No one who was paying attention should have been surprised by Senator Kerry's current public-relations problems. Emailer Mike Daily points out one of the indicators from this past spring about the "Boston Strangler" (and if true, what does that choice of code name tell us about Senator Kerry?):

Working with call sign “Boston Strangler” became problematical. “I had a lot of trouble getting him to follow orders,” recalls Wright. “He had a different view of leadership and operations. Those of us with direct experience working with Kerry found him difficult and oriented towards his personal, rather than unit goals and objectives. I believed that overall responsibility rested squarely on the shoulders of the OIC or OTC in a free-fire zone. You had to be right (before opening fire). Kerry seemed to believe there were no rules in a free-fire zone and you were supposed to kill anyone. I didn’t see it that way.”

In Wright’s view, it was important that the enemy understood that Swift boats were a competent, effective force that could dominate his location. To do that, you also had to control the people and their actions; to have them accept Swift boat crews and their authority. You couldn’t achieve that by indiscriminate use of weapons in free fire zones.

It got to a point where Wright told his divisional commander he no longer wanted Kerry in his boat group, so he was re-assigned to another one. “I had an idea of his actions but didn’t have to be responsible for him.” Then Wright and like-minded boat officers took matters into their own hands. “When he got his third Purple Heart, three of us told him to leave. We knew how the system worked and we didn’t want him in Coastal Division 11. Kerry didn’t manipulate the system, we did.”

"...personal, rather than unit goals and objectives." Combine that with his film crew, complete with retakes, and it continues to paint a pretty damning picture to me.

And given the apparently trivial nature of his wounds, for which many serving would have refused Purple Hearts (and which many did, for much worse), it was a joint manipulation. One suspects that Kerry was happy to get out with his medals, of whatever provenance, and footage, and his commanders were happy to see his rice-pelleted backside for the last time.

It is repeatedly said that John Kerry CHOSE to go to Vietnam. His choice needs reflection.

Michael Kranish wrote a seven-part biographical series in the Boston Globe in June, 2003. It claims that John Kerry mentioned, on multiple occasions, that he aspired to running for president someday; this occurred prior to his graduation from Yale. In addition, he had personally met John Fitzgerald Kennedy at least twice while JFK was President. Kerry was quite familiar with the PT-109 story.

It's reported that Kerry was among an especially close group of four Skull & Bones members who went to Vietnam.

One can speculate that John Kerry saw the need to have a war record as part of a strong future in politics, and medals are special elements of such a war record. Probably one reason that John Forbes Kerry CHOSE to go to Vietnam was to develop this significant resumé. Kerry CHOSE to serve his country, and he CHOSE to serve his career aspirations. Kerry probably had deeply held convictions about becoming President. One can correspondingly speculate that his cautious Senatorial career may have been as deliberately delevoped as was his combat career.

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