Swift Vets....

[PornoDoggy]

I can get awfully cranky after 6 hours on the road and two days of my DSL working like a 28K modem.

Atrocities are committed in every war - no doubt about that. Seldom, however, does the chain of command break down in the way that the Army's did in Vietnam. Unfortunately, like I said above, serious discussion of that sort of topic was drowned out in the banshee-sreamin'-din from the 70s equivelent of Michael Moore and Fox News fans. I'd be lying if I said I understood it in those precise terms at the time - but in my own defense, in 72 when Kerry testified I was 19.

There were some genuine extremists in the Vietnam Vets Against The War - Kerry was not one of them, no matter how hard the Republican spin machine is trying to paint him as one today. Comparing Kerry to Fonda is a lot like comparing your uncle or my cousin to William Calley. The use of the comrades term is clever - I'll give you that - but it's dead wrong. There were some wackos in the VVAW, but the majority of them, including the ones I knew personally, were no more "comrades" in THAT sense than everyone who supported the war was a pseudofacist tool of the capitalist war machine.

I was one of millions of Americans who was active in the antiwar movement. Apparently I attracked a little bit of attention even though I was in high school, because my Navy security clearance read "interim" for a lot longer than was normal at the time. (My best friend from high school still contends that I owe him for several ounces of Hawaian "oregeno" that got flushed when the revenuers showed up at college to interview him about me).