] "I saw some war heroes ... John Kerry is not a war hero,"
] said John O'Neill, a Houston lawyer who joined the Navy's
] Coastal Division 11 two months after the future senator
] left Vietnam. "He couldn't tie the shoes of some of the
] people in Coastal Division 11."

[ The repubs are trying to pull another Max Cleland on John Kerry. I wouldn't have predicted that it could work on Max, so I don't know if it'll work here, but it's amazing to me that that the GOP would want to bring military service into this debate at all... seems like a dangerous gamble. -k]