While I wouldn't go so far as calling John "The Snake" Kerry a "fraud," I would suggest he is a phony, traitorous, POS, A*hole, who was "singurlarly" responsible for the pain, suffering and disgrace we Nam Vets had to suffer all these years.
Everytime I go to Church, I pray to God that he will run in 08, so we can finally, once and for all, bury the SOB and his cotterie of VVAW, lying, scumbags.
While I cannot attest to whether he "earned" his 3 purple hearts, if the following is any indication of what was used to treat his wounds, then the matter is definitely open to debate. lol
The Israeli Security Fence
In October 2003, Kerry said Israels unilateral construction of a security fence was a barrier to peace.
I know how disheartened Palestinians are by the decision to build the barrier off the Green Line," he told the Arab American Institute National Leadership Conference. We don't need another barrier to peace. Provocative and counterproductive measures only harm Israelis.
But less than a year later, in February 2004, he reversed himself, calling the fence "a legitimate act of self-defense," and saying "President Bush is rightly discussing with Israel the exact route of the fence to minimize the hardship it causes innocent Palestinians.