It's funny how people deceive themselves.
Kerry supporters want so badly to dismiss the SBVTs as Bush-sponsored liars on a campaign of character assassination, but anyone who has any real-world experience should be able to tell the difference between prevarication, waffling and story-swapping versus the sincere, straight-forward, no-nonsense recounting of events as witnessed by a man so secure in his honesty that he recites his facts in the face of massive legal liability should he be proven slanderous.
Thurlow stands to be ruined if he's lying. His story doesn't waver. His facts don't change. His memories (seared or otherwise) remain consistent.
Kerry stands to be ruined if Turlow is telling the truth. His story changes, or is retold through surrogates. His memories shift or blur, and the records which would exonerate (or damn) him remain shrouded in mystery.
I know who I'd buy a used car from...
You're absolutely right about the character indications. We owe a lot to these VN vets, who now fight another war against the establishment. May it be a healing for them. This time I'm on their side.
"Funny" how everything to do with Kerry is shrouded in a fog. It becomes practically impossible to get down to the simple truth, even if the issue is one so obvious as to whether he threw his medals over a fence. At some point reasonable persons will conclude that, lacking now convincing evidence otherwise, the man is suppressing the truth and manipulating opinion for his own ambitions.