Kerry Demands Bush Prove Guard Service

[AZCat]

link: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040427/ap_on_el_pr/kerry_medals&e=2&ncid=703

Kerry Demands Bush Prove Guard Service

By NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press Writer

WHEELING, W.Va. - John Kerry (news - web sites ), a decorated Navy veteran criticized by Republicans for his anti-war activities during the Vietnam era, lashed out at President Bush (news - web sites) on Monday for failing to prove whether he fulfilled his commitment to the National Guard during the same period.

Conservative critics have questioned whether Kerry deserved his three Purple Hearts for battle wounds, an issue the Democratic presidential candidate sought to put to rest last week by releasing his military records. On Sunday, a top Bush adviser criticized Kerry for leading anti-war protests after he returned from the battlefield.

"If George Bush wants to ask me questions about that through his surrogates, he owes America an explanation about whether or not he showed up for duty in the National Guard. Prove it. That's what we ought to have," Kerry told NBC News in an interview. "I'm not going to stand around and let them play games."
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What a headline! Please rate this story a 5!

On Edit: I know this story has been here before, but please- rate this one at Yahoo!

[Fridays Child]

1. C'mon! Give it a 5!

:kick:

[kagitu]

2. medals

http://www.geocities.com/estradaroger/johnkerry.html

[bobbieinok]

3. extreme anti-Kerry site - what is YOUR opinion of this issue + site?

[SidDithers]

6. buh bye... nt

Sid

[soleft]

9. I can't open this site

Can someone give me some more information about it.

[AZCat]

10. Okay, but stomach yourself...

link (for reference): http://www.geocities.com/estradaroger/johnkerry.html

Title: John Kerry the Waffle King

From the Page:

The Official John Kerry Waffle House Page

To vote for John Kerry in November is to vote for The Void. It is to move a nation -- and much of the free world -- into an awesome, scary vacuum.

The reason is because no one, including John Kerry, knows truthfully who Kerry is. And the word "truthfully" is the key word. No one. Kerry is unknowable in that he has a base that shifts. He is Political Opportunist to the maximum -- one of the most dangerous to this new century.

Kerry is now called The waffler. He?s called that because he is. Who then in one?s right mind would vote for a waffler? Only the fools of the nation would cast a ballot for a person who is so unpredictable that not even John Kerry knows where he's going to land next week. His voting record in the Congress is right there before the eyes of the country. It's public record. It?s unnerving to go over his voting history.more.....
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I hope this is enough...

On Edit: Cleared up some of the characters that didn't copy

[SpiralHawk]

4. Come on, Mr. Smirk-in-Chief

put up or shut up (and that goes for your chickenhawk cronies, too)

[fryguy]

5. this is what confuses me....

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"That criticism silenced for the moment, Bush adviser Karen Hughes turned to what Kerry did after returning from Vietnam. Hughes said Sunday she was offended by Kerry's anti-war activities in 1971 and accused him of not throwing back his medals when he and other veterans protested in Washington."

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She's offended that Kerry exercised his freedom of speech by speaking out against a war THAT HE FOUGHT IN? And she's offended that he DIDN'T throw his medals away? Would she be happy if he HAD thrown them back? This strikes me as the repukes throwing as much mud (crap) as they can and hoping that something sticks....

[maddezmom]

7. rated it a 5...at 3.19 now n/t

[wabeewoman]

8. There are sure some idiots

on that Yahoo site. Somebody says bush dodged the draft and the reply is Clinton did it too. Uhhh, don't they remember that Clinton is no longer President no matter how we wish it were so? And what is the deal with Teresa Heinz Kerry's tax return? Are they really so desperate that these are the only issues they can come up with? Sad....

[Moderator]

11. This was reported yesterday, not Late Breaking News

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=511177