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Lewy's the one I've read about.

Will wait to hear more. Seems the issue is being looked into a bit.

On a side note, Chris Matthews had Bob Kerrey on a guest, and after a break he played a long montage of John Kerry, including his '71 senate testimony, and the thing was like a pro-Kerry commercial, with music and such. Bob Kerrey said he had goosebumps.

Then Chris demanded of Bob Kerrey why George Bush doesn't just admit he joined the National Guard to avoid Vietnam (we all know this is a bee Chris has had in his bonnet for awhile regarding Bush). Nobody notices that it is a not a question pending before the president, except on Hardball. Anyway, Kerrey said Bush served honorably, but if I understood the end of their conversation correctly, they both agreed Bush "owes it" to the American people to tell us how wrong Vietnam was.

WHAT?!

OK, just had to rant a little about that, and since it ended up with Bush "owing" us an explanation for Vietnam for some reason, according to Matthews and Kerrey, I thought it tangentially fit here.

Wait....I'm having a stream of conciousness revelation. The reason they want Bush to admit Vietnam was a mess and a mistake, is that would ease up pressure on any anti-war John Kerry activities. OK, I get it now.

Bush could really open up the drain pipes if he supported the fight against the commies in Vietnam. So many people at least agree on one point: we should have never gone there.

So the Kerry forces might think they have Bush over a barrel on Vietnam.

If Bush concedes the wrongness of the war, then Kerry's zeal comes out as basically right, even if he got the atrocity estimate off by a factor or two.

If Bush upholds the rightness of the war, then his reluctance to volunteer for the front line seems like hypocrisy.

Then again, Bush might blow all this game-playing away by just telling the truth as sees it, without excess regard to his own ego.

Kerry might have his weakest point there - stumbling all over his image.