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p>Regarding swift boats: I was told once that they are Boston Whalers. Is that true? If so, I was taught to pilot one (or at least keep it from running into a sandbar) in an afternoon. Of course, this was the gulf waters off Texas, not the swamps of Cambodia. But it was a kind of combat, as all on board (except me) were full of beer and rowdy fishing lies. I kept my wits about me and never thought I had ventured into the Caribbean. That was my sole experience, but it probably equals John Kerry's. br> -- Diane Smith br> South San Francisco, California /p>

What is it with the Democratic Party? Why are so many of its leaders wacky?

As Emmett Tyrrell shows, John Kerry has so incorporated his delusions of grander into his thinking that the French-looking senator is actively trying to re-shape reality and rewrite history. And this obsession that Jean-Francois and his fellow Democrats have with the Swifties only makes me happier that I contributed to the Swift Boat Veterans during the campaign.

And who hasn't seen displays of serious mental unbalance by Al Gore and screaming Howard Dean? And Hillary, one look at her with those eyes bugging out, and for the sake of Christian charity, you pray that the white coated men with nets come and quietly take her to a padded cell before she harms herself or others.

p>This concentration of loons and loonettes must a tremendous type of political gravitation force, attracting the likes of John McCain to become a Democrat. How much longer, I wonder, before the senator from Arizona gives in and answers the siren call to join the Party of the Unhinged (POU)? (My prediction? It will happen when McCain is once again denied the GOP presidential nomination.) br> -- Peter Skurkiss br> Stow, Ohio /p>

I too read the Times article about Kerry once again attempting to "set the record straight" regarding his "Holiday in Cambodia" and other 'heroic' Vietnam exploits. This tells us a few things: The left's continual obsession with Vietnam. You can't watch PBS for a week and not see a Vietnam retrospective. Another is the left's obsession with inconvenient facts: That whatever Kerry or a liberal says, has to be true, because he/they feel it to be true. "Sounds good…go with it."

Third: Kerry's own admission at the "congressional hearings" in which by projection, he attempted to indict other Veterans for what his own military record in Vietnam revealed: the cheap shots that killed the naked teenager behind the hut, shooting up the fisherman's family while out on the skimmer, his filming of his exploits to record what that should have been, rather than what reality was. Finally, his refusal to authorize the release his complete medical file that describes his "war" wounds that led to his receipt of the much disputed and ever paraded Purple Heart medals.

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