YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS STUFF UP
Well, I guess you could, but we didn't. This was noted in The Corner - from the GQ interview.

"To me Vietnam is an old place, an old memory. It is old history, it’s gone, it’s past. The less I have to talk about it, frankly, the happier I am." -- John F. Kerry.

Really. And don't forget his recent pronouncement about how we may have to move troops out of Germany and South Korea, only to proclaim it a ridiculous idea when it because Bush Administration policy.

As noted in The Corner: [I]t's intellectual ADHD.