This is great. The truth is going to destroy Lt. Kerry.
Kerry wants Vietnam to be the issue. I would rather make Iraq and national defense the issue instead.
None of this will matter. It will be in the news as a "Look how desperate these people are!" item for about 1 day.
This will have no legs.
My fear is that liberals and Dems don't care one whit about the truth. They just care about getting rid of W. Kerry has no campaign unless you want to call it an anti-Bush campaign. He stands for nothing. Zip. Nada.
This is a completely different story than the thrice-wounded, heroic and decorated war veteran has been giving us for some time now. And apparently all the external facts are the same (ordered to Viet Nam, served on a "swift boat" with the mission of patrolling river waters, engaged in several fire fights in a "free fire" zone, appeared before superior officers, and transferred to a ship far from the war zone).
This whole blowup probably makes John Kerry almost wish he had never introduced the subject. Notice that he considers the four months in Viet Nam to be the HIGH point of his life. And by some magic transformation, it makes John Kerry a sage and knowledgable Presidential candidate, able to turn miraculous feats of statesmanship and stupendous wizardy in the fields of economics and judicial choices.
John Kerry would be a reprise of Jimmy Carter. Without even a comic relief brother like Billy.
However, if history repeats ... it will not touch KetchUp-Kerry.
What history? Compare the Col. Holmes letter regarding klintoon's draft-evasion ... known well before his first Presidential election ... and it had no impact at all.
The establishment media will do the same "bob and weave" here ... their goal is ABB ... "Anybody But Bush."
The constant pressure will cause him to publicly confess, and in an emotional closure that is "spirituallly gratifying" for liberals, they will support him even stronger.
The above story includes information indicating that Lt. Kerry committed a serious crime under the U.C.M.J. by reporting several false statements to his superiors.
Now, when they actually discovered that, has much to do with whether or not the events have any bearing at present.
For serious war crimes, the Navy may prosecute. On the other hand, given that the Navy has not brought up any of the charges being publicly bandied about, then the case was considered closed long ago.
The only case left is the prosecution brought forth now in the public eye, and John Kerry's admissions on the stand, are likely to really make a hero out of him, for having the courage to 'fess up.
Unless, a substantial body of evidence is gathered, proving that, beyond a reasonable doubt, he committed a violation of serious, chargeable offenses under the U.C.M.J.
If the evidence is not there, for charging him, then Lt. Kerry's detractors are only building him up for a cleansing of the soul, about Vietnam, that many will embrace ... just to make it all go away.