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Fox News Sunday showed videos of some of the Swift Boat Vets speaking in favor of Kerry during the '90s. This is a confusing issue. When Kerry saved Rassman, he was awarded largely because they were under fire. One of the Swift vets pointed out that they stayed in the kill zone that day for an hour and no one was hurt by the enemy fire. Seems unlikely.

Then there is the Cambodia issue, which I think looks likely to have been a lie. He claimed he was in Cambodia on Christmas Eve of 1968, and that it was seared into his memory. This looks untrue. Big damn deal. Moving on.

There is another Swift Boat Vet ad featuring POWs. A POW says Kerry (when he got home) gave the Vietnamese for free what the POWs were taking torture to avoid saying. Here is where I think you find the real issues with Kerry. After he came back from Vietnam he betrayed his fellows. I think this is why many of these people are making a stink, and they should be honest about that and move on. Kerry was a dickwad when he got home, that doesn't make his service cowardly.

The best outcome of all of this would be for Kerry to quit running on his 4 months of service in a war 40 years ago (I don't care if he mentions it, Vietnam service is something to respect), and instead run on his service in government. I haven't seen nearly enough evidence for me to conclude that Kerry served dishonorably, but is that really more relevant to this campaign than his 20 years in the Senate?