WHEN THE GLOVES COME OFF
I've said it before, the Dems better get off the National Guard crap, fast, because it can only bite them in the butt in the long run.
They can run around calling Kerry a "hero" all they want, but the fact is he spent a grand total of four months in-country, which is less time than Gore spent as a combat correspondent. Many Vietnam vets call Kerry's Purple Hearts "band-aids" because they were issued for minor, insignificant flesh wounds. The DNC likes to wheel out Max Cleland as the point man in attacking Bush, because he lost three limbs while he was in Vietnam. Well, that part is true, but portraying Cleland as suffering these horrific assualts on his body in combat is demonstrably false. And his lack of any Purple Heart proves it out, as does his own account of how it happened.