Brucie:

Unlike Bush, Dan Rather made an effort, if not sufficient, to find out whether the documents were valid or were not.

The documents were not.

Oddly enough, the situation which the documents were reporting was correctly described -- the ground truth according to witnesses at the time was that Bush was using pull to get an easy tour. Them's the facts. Condemn Rather all you like. But remember what the flap is really about -- not an honest mistake, but a conscious deception by a son of privelege.

Bush did lie about WMD and in doing so, he may have been the innocent tool of warmongers, rather than a vicious liar, as he first seemed to be. If so, I can forgive him for his stupidity. But I cannot support the idea he is qualified in any way to sit inthe Oval Office. He's either a patsy and too dumb to run a county, or he's as dark of soul as Darth Vader. Your call.

Rather just stepped in shit through his appetite for a story. He deserves far more of a break than Bush does, with he blood of Mesopotamia in his hands.

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