Trap --

You are buying into long discounted rhetoric about Kerry. Was Kerry the hero of his early press-clippings? No, he was a show-boat captain. However, he was not the worst of the showboat captains and, more importantly, he was not just a showboat captain. There is real heroism in his real record -- as most people who served with him would tell you (and as several have told me).

Further, the irony of "Swiftboat Veterans for Truth" is that there was nothing true about the name at all. With the exception of a couple hacks brought along as window-dressing, the members of that notorious 527 were (for the most part) not veterans, had not (for the most part) ever seen a swiftboat, and (without exception -- even the hacks) were not interested in Truth.

Beathan