Reply #36: Doubting it -

[Mockingbird]

Whether its authentic or not needs to be checked out, I agree FWIW.

The source itself needs to be scrutinized before getting 100% on this bandwagon to be sure that its not a hoax by either side.
(One would hope the left isn't creating the same nonsense as the right).

Sorry to be suspicious - but someone unknown, with only 10 posts on the forum telling me a counter story has no more substantive credibility than the original storyline.

It IS believable from this bunch, but we still need to know.
And don't let the story die just because the water is muddied with conflicting (non)"evidence." That's the easiest trick perpetrated upon the American public - add confusing noise, so that people will go for the handiest resolution.

Anyway, arguing that because one's 3 kids were NOT ordered, doesn't prove whether or not the one(s) in question WAS (were).

They didn't need the entire army there - only a representative number, so why would you feel that de facto it disproves anything? You have not given me a basis for either believing it wholeheartedly, nor disbelieving it. At least there's a name on the original letter that can be verified as existing or ficticious. So we need to.



(Nonsequitor Aside:
For example, I'm still not convinced that the 60 minutes report on Bush's national guard record wasn't a setup by the right of overzealous producers, who fell over their own feet to get the story out, etc. But I can't claim that with any certainty, but its in line with the past record).

Follow the money, follow the resultant advantage vs downside of something being discovered as a phony.

There was no large downside for Bush's cronies & wannabes. The risk factor wasn't there. It shut down discussion of the real fact that he was avoiding everything that paper said, even if that one fabricated record wasn't valid corroboration. The guys the "broke" the story run a blog which has been instrumental in bolstering the SwiftBoat lies & other nonsense stories).