Kerry In Combat: Setting The Record Straight
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John Kerry offers his service in Vietnam as proof that he can keep America safe. But in two TV ads and a best-selling book, an anti-Kerry group has accused the Senator of dishonesty and cowardice during the war.
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A bitter US election fight over TV ads that claim Democrat John Kerry lied about his Vietnam valour boiled over yesterday with loyal veterans demanding US President George W. Bush stop
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John Kerry can be proud of his record as a decorated Vietnam War veteran, US President George W. Bush said, as controversy continued to swirl over attacks against the Democratic presidential candidate's military record by a pro-Bush veterans' group.
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WASHINGTON - Attacks on John Kerry's war record may be beginning to have an impact, polls suggest, amid raised voices and new TV ads on a subject at least temporarily dominating debate in the close presidential race.    Democrats are laboring to deflect the questioning of Kerry's record with fresh ads touting his fitness for national command, even as the White House mocks the Massachusetts senator as "losing his cool" over claims he lied to win military medals in Vietnam...
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BOSTON - John Kerry fought back Thursday against campaign allegations that he exaggerated his combat record in Vietnam, accusing President Bush of using a Republican front group "to do his dirty work" and challenging Bush to debate their wartime service records.   "Well, if he wants to have a debate about our service in Vietnam, here is my answer: Bring it on," said the Democratic presidential candidate, reviving an old war and campaign slogan amid strong urging from party leaders for him to respond to two-week-old GOP assertions...
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A veteran who disputed Democratic  presidential candidate John Kerry's Vietnam war record  acknowledged on Sunday he had no proof to back his charge that  Kerry fabricated the reports of enemy fire that won him two  medals.
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Comparing the Administration's war rationale to the facts on the ground
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The presidential campaign is doing the time warp. Again. Thirty-three years after a decorated Lt. John Kerry both galvanized and outraged veterans and the public with his condemnations
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A quick look at where Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry stands on key issues:
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As the uproar over John Kerry&#39;s record during the Vietnam War illustrates, that polarizing conflict is still being fought. It probably will remain a flash point at least for the duration of the Vietnam-era generation.
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WASHINGTON - John Kerry locked horns with George W. Bush in a tense televised debate tonight, accusing him of making a &quot;colossal error of judgment&quot; by invading Iraq while the president responded that his opponent was unfit to lead.
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A commander of a Navy boat alongside John Kerry in Vietnam broke a 35-year silence and defended the Democratic presidential nominee&#39;s war record against attacks by other veterans.
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The battle of the swift boat captains has become such a defining issue of the 2004 presidential campaign that history books are almost certain to give treatment to it in describing this year&#39;s election.
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Democrat John Kerry on Thursday lashed out at "the lie that's been put out there" about his Vietnam War service as Republicans and Democrats fiercely debated his military record, sensing a political advantage in keeping the issue alive.
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Senator John Kerry declared victory in the US presidential election, staking his claim on a historical quirk linking past White House races and the Washington Redskins football team.
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A veteran who served with John Kerry in Vietnam says the Democrat "risked his life to save mine" in a television ad that Kerry's presidential campaign rolled out Thursday to counter a spot that claims Kerry lied about his war record.
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The Navy task force overseeing John Kerry's swift boat squadron in Vietnam reported that his group of boats came under enemy fire during a March 13, 1969, incident that three decades later is being challenged by the Democratic presidential nominee's critics.