[VadeRetro]

Thanks for that. He didn't misrepresent where he got the charges.

However, I hadn't realized until this thread that he was originally skeptical, especially since when he was before the Senate FRC he tried to reinforce the hearsay testimony with recollections from his own service.

So he came out of Vietnam believing that most soldiers served honorably, went to one anti-war rally, flipped, and within months was selling the new line to the Senate. Hmmmm. A vision of the future.

[secretagent]

Yes I hadn't read that either, that Kerry had initial scepticism.

I can see suspecting that more My Lais awaited discovery, since the Army didn't seem zealous in uncovering and prosecuting the first one. On the other hand, Mark Lane had used bogus atrocity stoies, and he and his friend had

Kerry had a "conversion experience" at the WSI, it sounds like. Picked up the zeitgeist and ran with it.

So he came out of Vietnam believing that most soldiers served honorably, went to one anti-war rally, flipped, and within months was selling the new line to the Senate. Hmmmm. A vision of the future.

More than a bit of the method actor in Kerry, I think. He gets into his character.

I don't want the nation dragged into his drama.