Has anyone suggested that Rove may have had a hand in setting up Rather and CBS? It's a pretty good tactic: Cover up the truth with forged documents revealing the truth and then expose the forgeries. George Orwell would have taken note of this.

Does anyone else think the outrage over this has just the slightest whiff of bullshit? The memos that the lapdogs were flapping their jowls over have never been proven to be false, and even the investigation was unable to prove that CBS was politically motivated.

And of course the Fightin' Keyboarders are creaming their pants with the predictions of how they'll bring the media. Somehow I don't think we'll see the same outrage over Fox News.

well what kind of motivation do you think it was...LOL

Thsi type of story makes it easy for Fox to report and you decide...Rather was wrong for going with the story.

It's funny that the truth of the memos was never questioned.

Rather jumped because it was "leaked" that it was going elsewhere.

Namely the trolls that report directly to Rove beneath/above Rather colluded with implants he has at Fox, CNN, ABC, to start a 'rumor' and make CBS juicy to jump the lead.

If you did get to see that extent of their vetting it would be interesting. Aside from that fact the memos cannot be proven either way because the documents were "lost in transit" .

PS- AWOL was still photographed with a medal either unit he served in was not awarded which is punishable with time.

Rather jumped because it was "leaked" that it was going elsewhere.

Namely the trolls that report directly to Rove beneath/above Rather colluded with implants he has at Fox, CNN, ABC, to start a 'rumor' and make CBS juicy to jump the lead.

If you did get to see that extent of their vetting it would be interesting. Aside from that fact the memos cannot be proven either way because the documents were "lost in transit" .

PS- AWOL was still photographed with a medal either unit he served in was not awarded which is punishable with time.

Rumors are what got us in Iraq...so Rather was wrong, no?

Copy of Op-Ed letter to the Pensacola News Journal:

President Bush says there is no need to hold anyone in his administration accountable for what has happened in Iraq the voters have already spoken.
Someone is normally “held accountable” for something when wrong-doing is acknowledged. I would suggest that the blame for Iraq, and what it truly is, is being shifted to those that voted for “W”. Almost one-half of the country recognized this and didn’t vote for him.

His assessment of who is and who is not to blame is a clear indication that someone, somewhere, in the current administration has said, “Mr. President, Iraq is a mess”, to which he replied, “It’s not my fault, I was only doing what the American people wanted me to do!”.

Actually, though, with the commission reporting after the election, “no WMD existed, no ties from Al Qaida to Iraq, Saddam was complying with the UN requests, it becomes obvious that members of this administration lied and others were incompetent. George Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, George Tenet, Paul Bremer, Tommie Franks, the list goes on and on. Bush and Cheney aren’t accountable, you voted for them, Rumsfeld is Rumsfeld, and the others got medals. Go figure.

He is just speaking from personal experience. He has never had to be accountable before. If Iraq implodes, there will be a first time for him.

Posted on DKos last week, there was a run-up of the FOIA articles that the AP requested for ALL of W's military records. They have yet to get all of them. Or, critical ones are mysteriously missing.

Regardless, the fact remains he WAS AWOL, people covered up for him, documents were forged, there were many people complicit and derelict in their duty under the UCMJ.

Now, if someone had the money, time and the lawyers, a reputable military group should sue.

What, besides nothing, gives this waste of life the right to carry on unscathed, while members of the Ohio National Guard get courts martialed and dishonorably discharged for utilizing abandoned equipment at the start of the war?

This is fucking absurd.

Posted on DKos last week, there was a run-up of the FOIA articles that the AP requested for ALL of W's military records. They have yet to get all of them. Or, critical ones are mysteriously missing.

Regardless, the fact remains he WAS AWOL, people covered up for him, documents were forged, there were many people complicit and derelict in their duty under the UCMJ.

Now, if someone had the money, time and the lawyers, a reputable military group should sue.

What, besides nothing, gives this waste of life the right to carry on unscathed, while members of the Ohio National Guard get courts martialed and dishonorably discharged for utilizing abandoned equipment at the start of the war?

This is fucking absurd.

Nice. A double post.

Stupid blogger.

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