John Kerry gets a response from Vietnam vets.

[mburbank]

Bush 'hung out' with 'Kenny Boy Lay' and took loads of money from him. Rumsfled 'hung out' with Saddam Hussein and shook his hand.

The damage is done, the connection has been drawn.....and voters are pissed that they encouraged coroporate criminals who stole their retirement and despotic tyrants who used WMD on their own people.

As far as war crimes being policy, I have four words for you. Winter Soldier, Tiger force. You will find in both cases far more testimonial eyewitness evidence to american war crimes than you will for people spitting on vets. In fact, you will find no contemporary evidence at all of spitting on vitenam vets beyond the metaphorical.

On the issue of vets supporting or not supporting Kerry, I think you'll find that they're actual people with different beliefs, convictions and reaction to their war experience.

Linking Kerry with Fonda is an insult to the intelligence of all who hear it, and an indication of the contempt in which certain elements of the Republican party hold their constituents.

I think your comparison to W's right to 9/11 vs. Kerry's right to Vietnam is spurious. Both W. and Kerry were high elected officials on Septmeber 11'th. True W. held the ntional stage, but 9/11 belongs to him no more than it does to any American and far less then it does to the families, firefighters and police. If W. wants to tout his National Guard service, that would be a paralell to Kerry's service in Vietnam, another national tragedy both were around for and both reacted to in ways that define their characters.