I finished reading Unfit for Command by John O”neill last night and I see why the Kerry campaign is hell bent on trashing the Swift Boat Veterans. According to the news stories the big complaint is about Kerry’s medals and what he did, or did not do, to earn them. That is certainly part of the book but the main gripe I saw in the book, was with Kerry’s behaviour when he returned from Vietnam.

If there really are problems with this book then Kerry should confront them. He has certainly mis-used the veteran’s group picture and, if we are simply counting numbers, there are more SwiftVets against Kerry than for him. And we must remember, Kerry is the one who said “bring it on“. Seems to me the SwiftVets have “brought it on” and Kerry is running as fast as he can–away.

Getting Kerry to own up to anything is an impossible task. Remember a few months ago when he said more foreign goverment officials supported him than supported Bush? Well he never seemed to come up with a list. I even emailed his campaign just to mess with them a little and I got no response. Well, that is not exactly true, I did get added to his mailing list (from which I promptly removed myself). Just something un-nerving about getting email from Kerry that begins “Dear Friend:”.