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I don't think there is a gotcho on this. I think it is small doubts, leading to questions, leading to bigger doubts, leading to even more questions, and eventually a nagging but convincing feeling this guy Kerry is a fraud and a liar.

It is a gotcha. If Kerry was OinC as he claimed, he would have had to file an After Action Report if there was hostile fire. If he can't produce the report, then it means he is lying about either being the OinC for the mission, or he was lying about the hostile fire.

I hear what you are saying, but since the media don't treat this with a headline as a "smoking gun" (which is exactly what it is) it takes a lot of time for the elements in the story to get out. It's taken 3 weeks of constant efforts by the Swiftboat vets to give this story real legs. This new fact we are talking about could have been discovered by a good reporter in a couple of days.