Way to Miss the Point Entirely

So, I was listening to David Brudnoy on the radio last night. He's more of a conservative leaning Libertarian, but I usually find his show to be more intelligent and thought provoking that the usual cast of lunkheads on the AM dial. The discussion, of course, was about Kerry's military service and was he lying about everything and did he bring all these negative attacks on himself and did he really even volunteer in the first place. Because now, after the original charges about his medals were discredited, and the statements John O'Neill made about Cambodia have now been shown to contradict previous claims he made about his own service, the new story is that John Kerry didn't actually volunteer for Viet Nam service, he tried to get a student deferment first, and then signed up for the Naval Reserve.
So let me get this straight: A guy tries to do what thousands of other guys tried to do (get a deferment so they don't have to go to Viet Nam), gets turned down, signs up for military service in the hopes that he doesn't have to go over there, goes over there, and serves not only honorably, but heroically (according to the official history and eyewitness accounts), and people are giving him shit for that now? Unbelievable. And then Brudnoy tried to equate Kerry's attempt at a deferment with Dick Cheney's. The problem with that is, Kerry was vocal in his opposition to the war, but went anyway and served honorably. Cheney was vocal in his support of it, but due to his "other priorities," got out of actually putting his ass where his mouth was and going over there to serve. And not only that, his willingness to send other people's kids into danger zones when his own instinct was to cover his ass in the 60's is despicable. I don't fault someone for trying to get out of a situation like that. I probably would have. But when your actions and your words directly contradict each other, then I say let the ridiculing commence.