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Thursday, November 2, 2006Kerry's Remark: Right either waySEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER EDITORIAL BOARDRepublicans evidenced their election desperation by braying about an offhand comment that Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., made at a California college rally."Education" Kerry said "-- if you make the most of it and you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."Was Kerry making fun of the president, or warning students against the pitfalls awaiting the undereducated in general?It doesn't matter. Kerry was right either way.Kerry wasn't saying -- regardless...

Something started bothering me tonight about Kerry's action reports -- MINES. Only in action's involving LTJG Kerry do we find reports of mines detonating without contact near Kerry's boat. How is it LTJG Kerry is the only skipper of a swift boat who encounters mines that mysteriously detonate before a boat actually runs over it? There is one exception of course, and that is PCF-3 which all documentation makes clear that a mine had detonated under it after running over it. Going over the entire chronology of COSDIV 11 you won't find anyone reporting mines detonating near a swift...