[fhayek]

Kerry was in Vietnam for 120 days. In that time, he won three Purple Hearts, a silver star, and a bronze star. He commits war atrocities, sneaks around Cambodia with either the CIA or the SEALS and still has time to make home movies. What a guy.

[xzins]

This guy did more in such a short time than any war hero I know of since Vince whasisname on the old "Combat" tv series.

And you've got to figure that it takes some time for the paperwork in a non-computer age to work its way up and down a chain of command for all these awards to take place, so he was doing these great heroics in the "early" part of his lengthy 4 months in country.

I simply don't buy it.

I hope some media people are savvy enough to realize that top-secret missions don't come down to lieutenant j.g.'s direct from the top without going through the commander and operations section of the unit.