Bush Service Memos Questioned

Twirlip of the Mists writes "Last night, CBS News released a set of memos dated 1972 and 1973 that are purported to raise questions about President Bush's National Guard service. Some are saying those memos might have been produced with a computer. Blogger Scott Johnson ran with the story first this morning, raising questions about the typography of the memos. Blogger Charles Johnson (no relation) went one step further, actually reproducing one of the memos in its entirety using Microsoft Word's default settings. Matt Drudge is running the story now with a link to a CNS News article that includes quotes from typography experts at font foundries Afga Monotype and Bitstream. There's a round-up of key facts about the story on this blogger's web site." The experts in the CNS News story and others could come to no conclusion, and even if the documents are not originals or photocopies of originals, that doesn't necessarily mean that they aren't faithfully retyped copies of originals. CBS continues to assert the documents are authentic.

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dupe

[Johnny Mnemonic]

Dupe from about 6 hours ago. The thread discusses the forgery allegations, although Twirlip obviously wants to make it more of a discussion.

I thought I removed this topic section from my preferences just so I could avoid this kind of crap. If I wanted political spin, I'd go to Fox News. Instead, I go to /. for News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters; and there was precious little political discussion here last time around in 2000, when the election promised to resolve the Microsoft lawsuit, and so was arguably on topic. Now it's hardly at all.

Re:Sorry, Sir, We're out of tin foil today

[nursedave]

I think Bush's unprovoked war in Iraq and the resulting disaster for the war on terrorism

Dude, what planet are you living on? Unprovoked? Hardly. It has been shown time and again that Iraqi agents had met with al Qaida representatives in Europe and the mid east; what were they doing, trading coupons? Hussein admitted to having WMD programs and stockpiles. He spent about a decade playing with the UN, kicking the inspectors out if they got to close, and now I'm supposed to believe that, despite no proof of doing so, he voluntarily got rid of these WMD? If by 'got rid of' you mean 'sent to friendly neighboring country which also supports terrorism,' then yes. Any other option is absurd.

Now, how is the 'disaster for the war on terrorism' relevent? What disaster? Our military has kicked the shit out of those idiots in their own back yard. Are they still hiding and killing? Sure; the Israelis have been dealing with this shit for 60 years; the British before that. But to call it disaster, when numerous incidents of terrorism have been averted - well, you *are* ready for a tin hat, aren't you?

Re:An analysis

[nursedave]

What 'Big Lie'? That is more of a left-wing strategy. ie, Michael Moore's movie/books; taking credit for the economic growth of the 90's (Must have been that huge fucking tax increase that left us with so much more to spend); taking credit for lowered violent crime rates (must have been the midnight basketball); suggesting socialism works, healthcare or otherwise (Must be the oh-so-financially stable healthcare systems in Great Britain that make you say that).... And so on.

Re:An analysis

[demachina]

Twirp, Twirp, Twirp. Have you turned so chicken shit you can't take me on under your login any more. I see you still have your formidable debating style, call everything you disagree with crap, with no substantce in yuour rebuttal and hurling profanity at the person saying it. You do seem to be a smart person Twirp, but you are really good at hiding it most of the time.

By the way Twirp, exactly what news organization do you work for. I'd like to read some of your stuff and see if the quality is as low as many, though not all, of your posts here.

If all of my theories are crap you need to propose a new alternative, or are you trying to deny the facts about Little George youth when he was a cocaine sniffing, drunk, partying frat boy who was constantly being bailed out of jams by his daddy. I assure there is record of little George doing community service at PUSH. I'm pretty sure a partier frat boy wouldn't do it out of the goodness of his heart. How do you explain it?

Since your tongue tied at the moment I'll help with more theories, I guess its possible CBS forged the docs but that would have been an insane thing to do on their part.

I suppose the Kerry campaign did it but again it would be insane for them to do such a piss poor job of it since it just makes them look bad.

Please share with us your infinite wisdom, Twirp. You are the only one that knows the truth and its just not right for you to keep depriving us, your most ardent fans, of that one and only truth, known only to you.

Re:An analysis

[Snaller]

Just take some money from the poor - like our president.