On Oct 23, 7:31 pm, "Vorlonagent"  wrote:
> "Rob Perkins"  wrote in message
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> > On 10/23/07 1:08 PM, in article QwsTi.78$B52...{at}newsfe12.lga, "John W.
> > Kennedy"  wrote:
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> >> David E. Powell wrote:
> >>> Dude, Fox News hardly has a monopoly even if they got
caught in some
> >>> fabrication. Actually fake documents sounds more like the CBS story
> >>> that left Dan Rather in trouble.
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> >> The only /proven/ falsifications in that affair were those coming from
> >> the ignorant (or lying) "experts" who claimed that
typewriters available
> >> in the 70s couldn't do proportional type. Hell, my father's secretary
> >> had a proportional-spacing typewriter in the 50s.
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> > The AWOL allegations were probably true, at least insofar as Bush got a
> > better rap during his military service than virtually anyone else could
> > have
> > dreamed of. But the guy who falsified the docs came on CBS and admitted
> > that
> > he falsified them.
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> The AWOL allegations might be true and might not.  I would have to do some
> digging to quote but I have seen posts at another forum from people who were
> familiar with Guard service.  Those posters said there was nothing untoward
> about Bush actions.  IIRC there was/is some kind of point system in placeand
> if one amassed the necessary points, one could take a longer break or leave
> service early, which IIRC, is what Bush did.
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> Whether or not his shortcuts through the Guard system occurred within the
> confines of the rules is an open question.  It's only the Rathergate memos
> that lend strength to the "AWOL" allegations.  Without them
it's a claim
> made by a person or two with nothing on paper to back them up.  (and an
> attempt at document forgery to discredit them)
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> John

Also, I think it is very fortunate the forgeries were caught before
the election. Imagining the blow to the media if they had been
discovered to be dodgy afterwards is not a pleasant exercise.
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