest to some, this record is not nearly as relevant as Bush's performance as president.  This is not a retraction - I still stand by every statement in the early record - the most focus should still be on Bush's immediate record, not what he scored on his SATs 30 years ago. 

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