Here's a good account (from Kerry's words and testimony) of his time there:
http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn07292004.html
He was the kind of guy my buds would write back about.
They always wanted to frag these assholes.
Maybe I can't take this VN stuff dispassionately enough. But maybe that simply adds to the accuracy. If we had paid off his two hundred-plus in-country detractors to come out against him, somebody would have found out by now. Hasn't happened. They just don't, and didn't, like the fucker.
Maybe they're all just partisan hacks. Even the committed Dems among them.