I just found this on Google news:

>The Dallas Morning News
>
>AUSTIN, Texas - (KRT) - The man named in a disputed memo as exerting
>pressure to "sugar coat" President Bush's military record left the Texas Air National
>Guard a year and a half before the memo was supposedly written, his own
>service record shows.
>
>An order obtained by The Dallas Morning News shows that Col. Walter "Buck"
>Staudt was honorably discharged on March 1, 1972. CBS News reported this week
>that a memo in which Staudt was described as interfering with officers' negative
>evaluations of Bush's service, was dated Aug. 18, 1973.
>
>That added to mounting questions about the authenticity of documents that seem
>to suggest Bush sought special favors and did not fulfill his service.
>
>Staudt, who lives in New Braunfels, Texas, did not return calls seeking comment.
>His discharge paper was among a packet of documents obtained by The Dallas
>Morning News from official sources during 1999 research into Bush's Guard record.

I think the Microsoft Word overlay was bullet proof evidence of fraud. This added
information removes all doubt.

Something my dad taught me years ago: "When caught in a lie, the best response
is to become wildly indignant".

Dan Rather has two options:

1) Become wildly indignant.
2) Retire from CBS and let Kerry go to hell.

Gary