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Who harmed the country more? GWB in the Guard or Kerry as an anti-war activist?

That is the REAL issue.

As a male in high school who saw the draft looming in the early 1970s, I remember
mulling my options:
1. Enlist and try to get an assignement as either a sniper or as a medic (yeah,
I was a conflicted type)
2. Try for CO status even if my church was ambivalent about it
3. Go to Canada and ride out the situation with relatives
4. Take my chances that the draft wouldn't get me
5. Get an educational/marriage deferrment

Two factors saved me from needing to pick an option: first I had a spontaeously
collapsed lung in high school (corrected by surgery) and the war/draft ended before
I graduated.

But in absolute honesty and transparency...If the need to decide HAD come to pass,
I would have listened long and hard to Kerry and his WinterSoldier troupe
and thought harder on my option being ANYTHING but enlisting.

So, here I admit my shame.
And present my truthful, personal accusation of John Forbes Kerry for
giving aid and comfort to the enemy by discouraging guys like myself.