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...only Barnes saying it should be investigated further. I didn't see Hume on Sunday, but someone posted here that he said, approximately, "Kerry volunteered to serve, that should be the end of it".

That seems to be the crux of the argument. Barnes is saying that the swift boat veterans are also decorated, and also served, and yet nobody is giving them the same benefit of doubt. If Kerry is attacked over his activities in Vietnam, he's defended on the basis that he served honorably, but that same honor is not being shown to the swift boat veterans.

It may be that the next mantra is that Kerry "volunteered to serve" while others only served when drafted.

-PJ

It may be that the next mantra is that Kerry "volunteered to serve" while others only served when drafted...Yes, this will probably be the next strawman - of course his side will never mention that he only volunteered because he knew he was going to be drafted, so he went into the Navy thinking he'd be safe from combat, except that before he arrived in Vietnam his unit's mission was changed and he ended up under fire (most of it from his own weapons, apparently).....

The hypocrisy of the defense of Kerry/attacks on the Swiftvets is getting ridiculous...It's "despicable" (probably the only big word Colmes knows, since he likes to use it so often) to question Kerry because he served the country, and any Swiftvet who does is a lying, immoral, politically-motivated churl (not that Kerry's whole service wasn't formed by his own political motivations)...laughable.....