I admire your research, but (in addition to what I said in #27), I think you should be careful in your wording.
I don't know that it's fair to say Walter Robinson "made up" the AWOL story, as you say in your title. It looks to me as if he may have left out important facts -- which, if true, is unethical journalism and is bad enough by itself.
However, to attribute the "AWOL" charge to him, when I believe it is Dim scum-suckers such as Michael Moore and James Car-vile who are responsible for that terminology, doesn't seem kosher.
No. He made it up. He should credit for it.
AWOL Story Won't Die
By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Thursday, February 5, 2004; 10:29 AM
AWOL Watch: The Boston Globe, which in 2000 was the first paper to report on President Bush's spotty record as a National Guardsman, returns to the issue this morning and finds once again that Bush did not report for required Guard duty for a full year at the height of the Vietnam War. Reporter Walter V. Robinson tells Salon he thinks some documents have been removed and inserted from Bush's military file.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15414-2004Feb5.html