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To: sylvester80 who wrote (55438)	9/11/2004 3:53:52 PM
From: J.B.C.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

>>You should be wondering instead why the white house has not denied any of the facts of the memos instead.<< Is this your first involvement in politics?, you are naive. Why Doesn't The White House Denounce These Forgeries? By The MinuteMan Some folks argue that these Killian documents presented by CBS still have some life, because the White House as not denounced them as forgeries. Well. If I were an earnest White House staffer, I would remind people of the wise old saying - when your opponent is digging himself a hole, all that is necessary is for good men to do nothing (or something like that). Right now the White House has ABC, NBC, CNN, the NY times, and the WaPo phoning experts and debunking the CBS story (and this latest time-warp is brutal). But if the White House announces their belief that the documents are forgeries, the Big Media will reflexively go into oppositional, Fight the Power mode and try to figure out why Bush is lying and what he is hiding. That's my free advice, anyway - let the media sharks chew on each other;