Rathergate

Lost in all the hullabaloo surrounding Dan Rather's lawsuit against CBS is the fact that the substantive allegations he made in the story still stand. It is generally accepted as fact, and could likely still be proven to an acceptable journalistic standard, that George W. Bush is/was a scheming Vietnam war dodger. Not that thousands of other children of privilege didn't also use their connections to duck out of 'Nam, but only one of them went on to become a war-mongering president of the United States who commissioned the deaths of nearly 3800 American soldiers (and counting).

But for one shoddy and [allegedly] forged document, Rather's story might have blown Dubya right out of the water. Instead, the truth about his time in the Texas Air National Guard is radioactive and likely buried in the dustbin of history. Meanwhile, the yellowcake/Niger forgery -- which was used to sell the American people on the Iraq War -- remains largely unexplored and unrevealed to the average American.




Tell me, which is the larger transgression?