John Moore –

Nice partisan document published in a campaign year. Kerry has plenty of “comrades in arms” who take a different position. There will be many Viet Nam veterans who support him, and many who don’t.

My generation will obviously go to our graves before the wounds and divisions of that war finally heal.

But, let’s be honest here, you don’t object to Kerry’s actions in or after the war in themselves — if the same history belonged to a Republican, you would be defending them passionately. Just as you now passionately defend Bush’s record of service in the Guard.

There’s nothing less attactive than moral outrage that always and only follows a partisan path.

Kerry may not be the man you want for President. But that should’t make him someone whose service and courage can be demeaned without dishonor, or whose history should be casually and self-interestedly distorted and smeared.

These partisans are fighting on very low ground here.