THINGS ARE REALLY HEATING UP: “Former Republican Sen. Bob Dole suggested Sunday that John Kerry apologize for past testimony before Congress about alleged atrocities during the Vietnam War and joined critics of the Democratic presidential candidate who say he received an early exit from combat for ‘superficial wounds.’ Dole also called on Kerry to release all the records of his service in Vietnam.”

That would be the easiest way to resolve these things. I wonder if Pat Oliphant will produce a cartoon about Bob Dole now.

UPDATE: Ann Althouse notes that Kerry should have seen this coming:

What is to stop this story from being the central story of the Presidential campaign? . . . It’s distressing that the candidate did not take this foreseeable problem seriously. Dole’s remarks today (on “Late Edition”) included the fact that he warned Kerry that he was going “too far” with his use of Vietnam. How could the Kerry people have blinded themselves to the risks they were taking?

Groupthink.