Yes. I am giving Kerry the benefit of the doubt that he's not lying here. I'd rather stick with the things we know aren't true (like Christmas in Cambodia --- even Brinkley now says it's not true), than try to claim he's lying about something that turns out to be true, since it's plausible and consistent with what he has told Brinkley.
There's no question Kerry's a serial liar. But the way the RAT media works, we have to be pretty sure he's lying before leveling any charges, or they will use the one mistake to claim we have no credibility at all. That is what they have been trying to do.
Washington Post 8/21/04
"Although Kerry campaign officials insist that they have published
Kerry's full military records on their Web site
(with the exception of medical records shown briefly to reporters earlier this year),
they have not permitted independent access to his original Navy records.
A Freedom of Information Act request by The Post for Kerry's records produced six pages of information.
A spokesman for the Navy Personnel Command, Mike McClellan,
said he was not authorized to release the full file,
which consists of at least a hundred pages. "