You can't have it both ways.

Either Bush is a coward for avoiding the draft or he is a hero for avoiding becoming a war criminal.

Kerry is either a hero who betrayed his fellow soildiers when he came back or he was a hero when he came back but was a war criminal that got medals.

This is why I think the whole arguement is just for arguement's sake as opposed to being a real issue.

I think the real issue in regards to service records is credibility. To a lot of people, (on both sides) credibility is everything.

Also, like many people, I can't fathom a man virtually ignoring a 19 year Senate record. If everything Kerry has said about his service was true, I would still wonder why he would make it the centerpiece of his campaign.

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The way we get into these scrapes and get out of them, it's almost as though someone was dreaming up these situations; guiding our destiny. ~The Boy Wonder, alter ego of Dick Grayson, young ward of millionaire Bruce Wayne.

???

What someone did, or didn't do, said, or didn't say, when they were barely into their twenties should hardly be an issue when running for political office decades later.

The reason both parties keep bringing it up is because most people (including here) are dumb enough to get distracted by it.

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"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest." - Diderot

Michael Badnarik - Libertarian for President

Look, if Kerry were a serial killer in his 20's I get it. But not a single person in this county is affected in any way whatsoever by Kerry's record in Vietnam or his stance after he got back. Equally, no one is affected by Bush calling in daddy to keep him from going. IT DOESN'T MATTER. The next four years have nothing to do with Vietnam. But since it's the least important aspect of the campaign, that's right where we will focus.

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