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All it will take to destroy Kerry is a televised interview with a former 'Nam POW who saw fellow POWs tortured or killed while Jane Kerry and John Fonda were aiding and abetting the enemy...I hope you're right - but IMO far too many from the Vietnam generation have virtually their entire perceptions of themselves as being morally and intellectually superior still invested in the idea that they were correct in protesting the war, and far too many of these have by now infested the highest places in our political, media and academic cultures. Thus we have toads like political operative, analyst Laurence O'Donnell smugly and authoritatively asserting with a straight face that "the protests shortened the war and saved thousands of lives". For these cadres to undertake an honest evaluation of what they really brought on with their anti-war activity and admit that just maybe they were wrong would destroy what they had believed about themselves most of their adult lives - I think most of them (except for a rare few like David Horowitz and Dennis Miller) will deny and resist such reevaluation probably 'til their dying breaths........