[Petronski]

For example, the fabled and distinguished chief of naval operations (CNO), Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, told me -- 30 years ago when he was still CNO -- that during his own command of US naval forces in Vietnam, just prior to his anointment as CNO, young Kerry had created great problems for him and the other top brass, by killing so many non-combatant civilians and going after other non-military targets.

"We had virtually to straight-jacket him to keep him under control," the admiral said. "Bud" Zumwalt got it right when he assessed Kerry as having large ambitions -- but promised that his career in Vietnam would haunt him if he were ever on the national stage.

Sheesh, Kerry sounds like a real psycho.

[radiohead]

Kerry sounds like a real psycho.

Boy, that's no lie. How did a guy in the Navy get so close to civilians? Is he shooting them from the boat? Jeez.

Oh my, this reminds me of something my late husband said. One day he just blurted out that he didn't know if he would go to heaven because of the stuff he had done in VietNam. He never shared the particulars, but he was a grunt and was in combat and described some of that. Obviously, when your life is at stake you do what you have to do, but he was haunted the rest of his life.

Kerry is on a boat somewhere and shooting civilians for sport??? God in heaven.

[Ann Archy]

Maybe that accounts for his nightmares that the goofy wife talked about in the Washington Post interview..."DOWN....DOWN"!!