I hate to say that Rush Limbaugh could even half right, but he's been saying that the Dems would make this election about the Vietnam war.
If this Village Voice piece has any traction it's the Repubs who are going to make it all about the war, and Kerry will be doomed:
Senator John Kerry, a decorated battle veteran, was courageous as a navy lieutenant in the Vietnam War. But he was not so courageous more than two decades later, when he covered up voluminous evidence that a significant number of live American prisoners--perhaps hundreds--were never acknowledged or returned after the war-ending treaty was signed in January 1973.
The Massachusetts senator, now seeking the presidency, carried out this subterfuge a little over a decade ago-- shredding documents, suppressing testimony, and sanitizing the committee's final report--when he was chairman of the Senate Select Committee on P.O.W./ M.I.A. Affairs.
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0408/schanberg.php