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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry
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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (76795)6/2/2006 11:16:35 PM
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>>Dan Rather's story was true. ...It was just the document which was phony

So it was fake but accurate? Gee, where have I heard that one before?

The standard defense of every dirty cop, now appropriated by the "liberal" left.<<

Nadine -

Try to follow this. The gist of the story was true. Here is the gist: Bush did get out of fulfilling his commitment to the Guard (which in turn he got into only because of family connections, to avoid going to Viet Nam) by taking advantage of family connections. There was a coverup to make it more difficult to prove that he had done this.

When interviewed about the phony document, the secretary who had supposedly typed it said that even though the document was not real, it did present an accurate picture of what was happening at the time.

Too hard to grasp? Maybe if I use an example it will become clear. The document is kind of like my first paragraph above. That paragraph was not written back in the early '70s by someone who was directly connected with Bush, yet it still accurately represents what happened.

Because of the outrage over the faked document, the whole point of the story was lost. If Karl Rove did plan it, he couldn't have done a better job. Make the other guys look like the villains. Brilliant.

- Allen
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