From: "Strong, Lee" <strongl at sddc.army.mil>
To: "WSFA (E-mail)" <WSFAList at WSFA.org>
Cc: "Strong, Lee" <strongl at sddc.army.mil>
Subject: [WSFA] Warnings... from Boys Crying Wolf
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 16:41:07 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

Keith...  Keith...  Keith...
	In a sidebar conversation, you expressed a wish for me to return to
WSFA.  You have a peculiar way of making me feel welcome.
	I believe that your recent postings of urban legends have
discredited Keith Lynch far more than they have discredited George Bush or
John Ashcroft.  If you really had doubts about the credibility of the site
in question before you posted it, you should not have posted it until you
checked it out.  As it is, your after the fact reservations and
protestations of concerns about my literary career sound like Dan Rather
blustering when he was caught lying about George Bush's Air National Guard
service or _The New York Times_ pretending that their Iraqi munitions story
hasn't been proven false.
	Nor does repeating the same story over and over improve your case.
I'm sure you've heard the cliche "If fifty million Frenchmen say a stupid
thing, it's still a stupid thing."  (Voltaire, I believe.)  This is even
truer if the fifty million Frenchmen say fifty million stupid things fifty
million times.
	I didn't bother to check out the site that Steve Smith posted
recently because the last time that I checked out a political site that
Steve posted, the site disproved Steve's contention.
	I hope that one day we can be friends and fellow Americans.

Lee