A person with a pure conscience indeed should not be on FR.
Fondaboy was militantly antiwar as Speaker of the Yale Political Union before he ever saw the inside of a uniform. He asked his draft board to extend his student deferment to allow him to attempt to wait out the war in grad school for "necessary grad work" and his draft board disagreed with that "necessity" and so, like most who were advised that the Navy was safer and you got to take showers and got three square meals a day, Fondaboy enlisted in the Navy (no knock on naval service) but then found out that you really can be at war in the Navy no matter what the street-corner "wisdom" might have been and he found himself in the truly nasty river war in Vietnam. His track record for good fortune was not impressive. If he didn't have bad luck, he would have had no luck at all. Then to extend his nightmare in which he might be called upon to shoot and kill fellow "progressives in a hurry Viet Cong division," lest they shoot and kill him (not recognizing his own "progressive credentials" since he could not wear a Ho Chi Minh or Jane Fonda patch on his uniform), he was INJURED (!!!!), actually injured even though his father had been ambassador to Switzerland and even though he had graduated a good prep school and even though he was a Yale man!!!!! Nicked three times without losing a moment to medical care, he received purple hearts, a bronze star and a silver star. His commander must have been a preppie too or at least a "progressive in a hurry."
Then John Fonda Kerry's luck turned better. After four months in Nam, he asked for and received an early discharge no more honorable than Dubya's so that Fondaboy could run for Congress. First things first, however, and he got somebody else's medals to throw over the fence at the White House, keeping his own in reserve just in case political lightning might strike thirty + years later. He founded Viet Nam Veterans Against the War to lie about our country, its military and better men than himself and to solicit others to lie with him in the "Winter Soldier" fiasco. Some perjured themselves before Congressional committees for sensationalist anti-American coverage and to guarantee the people of Viet Nam a future of communist slavery, repression, torture and summary firing squads. Joan Baez has apologized for being a dupe and a fool whose efforts led to such results. She asked her antiwar comrades to apologize as well to America and to the people of Viet Nam. She took out full page ads in the New York Times to do so at great expense. Fondaboy kept his mouth shut then to "maintain his political viability" as Slick Willie used to say. His mentor, Hanoi Jane attacked Joan Baez.
John Fondaboy Kerry's unoriginal campaign mantra is ripped off from Dubya: "Bring it on!" Well, Fondaboy, that is exactly what we have begun to do and you have only seen the tip of the iceberg. Fondaboy will experience the entire iceberg when he is safely trapped in the Demonratic nomination. What is going to happen to Lurch shouldn't happen to a human and it won't. If Fondababy is squealing like a stuck pig over the mild material tossed his way so far, he ain't seen nothin' yet! He is going to make his former boss, Michael "Snoopy" Dukakis, look like a competent candidate.