Did Kerry deserve his medals?

[Phasmida]

And for your reference, I do not have to imagine any roles reversed.
I see both dubious major parties in the USA to be swollen with waffle and hypocrisy.

We are definitly in agreement here. Although my skepticism of John Kerry may make me sound like a huge Bush supporter, I find them both to be dispicable, as well as American politics in general. In England (or so I am told), people who run for office are only given a very limited time for their campaign. I wish they would do that here.

 

[Straybow]

Despicable? Surely you exaggerate. Politics is the means by which we choose who gets to make the big decisions. Do you want that choice based on a two week long popularity contest like a student election?

The long campaign gives plenty of opportunity to find the good and the bad in a candidate. Rather find out during the campaign than months later when there is little than can be done.

 

[samildanach]

You can find the full story at chicagotribune.com (registration required). Rood is an editor at that paper now.

It is intersting that Kerry knew this guy and IIRC Seymour Hersch also worked for the tribune in his earlier days. Hersch is the guy who broke the Abu grubby story. He also made further claims that he had tapes of the guards there sodomising young Iraqi boys.

What are the odds that Kerry,Rood and Hersch are pals. I'm assuming that the child porn laws in the U.S. are similar to those of Britain so they won't be able to broadcast the film or stills from it as part of the democratic campaign.
But again what are the odds the democrats will be able to work round it. I remember Hersch said that the screams of the boys were what was worst about the film. I think Hersch may be priming the U.S. for a campaign vid. featuring the culprits in dress uniform overlayed with the sound track of the screams of the boys they were sodomising.

I think Kerry probably has access to the material that will crush the protests and claims of U.S. service personel. It really depends how badly the democrats want to win and if they have the guts to do it.