Lan Barnes wrote:
Couple of facts:
1. He did avoid service, first in the regular military service and then in the Guard.
We'll ignore this, since it has been debated and debated and debated.
We'll also ignore that this has never been either refuted or denied by the President himself to my knowledge. Lots of snickers, yes, but nothing sounding even vaguely like "That's just not true". No doubt wisdom gained at the expense of denials made by Nixon and Clinton.
2. Neither CBS nor anyone else reputable has ever said that the documents are proved fakes. They have admitted that they cannot prove that they are not.
Please, this is legal double speak and you know it. To admit they aired fakes, opens them up to civil suits, and could present them with some criminal charges (or at least the involvement in a criminal case) regarding the President of the United States. Forging official US Government Documents is a pretty serious crime.
Could? Maybe, but curiously haven't and likely won't. This is a subject that Dubya apparently really doesn't want in the spotlight. At least not while he's still in the White House.
As to the forgery aspect, a fake document is not necessarily a forgery. The document offered by CBS was apparently pretty much made of whole cloth. I expect that in order to properly call it a forgery, someone would have to come up with the un-doctored "original". Now what do you think the odds of /that/ are?
I find it interesting that there has been much more focus on the authentication of the "evidential" document than there ever has been on the veracity of the information contained therein. While it seems there is little doubt that the document is a fake, there has been, so for, no credible or testimonial evidence presented to refute its allegations.
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