Get ON With it, America

Much bandwidth and ink has been expended on the Swift Boat flaps but all points have probably been made and it's still probably not an influential, even though it has been a revealing issue. We need campaign attention to current matters and to lay the Vietnam war to rest. We have wars of our own; idealogical wars and bloody mortal battlefields of the 21st Century.

Arianna Huffington, as usual, has a concise final word on the subject, except unfortunately, it's not likely to be final.

The 2004 election is nothing less than a referendum on the soul of our country - a political event with unprecedented significance for our lives and the lives of our children. The Kerry campaign cannot allow it to devolve into a debate over whether John Kerry bled enough to warrant a Purple Heart.

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