perfidy

Kerry really seems to want his cake and eat it too. If the soldiers in Vietnam were responsible for rapes, atrocities, and behaving in a manner reminiscent of Ghengis Khan as Kerry claimed that they did, perhaps that does make those who didn't serve there better qualified to be the leaders of our country. If soldiers in Vietnam, including Kerry, didn't do those things then perhaps if Kerry is to make such political hay out of his many medals he really ought to repudiate his comments from 1971. Either way, he's being hypocritical.

More information on Kerry's behavior after he came back from the 'Nam can be found at QandO, focusing on Operation RAW. (Link courtesy of Rocket Jones who has had a lot of good posts up recently.) Also, he apparently met with the North Vietnamese more than he had previously admitted, as FBI files show. This is arguably illegal. I don't think Kerry is being particularly forthcoming about his activities in the seventies in connection with the VVAW.