Kerry Responds to Bush Attacks: text and audio file.

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Text http://www.kerry.senate.gov/v3/cfm/record.cfm?id=248761

Below are Senator Kerry’s remarks, as prepared:

“Mr. President, Veterans Day is sacred - or it is supposed to be. Veterans Day is a day to honor veterans, not to play attack politics. The President, who is Commander in Chief, should know and respect this.

“Veterans Day originally marked the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, when the guns of World War I, the war to end all wars, finally fell silent. Instead of honoring that moment, instead of laying a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier at Arlington National Cemetery, instead of laying out a clear plan for success in Iraq, the President laid into his critics with an 11th hour rhetorical assault that dishonored America’s veterans and those serving today, even as he continued to distort the truth about his war of choice.
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MP3 file http://demradio.senate.gov/actualities/kerry/kerry051115_floor.mp3