Michael Baier writes:
>Not much on military records for Bush, Cheney, Rush Limbaugh or Denys and
>Brice.
>They (the first 3) chickened out right from the beginning. Don't know about
>the other 2.
>Easy to then point fingers.
>Better to stick then with Mr. McCain. Maybe he knows more as he was there.

Lots of people served in the U.S. military during the Viet Nam conflict, and far more did not serve.  This was the way things were in those times.  Most people I knew at the time were looking for ways to stay out of Viet Nam.  It doesn't bother me that George Bush managed to get out of combat by joining the National Guard.  It doesn't bother me that Bill Clinton used his Rhodes scholarship to avoid military service.  It doesn't bother me that John Kerry gamed the system to cut short his tour in Viet Nam.  On the other hand, John Kerry representing himself as a war hero, when so many of his comrades say he was anything but does concern me.  Lying about his comrades to promote his anti-war beliefs, if he did, would concern me as well.  To dismiss the charges as nonsense simply because they conflict with your political leanings is behavior suited to an ostrich.  I think the charges warrant scrutiny.  I hope they prove to be false and are exposed as such, but to dismiss them as politically motivated fails to adequately address them.

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