[Witchman63]

Correct me if I am wrong, but what was at issue with the whole expose' that Rather was futily trying to put together was that the Bush family put pressure on the National Guard to admit and then place the President in certain "easy" posts. For me, the story that young Bush and another guy approached their commander to volunteer for their TANGs Vietnam rotation, was common knowlege. They were told that they couldn't participate because they didnt have enough experience. Just being picky but this seems to me to be two seperate issues.

[Robert A Cook PE]

It was NOT common knowledge that Bush tried to get to Vietnam, and that he was turned down!

The media deliberately hid that info, and deliberately interviewed (repeatedly!) the people who were lying about his service, and about how dangerous flying those early jets were: over their lifetime, just over 29% of Bush's style aircraft crashed in routine training flights.