[RACooper]

Okay a couple of points...

One, you can be an intellectual without being a stellar scholar (it helps), nor does being a stellar scholar make you an intellectual... there are many people currently or historically that I consider intellectuals, but that weren't all that scholarlly (or didn't have the time to bury themselves in their schoolwork).

Two, this one is for honeychile - Kerry said we, as in American soldiers, when testifying before congress; he didn't say all of the soldiers, or all of us (in the all Americans sense) - it's a fine ditinction, but one that I though members of GLOs could grasp... and one that doesn't make him a liar by any stretch of the imagination. Finally I gotta ask - what would give Kerry the right to speak about Vietnam and the record there?