I heard that too! I just shook my head in amazement.
Let's compare Bush's war record to Kerry's: Bush flies planes in the states, Kerry goes to Nam for four months. Both served but in different capacities. Bush gets an honorable discharge and 30 years later, goes on to become CinC and wins two wars in 2 years with historically minimal causlties. One war is in Afghanistan which kicked USSR bootie and the tsecond, Iraq.
Kerry returns from Nam as a protester, slanders his band of brothers as war criminals, fights for the communists/socialists for 30 years while maintaining an abyssmal senate voting record and then morphs into war hero to run for the President while disavowing most of the aforementioned.
Gee, I just can't decide who I'm going to vote for....
I said in another thread that the President's service is similar to the WWII service of John Kerry's father. The elder Kerry was a stateside test pilot for the Army Air Force. He never saw a 109 or the flak over Germany. I don't think anyone would question his service in the war. The President served as aninterceptor pilot. He was NOT a weekend warrior. He stood ready to fly missions in his 2 plus years on active duty. Did he face the dangers of RPGs and AKs? No, but he served in a very useful capacity and could have been called to combat duty had circumstances warranted.