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I usually admire Dobbs' reporting. But here he reminds me of the UN during the Bosnian war twittering that each side is equally guilty. All sides in the Swift Boats nonsense are not 'equally guilty.' The facts overwhelmingly back up the Kerry side, as this first-hand account by William Rood of the Chicago Tribune adds to the overwhelming evidence of.
How can John McCain stand to be associated with this gang of thieves, who perpetrated the same atrocities against the truth during the 2000 Republican presidential primary? He should be ashamed to have anything to do with them.
UPDATE: Kevin Drum asks an interesting question at the end of this post:
Why does Dobbs hide this simple fact [that every single piece of available evidence backs up Kerry and Rassmann's claim that they were under fire] in a huge mass of detail? Hard to say.
But talking this over with a friend, I think Dobbs may be using this article [hinting as it does that while all the documentary evidence out there backs up the Kerry portrayal and discredits the SwiftVets, the Kerry camp has not been as forthcoming as Dobbs would like], to try to pressure the Kerry camp, and in particular historian Douglas Brinkley, to make the Kerry writings and journals Brinkley had exclusive access to for his book, Tour of Duty, available to the Washington Post. One wonders if not Kerry, but Brinkley, has something he'd rather not share? But it would certainly be better to be forthcoming if it was a mistake on his part?
More: Go watch this ad. And check out Dowd: "It makes sense for W. to use surrogates to do his fighting, just as he did when he slid out of Vietnam and just as he did when he sent our troops to fight his administration's misbegotten vanity war in Iraq."
SUNDAY UPDATE: Check out this letter to the editor from the Telluride (Co.) Gateway newspaper, by Jim Russell, who claims to have served as a US Navy Psychological Operations Officer on the No. 43 boat during the March 1969 Swift Boat river excursions. [Thx to reader JW].