[Political Junkie Too]

It's amazing that, in order to believe this story is true you also have to believe:

1. The rare typewriter that could have typed the memo was used at the Texas Air National Guard office for routine memos.
2. The retired general could have exerted influence after retirement.
3. The White House used the same office equipment that the Texas Air National Guard office used.

Makes sense to me... ;-)

-PJ

[Political Junkie Too]

Sorry. General should be Colonel.

-PJ

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

3. The White House used the same office equipment that the Texas Air National Guard office used.

? How so?

If you think about it, the copy of a copy of a copy nature of the fraudlent "memo" is one of the strongest indictments of it. First because that is a natural way to obscure evidence of fraud, and secondly because if the writer really was afraid of his retired former superior, the writer would have held the original close and made few if any copies.

But of course the chain of custody is a rotten apple, too - the widow and surviving son of the "author" of this "memo" wouldn't have known to even look for it, and don't know how anyone else would have found it. And if indeed copies of copies of copies have been floating around, exactly why does one of them show up only now, after Bush has been in three previous high-profile political campaigns?

Of course the fact that the "memo" is trivial to produce with Microsoft Word and would have been tedious to produce on any 1972 typewriter is the strongest evidence aside from the fact that hardly any typewriter would give you curved quotation marks - and that Times New Roman wasn't available on typewriters.