New Book: Kerry ‘Unfit for Command’

SBV's say they would not have brought this up if Kerry was not running for President

The Naval record is what those in power wanted it to say.

However, the fact that these Republican and Democratic SBVs are going to extra effort to make their point.

You are forming your own opinion of what a leader should do in that situation. Other leaders disagree with your interpretation.

Bush needed more information, just as any commander on a battlefield would need before making an unplanned decision.

What is clear is that his leadership on fighting terrorism is what a lot of us are looking for.

The fact is, there is nothing the President could have done at that time more than what he did.

Voting is a very minor decision compared to actually making things happen.

Since you brought it up, voting is not one of Kerry strengths. It seems he was absent quite often.

But what I and others would like to see released, are the government records concerning the formulation of energy policy

crashfrog writes:We don't know who wrote the military records, but those reports would have been written by people who were there, possibly by some of the men who later became Swift Boaters.\

leadership that lies in order to garner support

...no connection to Al Qaida or Osama bin Laden?

...reduction in our civil rights...

The Navy is challenging the authenticity of Sen. John Kerry's Vietnam War medals.

Substantiate Claim (of Navy investigation)

The leaders of the United States and Britain failed to exercise "critical judgment" in going to war against Iraq a year ago despite the lack of hard evidence that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, says Hans Blix, the former chief United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq."If you sentence someone to death or you sentence someone to war, you'd better have some evidence," Blix tells NPR's Bob Edwards. "And we didn't feel there was evidence..."Blix, whose new book is called Disarming Iraq, says he became doubtful about the existence of Iraqi WMD in January 2003. He says U.N. inspectors visited locations in Iraq that intelligence had indicated "as places where there would be weapons. And in none of these cases did we find any weapons."

...no connection to Al Qaida or Osama bin Laden?

...reduction in our civil rights...

Some conservative groups are finding common ground with organizations such as the American Civil Liberties Union and the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, expressing concerns about the effect that the USA Patriot Act and a possible follow-up law, the Domestic Security Enhancement Act, could have on civil liberties.
Liberal critics have directed much of their worry at what they saw as an attack on immigrants' rights in the Patriot Act, the massive measure that was passed as the country was reeling from the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.More than 60 towns, cities and counties around the country have passed resolutions criticizing the act, some going so far as to instruct municipal employees including police not to assist federal agents in investigations that they believe violate the Constitution.Now, right-leaning groups such as the American Conservative Union, the Eagle Forum and Gun Owners of America say they are concerned that American citizens could also be victimized by what they say are unconstitutional law enforcement powers allowed by the Patriot and the potential enhancement act.The heart of the issue, according to conservatives, liberals and constitutional scholars, is the effect that USA Patriot has already had on issues of probable cause and due process, and that both of those concepts would be further eroded if the so-called Patriot II were adopted as it appears in the draft form.According to what is in the draft, if adopted it would allow the Justice Department to wiretap a person for 15 days without a warrant; federal agents could secretly arrest people and provide no information to their family, the media or their attorney until charges are brought, no matter how long that took; and it would allow the government to strip Americans of their citizenship for even unknowingly helping a group that is connected to an organization deemed to be terrrorist.It would also make it a crime for people subpoenaed in connection with an investigation being carried out under the Patriot Act to alert Congress to any possible abuses committed by federal agents.There is also no "sunset provision," which constitutional scholars say removes the element of congressional oversight and means lawmakers would have no way of compelling the Justice Department to prove that the powers provided in the act have not been abused.