Kerrey's only coming forward now in order to avoid embarrassment when he runs for president again in 2004. Bob Kerrey showed a lot of courage back then. And he shows even more courage today. We shouldn't take his medal away. We should give him another one.
Nobody defends killing civilians, but consider the circumstances.
This was a war. Of course, they fired back. They didn't crawl through the darkness first to see who was firing, or whether there was anyone else in the line of fire. That would have been suicidal. They had no choice but to return fire without knowing who might unintentionally be killed, just as a pilot has no idea who might be killed when he drops a bomb from 10,000 feet up.