<< And let's clear up this misstatement about Kerry volunteering to go to Vietnam. As I understand it, he volunteered for the Navy. He got sent to Vietnam. Bush volunteered for the National Guard, and could very well have been sent to Vietnam. Lots of National Guard were sent to Vietnam. It was NO guarantee of avoiding the war. >>
Kerry did not enlist in the United States Navy -- but in the [Inactiive] US Naval Reserves -- pretty much the Navy's much safer equivalent of the [EG: Texas] Air National Guard.
His chances of going into active service in Vietnam or anywhere else were way slimmer than were those of an Air Force Reserve/National Guard fighter pilot and everything he says and/or has ever said to the contrary is pure and unadulterated BarbAra Streissand!
Kerry is a scurrilous bastard -- lower than shark $h*t!
Thanks for that correction.
I'm sick of hearing how he "volunteered to go to Vietnam."