This is absurd:

Why is CNN reporting this? On first glace it's about somebody who served with Kerry, but that's not so.

Title: Fellow vet blasts Kerry's antiwar comments

Excerpts: (emphasis added)

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A man who served in the same Navy unit as Sen. John Kerry denounced on Tuesday charges the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee made as an antiwar protester that he and other U.S. troops committed atrocities in Vietnam.

"I saw some war heroes ... John Kerry is not a war hero," said John O'Neill, a Houston lawyer who joined the Navy's Coastal Division 11 two months after the future senator left Vietnam. "He couldn't tie the shoes of some of the people in Coastal Division 11."

[...]

But O'Neill said Tuesday that he and the others who served with Kerry -- who "would much rather have nothing to do with this" -- feel they have "no choice" but to come forward, which he said would dispel the notion that Vietnam veterans as a group are supportive of Kerry's candidacy.

"We were there, we know the truth, and we know that this guy's unfit to be commander-in-chief," said O'Neill, who took over command of Kerry's boat after he left.

Can CNN now find people who served in Bush's Texas Air National Guard after Bush left it. People who will blast Bush as being "unfit to be commander-in-chief"?

posted by Quiddity at 4/20/2004 09:04:00 PM