"The issue here is, as I have heard it raised, is was he present and active in Alabama at the time he was supposed to be," said Kerry, a decorated Vietnam War veteran. "I don't have the answer to that question and just because you get an honorable discharge does not in fact answer that question."
No, the issue was Kerry compared serving in the National Guard to being a draft-dodger, and insiuated W was AWOL. Of course, the media will never call him on his quotes from just a few days ago.