""On November 28 (1990), in hearings before Senate committees, former Joint Chiefs of Staff Heads Admiral William Crowe and General David Jones urged that military action against Iraq be delayed in order to give more time for U.N. sanctions against Iraq to work. They were joined in that advice by former Secretaries of Defense Robert McNamara, Harold Brown, Frank Carlucci, Caspar Weinberger, and Eliot Richardson, along with the other eight out of nine living former Joint Chiefs of Staff Heads. A year and a half later, President Bush’s own Joint Chiefs Head, General Colin Powell admitted that he, too, favored delaying military action, although he remained silent at the time. President Bush rejected the advice. ""

from: www.nmhschool.org/tthornton/ mehistorydatabase/gulf_war.htm

When talk of Kerry's vote against the war in 1991 came up, this fact was conveniently ignored by the press/media !

The media also played up Kerry's four months of Swift Boat service (ignoring the entire service record) and didn't mention that John O'Neill's own Swift Boat service was for 5 months out of his entire service record.