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Presidential Candidate's Military Records
Which Candidate Served Honorably and With Valor?

 


 

Part I. The Military Records of Senator Kerry and Pres. Bush

Part II. Republican Sponsored Swift Boat Vets Exposed

 

See the Military Record of Senator John Kerry

See the Military Record of George W. Bush

 


 

Part I. The Military Records of Senator Kerry and Pres. Bush

 

Mr. Bush's Glass House
By Nicolas D. Kristof
President Bush's paramount problem
with his National Guard years is not
that he took shortcuts in 1972. The
problem is that he still refuses to come
clean about it.

 

Missing in Action
By Nicholas D. Kristof. President Bush
claims that in the fall of 1972, he fulfilled
his Air National Guard duties at a base in
Alabama. But Bob Mintz was there - and
he is sure Mr. Bush wasn't.

 

Read the Stinging Analysis of
George W. Bush's
avoidance of
service by Army Colonel (Retired) Gerald A.
Lechliter
.

 

CBS Defends Its Report on
Bush Military Record
the debate could
help shape the presidential campaign.

 

 

Documents Suggest Special
Treatment for Bush in Guard
N.Y.
Times Reports: President Bush's Vietnam-era
service in the National Guard came under
renewed scrutiny on Wednesday as newfound
documents emerged from his squadron commander's
file that suggested favorable treatment

 

 

Old Memos Bring New Problems
for Bush
President Bush’s Vietnam-era
military service returned to the forefront of the
race for the White House on Thursday after a
host of media outlets reported details about
the president's suspension from flying in the
Texas Air National Guard.

 

 

 

 


 

 

Part II. Republican Sponsored Swift Boat Vets Exposed

 

 

Read the Actual Transcript
of the Swift Boat Vets Fraudulent
Ad:
"I served with John Kerry."

 

 

See the President's Connections to
the Swift Boat Vets Attacks
PDF File

 

Kerry TV Ad Pins Veterans' Attack
Firmly on Bush
by Adam Nagourney
and Jim Rutenberg of the N.Y. Times. Bob
Dole uncharacteristically began supporting
the Swift Boat Vet's accusations while Bush
continued to refuse to to
disavow the
campaign against Kerry.

 

Anti-Kerry Vets Not There that Day
By William B. Rood. And eye-witness account:
"There were three swift boats on the river that day
in Vietnam more than 35 years ago—three officers
and 15 crew members. Only two of those officers
remain to talk about what happened on February 28, 1969.

 

A Swift Boat Vet's Military Record
Newly obtained military records of one of Sen.
John F. Kerry's most vocal critics, who has
accused the Democratic presidential candidate
of lying about his wartime record to win medals,
contradict his own version of events.

 

Senator Kerry Fights Back: Swift
Boat Group a Front for Bush.
Faced
with unrelenting attacks on his military record,
Sen. John F. Kerry on Thursday said a
Republican-funded group of veterans is lying
about his service in Vietnam and operating as a
front organization for President Bush.

 

Swift Boat Vet's Ads Are Believed by
Voters:
Kerry's decision to take on the group
directly was a measure of how the group that calls
itself Swift Boat Veterans for Truth has catapulted
itself to the forefront of the presidential campaign.

 

A New York Times Editorial: It may seem
outlandish to launch a campaign broadside by
television ad and book flackery devoted to
discrediting the respectable Vietnam War record
of Senator John Kerry, who has five combat medals.
But that is exactly what a Republican-financed
group of partisans is doing

 

 

 

 

 


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