[Behind Liberal Lines]

If these were forgeries, wouldn't President Bush know that and have the White House all over the issue?

[Sacajaweau]

He'd rather let Freepers do it. It looks better while he just sits there with the cards in his hand. Whether forgeries or not, they say nothing except that Bush wished to serve, was NOT AWOL and must have been one hell of a pilot!!

He's pretty good at steering this ship, too!! He's always on Watch. God love him and protect him.

[Little Bill]

No he has us, in this matter it is better if we come up with it. Think presidential, if this is proven to be faked, as it looks now, the Whitehouse makes a passing comment but the damage is done.

These things have feet, even hard core rats that I know read Drudge.

[CedarDave]

Not if these were memos to the file and not part of Bush's official record (which two were). Regarding the other two, records continue to dribble out as they are found by the military. If fake, I suspect they know the truth, but don't want to initiate any action, but would respond to questions at the daily press briefing. It would be good to know what was said at the briefing today. If these ARE fakes, they are not good ones because they were able to be reproduced quickly and exactly using common word processing fonts.

The obvious question is why would CBS would not vet them very carefully before airing them?? I know Dan Rather is in the tank for Kerry, as reported earlier. Did he run roughshod over the other producers and editors at CBS who may have counseled further investigation?? This may have been Rather's swan song and he couldn't resist it!! Could this have been a plant by some anti-CBS hoaxers who couldn't believe that CBS would go for such obvious bait?? Fun questions to ponder this afternoon.

[cookcounty]

" If these were forgeries, wouldn't President Bush know that and have the White House all over the issue?"

Nope. You forgot about rope-a-dope. It's too early. Let the Democrats get all their morons across this bridge..... then blow it up.

[arthurus]

W will ignore this amd let refutation be taken care of by folks who are not part of his campaign. He doesnt even have to tell anyone to do it. Actually I dont think we need to bother with this at all. It only has the legs we give it. Frenchie would have takenmuch less damage from the swifties if he had kept the "refutation" far from his organization.