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To: Orcastraiter who wrote (17488)	9/23/2004 7:58:27 PM
From: Alan Smithee	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 90947

CBS did not intend to do anything falsely. Nor did they believe that the documents were false. You cannot supply any evidence of it. Nor can you supply any evidence to refute it.

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (17488)	9/23/2004 8:46:44 PM
From: Oeconomicus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

That's an outrageous statement. CBS did not intend to do anything falsely. Nor did they believe that the documents were false. You cannot supply any evidence of it. LOL. Perhaps you think all the people at SeeBS involved in this story are complete morons and incompetents and had no way of knowing the docs were forgeries because they hadn't the intellectual capacity to see what was obvious to the rest of the world at first glance. That's pretty much the argument you'd have to make for your defense to hold water for even an instant. It's like if you were charged with driving the getaway car at a bank robbery and tried to defend yourself with "when they asked me to pull up and stop in front of the bank and wait with the engine running, I thought they just needed to run to the ATM and when they came running out with stockings over their heads, guns in their hands and carrying bags of money, they said that's how banks work, so I just drove away with them. I really didn't know why the police were chasing us. After all, my IQ is 60." The fact is that the people at that network, however biased, are far from incompetent boobs. They are well trained at sniffing out scam artists - that what 60-minutes is famous for. To not know the docs were forgeries, they had to choose not to know. They had to turn a blind eye to the scam developing around them. Even if they didn't conspire in their creation, they knew. Bet your house payment on it. And they are as culpable as the forger himself.

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (17488)	9/23/2004 10:15:56 PM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 90947

You fail to grasp the key facts. SeeBS was ready to run a bogus story about the forged documents showing that Saddam was buying yellowcake from Niger. The seven layers of fact checkers & the oh so scrupulous, objective producers at SeeBS somehow managed to put together a completely ficticous, yet damaging story about the President less than 2 months before an election. Any half wit could have read what Bush, the Senate Intelligence Report, plus the Butler Report - all of which said - Bush relied on British Intelligence & British Intelligence had it right - Saddam was trying to buy Yellowcake in Africa. Bush was completely right in saying that in the SOTUA. SeeBS story was an obvious hit piece that had ZERO basis in reality. Instead, SeeBS got what they thought was an even more damaging story that they failed miserably to vet before airing. And like the zealots they are, they ran with the hotter story. So fee free to cling to your feigned outrage about that author's opinion. I'll correctly remain outraged at how the completely unhinged liberal media has become in their blatant attempts to unseat this President by any means necessary.