...for not releasing them in August 2004. The Boston Globe:

WASHINGTON -- Senator John F. Kerry, ending at least two years of refusal, has waived privacy restrictions and authorized the release of his full military and medical records.

The records, which the Navy Personnel Command provided to the Globe, are mostly a duplication of what Kerry released during his 2004 campaign for president, including numerous commendations from commanding officers who later criticized Kerry's Vietnam service.

One of the comments on Kevin Drum's post reads simply, "I believe Mr. Kerry just began his presidential campaign for 2008." What an odd way to begin a presidential campaign, demonstrating how badly you screwed yourself on the last one. If there really is nothing much in Kerry's records, than releasing them now, instead of last August, calls his judgment—hell, sanity—into question.

Even if he'd released his record during the campaign, he'd still have lost by a margin.

The republican campaign had already done its damage, and they would simply have played on the lack of any report on his shrapnel wound.

In too many people's minds, they'd already assosiated Kerry as a weak flipflopping coward.

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