We should remain on all that we DO know, which is utterly damning.

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2nd line, after "Pilot Trainee"

by the time i read about the "forged" documents, that myth had already been pretty mmuch debunked.  i refer you to these threads:
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Stop sulking.

1.  If the originals are around, it should be easy to prove whether they are typewritten or not, because of the impact indentations on the paper.  This won't prove they aren't forged, but it will prove their bona fides as typewritten documents.  
2.  If they aren't around, it should be possible to look at the characteristics of the letters to see if they are composed of dots (inkjet/laserjet) or not.  
3.  It does seem odd that this "forgery" stuff comes out so conveniently when other documents released at the same time are obviously not forgeries.  Let's try a little distraction, shall we?  Cast doubt on all the records, so Bush can keep lying about his service, shall we?  Is CBS complicit in this?  Is fawning and servile Dan party to this?
4.  How come this same press that took so long to check the validity of the SBVFT claims is all over the "forgery" claim?  Did we get a little boost from the BC04 folks, SCLM?

-- The speed at which the right-wing responded

-- Rove's history (with some people thinking he bugged his own office in a Texas governor's race to cast suspicion on the opposition)

-- The sloppiness of the forgery -- wouldn't anyone in their right mind use a 1960s-era typewriter?

-- A classic misdirection technique of "admitting" some small truth while crafting an offense, apparently by the opposition, that makes the larger picture seem more horrendous than the original transgression.

This whole package is too neat, clean and fast. They package something everyone knows and no one cares about too much, cover it in shit so it stinks, and put it in wrapping paper with everything but a DNC return address.

http://www-1.ibm.com/ibm/history/history/year_1941.html

1941: IBM announces the Electromatic Model 04 electric typewriter, featuring the revolutionary concept of  proportional spacing. By assigning varied rather than uniform spacing to different sized characters, the Type 4 recreated the appearance of a printed page, an effect that was further enhanced by a typewriter ribbon innovation that produced clearer, sharper words on the page. The proportional spacing feature became a staple of the IBM Executive series typewriters.

It is fully capable of creating those documents.

The most interesting twist was the interview on 60 Minutes II last night with Killian's secretary of 20 years.  She was the one who typed up all of Killian's memos.

She testified to the following:

1. Bush was a gentleman, but was well known and somewhat resented for thinking the rules didn't apply to him.
2. Bush disobeyed a direct order from Killian to take the physical he had skipped.
3. The documents Rather had were NOT documents that she had typed.
4. However, the contents were virtually identical to memos she DID type up.

These docs are an obvious hoax.  However, the question remains: did someone on the left forge them (very crudely) to damage Bush?  Or did someone on the right forge them (intentionally crudely) to discredit the real memos and all of the other, legitmate and documented evidence in Bush's military records.

Check out Bush's ARPC records that have been released from the White House.  Bush was labeled a "non-locatee" (deserter who has been AWOL for over 3 months), moved from the TexANG to the ARPC, and put on Inactive Status (on September 15, 1973).  Bush's own Retirement Credit Summary for 1973-74 (AF Form 526) lists him as being assigned Inactive Status on 730915 - in black and white.

Naval Regulations and US Statutory Law state that a commissioned officer who still has an uncompleted MSO (Military Service Obligation) can not be taken off of active service and can not be put on Inactive Status unless he is court-martialed or declared a deserter.

The docs ain't forgeries, guys. They are all on the web and can be gotten from the ARPC (Air Reserve Processing Center) in Denver, Colorado. There are dozens of confirmatory docs available for anyone who understands the lingo and is patient enough to look through the blizzard of docs (many duplicates or illegible, but not all) that the White House has released.  Et tu...

Check out his OETR from TexANG for 1 May 72 through 30 Apr 73, stating that he has been absent from Texas for a year.  Check out the APRC "Note of Correction" which denied Bush credit for any training in Alabama, because he had not been officially approved for transfer and because his non-flying training (he had been grounded when he missed the physical) was not acceptable because his AFSC (specialty classification) was "Pilot - Fighter Intercepter."

There is also no DD44 certifying "satisfactory participation" filed for that year.  Absense of "satisfactory participation" is automatic grounds for Inactive Status.  Missing just 10% of a year's obligations, let alone the entire year, is enough to get you kicked off active duty (as he was).

There are none so blind as those who will not see.