[abner]

Kerry just admitted that he personally requested an early release from service, so he can work against the war!

I heard him say so he could work harder against the war.

Does that mean he was doing things to undermine our troops while he was in theatre???

That one jumped out at me!

[abner]

See my #139.

[Eva]

O'Neil pointed out that he heard that the real reason that Kerry claimed he wanted to leave the Navy was to run for Congress.

[Interesting Times]

I heard him say so he could work harder against the war.

Does that mean he was doing things to undermine our troops while he was in theatre???

That one jumped out at me!

You might be onto something. According to Wikipedia, Kerry turned against the war before he ever saw combat:

Kerry lost five friends in war, including his Yale classmate Richard Pershing who was killed in action on February 17, 1968. The death had a devastating impact on Kerry, who expressed his grief in a wrenching letter to his parents, writing: "If I do nothing more, and if I convince the others to do nothing more, it will be to give every effort we can to somehow make this a better world to live in and to end once and for all this willingness to expend ourselves in this stupid, endless self-distruction [sic]."