Personnaly ive viewed the incident as one little piece of the overall ugly picture that is the elections. This is just one bit from one side, im sure theres more ugliness to follow.
Now, im not defending Kerry, if one was to ask me, id say he just needs to go away and disppear. he had his 15 mins of fame and needs to get the F' off the soapbox and just go away. But.... there is a degree of truth to what he said. It's an ugly truth, but the reality is, the military has lowered its standards to obtain more warm bodies to meet recruiting quota's.
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