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From Article: The second quote from the same New Yorker article the Kerry campaign wanted cited was from Kerry in the same interview: "'We started talking about the war, and Vietnam, prison -- what happened to him and all that. ... Nothing had brought us together before, and we just talked. We talked about what I had done.' Kerry was referring to the episode that McCain had denounced in the 1984 campaign. 'But by now it wasn't a big hurdle,' he went on. 'To his credit, he didn't make it one. He made it clear that he had moved beyond all that. ... The war was a tough period for a lot of people, for a lot of reasons. Both of us decided to put all that kind of stuff behind us, and work together at something.'"

Only problem is Kerry didn't leave his stuff behind him. He decided to glorify it.

This "gentlemen's club" attitude of the Senate has got to have a line somewhere.

Seeing McCain's cancer-savaged face, I find it difficult to believe that he would just "let it go" when it was Kerry's anti-war statements that were played incessantly in the POW camps and others have said that it got them harsher treatment for not giving in and agreeing with Kerry.

This Viet Nam past has got to be a bag of worms for Kerry but I fear that the MSM will gloss over it. Afterall, they made a big issue of the President's National Guard service in Alabama but have never bothered investigating for themselves, Sen. Kerry's Viet Nam claims to fame.

It's called "vetting" folks, and the DNC didn't have the opportunity to "vet" Kerry. They were so sure, with the Clinton's backing, that Dean was going to be the candidate, that they just didn't do the background checking on Kerry or they would have found all of these issues and had statements at the ready. The fact that Kerry chose to use his 4 months service in Viet Nam versus his 19+ years in the Senate is some kind of denial, the likes of which I've never seen before.

Riding in like a hero, with PH's that are of suspiscious merit, same for Silver Star and Bronze star?

I'm hoping that we can keep sending enough money to the swift boats vets for truth, that the advertisement will keep being played and that at some point, some journalist is going to challenge Kerry with the truth.

TNT