Responses to my criticisms of Kerry’s view of his

fellow veterans have the makings of a Vietnam Veterans Against Kerry,

without the excesses of the current website bearing that name. (The

Kerry chronicle is helpful, the conclusions about Kerry aren’t). To

some of my other correspondents: It’s absurd to see a parallel between

President Bush being misled by US intelligence on Iraq’s WMD and Kerry

being duped by phony veterans’ phony firsthand accounts. For starters,

I see a major difference between believing the worst about a murderous

tyrant’s intentions and believing the worst about the typical American

G.I. For those whose distaste for President Bush has them stubbornly

ignoring my point: Kerry deserves credit for serving in Vietnam, and he

had every right to later oppose US policy, which he could have done

without slandering thousands of other veterans who honorably served.