“What Difference Would it Make?”
Please note this paragraph in the New York Times “Fake … But Accurate” article, quoting David Van Os, the lawyer for Bill Burkett—one of the prime suspects in the memo forgeries:
Asked what role Mr. Burkett had in raising questions about Mr. Bush’s military service, Mr. Van Os said: “If, hypothetically, Bill Burkett or anyone else, any other individual, had prepared or had typed on a word processor as some of the journalists are presuming, without much evidence, if someone in the year 2004 had prepared on a word processor replicas of documents that they believed had existed in 1972 or 1973 - which Bill Burkett has absolutely not done” - then, he continued, “what difference would it make?”