Apparently Razorsharp, you're a member of the "Two wrongs do too make a right!" brigade.
And you can't even get your facts - facts documented in writing - right. On February 10, 1968, Kerry requested - in writing - to be sent to Viet Nam. He didn't have to. A lot of people - including George Bush - did whatever they could to avoid that after joining the service instead of waiting to be drafted.
Fundingfather - and yet the men who actually did serve with Kerry - the men who were actually with him on his small boat, the Special Services officer who was on Kerry's boat and whose life he saved - they all but one disagreed vehemently with the guys who served "with" Kerry by being on other boats in the same fleet. I agree that it was a bad decision to run on a military experience platform. But that doesn't excuse the Swifties lying about him. I understand that that sort of "anything goes, ends justify the means" politics of personal destruction is de rigeur among the right wing zealots - but that doesn't excuse anyone who participates in it.