London Telegraph has the Fake Medal story

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2004%2F08%2F29%2Fwbush129.xml&sSheet=%2Fnews%2F2004%2F08%2F29%2Fixworld.html

After weeks of denigration of the Democratic challenger's Vietnam war record, Mr Kerry's backers have responded with allegations against the President - including the claim that he was once photographed in uniform wearing a medal ribbon he had not earned.

As polls showed that Mr Bush had edged ahead of Mr Kerry for the first time, a pro-Kerry organisation labelled the President an "impostor" over the photograph, taken in 1970 and discovered in his father's Presidential Library in Houston, Texas.

The ribbon is an Air Force Outstanding Unit Award - which was not awarded to the 111th Fighter Intercept Squadron in which Mr Bush served until 1975, five years after the photograph was taken, according to the group US War Report.

"Why is this fraud important? Because it betrays the Honour Code that every officer learns and carries throughout his or her career," said Walt Starr who investigated the medals for the group. Separately a new book, Deserter, by Ian Williams, a British-born author, challenges the President with details of how he used his father's influence to join the Texas Air National Guard as a trainee pilot, thereby avoiding service in Vietnam, and then allegedly disappeared from his base without fulfilling his duty.

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1. Hey, are we a "pro-Kerry organization?"

WALT did this...the rest of us just cheered.

We might be called a pro-Kerry disorganization, I guess. ;-)

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2. And another DUer strikes again. Congratulations again Mr. Starr.

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3. Many thanks to the British Press

someone has to keep an eye on our government.