[elfman2]

" It's preposterous that he was in VN for five years."

Is it? In the Navy? On tour in a combat zone? Also, he didn’t claim he “knew” anything, certainly not in an official capacity like your silly analogy. He had an opinion, and calmed a valor that’s in doubt, but not yet disproved. Innocent until guilty is a fundamental principle of freedom.

[Travis McGee]

Now you sound JUST like Dan Rather. It's "possible" that Killian typed those memos back in 1973, using today's MS Word default settings.