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In the following months, Kerry was accused of shooting himself to get the purple hearts; of having political plans even at that young age that fueled a cynical plot to get medals any way he could;

Well actually, it is true he had "political plans even at that young age". That is the only reason he went into the Navy and the only reason he went into the swifties. None of it had anything to do with duty or honor.

It was purely designed to give his self maximum chance by following in the footsteps of John Kennedy.

This from a puff piece from the Boston Glob at Click here

Upon his graduation in 1966, Kerry was given the honor of delivering the class oration. Many at Yale noticed that this young man, on his way to becoming a commissioned officer in Vietnam, was critical of the war -- and the use of American military might against communist regimes.

``What was an excess of isolationism has become an excess of interventionism,'' Kerry said in the oration. ``And this Vietnam War has found our policy makers forcing Americans into a strange corner . . . that if victory escapes us, it would not be the fault of those who lead, but of the doubters who stabbed them in the back -- notions all too typical of an America that had to find Americans to blame for the takeover in China by the communists, and then for the takeover in Cuba.''

Then, in a sentence that harkened back to the Nazi aggression that his mother had fled, he said: ``The United States must, I think, bring itself to understand that the policy of intervention that was right for Western Europe does not and cannot find the same application to the rest of the world.''

In what may have been an allusion to his own plans to enlist, Kerry added: ``We have not really lost the desire to serve. We question the very roots of what we are serving.''

Kerry's critique of American policy stood out at a time when there were few protests, and most of the public assumed Vietnam would be a winnable war, producing a fresh crop of military heroes. The speech also reflected an evolution in Kerry's own thinking about the war.

Notice Kerry was anti-war even before joining up to go to the Navy. He then as now takes a stand on two sides of an issue and call them both his own.

Notice as well that he dated Jacqueline Kennedy's half-sister and once sailed Narragansett Bay with JFK at the helm.

Maybe JFK gave the boy pointers about how to achieve success in politics. How much easier would it be for a politician to achieve his goal being a veteran vs not. How some medals would allow him to write his own ticket and it didn't matter how he got them. All he had to do was to prove he had them.

To state the obvious and calling that little piece of fact dissing Kerry is major stupid. If the dude was a bum back then as now, why would that little fact bother him?

Remember as an ex Lt. in the Navy he takes it upon his self to hold talks with the Vietcong as a private citizen. I can only wonder what exactly gave him the right to do so and what was it, in his position in life at the time was he hoping to accomplish?

No, if there is heat from his activities in his past, I expect him to have the backbone to accept that heat without reservations.

Maybe JFK gave the boy pointers about how to achieve success in politics.

"Hey, kid, you're nevah gonna get anywhere if you don't get rid of that LANTERN JAW and those GOOGLY TEETH"

Here's something I never saw before...

"In fact, Kerry has long admitted that he had corrective surgery to his jaw in the 1970s - only he maintains it was to fix a bite malocclusion that he's had since childhood, as aides told The Hill earlier this year.

Or, as Kerry himself told Vanity Fair magazine back in 1996, he had surgery on the area in question after breaking his jaw playing hockey.

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/2/3/230133.shtml

Anybody else ever see that claim before? Add it to the "Lying List"....

here's more interesting stuff: http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020603&s=crowley060302

Upon his graduation in 1966, Kerry was given the honor of delivering the class oration.

How did a mediocre student such as Kerry get to deliver the class oration? The language of the Glob excerpt is odd for 1996 antiwar. It smacks of a latter time.

Kerry did not have the courage to join up for the purpose of furthering his political career, he joined the Naval Reserve after his application to extend his 2-S exemption to study at the Sorbonne was turned down.