someone please explain to me how the media and the pundits and everyone is up in arms over kerry's, not bush's, record during vietnam? i mean, i really don't understand how a war hero (who volunteered for service, saw hostile fire, saved a fellow veteran's life, and still carries shrapnel in his leg) is pummeled constantly over details of which are logged and described in detail in the war records, all of which is undisputed by the military; while a war deserter who didn't even serve is given a free pass with no hard questions asked, even though no one seems to know where he was during the time he was supposed to be serving. it's really rather orwellian