Vietnam Debate Muddles 2004 Election
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Description: Senior news analyst NPR&#39;s Daniel Schorr says that this presidential campaign is not dominated by important issues of the day, but instead has degenerated into a gossipy back-and-forth debate about the Vietnam War.
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US Vice President Dick Cheney and Democratic rival John Edwards clashed on Iraq, terrorism and the economy in their only debate, seeking any advantage just 28 days before the November 2 election.
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Two groups of Vietnam veterans opposed to Sen. John Kerry once again have joined forces to run television ads against the Democratic presidential candidate.
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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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A war of words has erupted over US presidential candidate John Kerry&#39;s record in the Vietnam War. Democrat Kerry has unveiled a new advert calling on President Bush to abandon &quot;smears&quot; against his war record.
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Washington -- The debate over US Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry&#39;s record in the Vietnam War continued yesterday after the resignation of a veteran working to help re-elect George W. Bush.
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Four of the senators who will vote next week on putting more troops in Iraq bear the scars of another war in another time, in a place called Vietnam. Three will vote against sending more troops. One will vote the other way.
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The second presidential debate between President Bush and Sen. John Kerry was framed by lingering questions on Iraq and the economy.
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Washington - Just days before the Republican National Convention, the race between President Bush and Democratic challenger John Kerry remains a toss-up amid signs that a controversy over Kerry&#39;s Vietnam service has hurt the Democrat, but not
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As Congress prepares to debate Iraq, a disagreement between two leading Democrats resurrects some of the toughest questions facing the nation.
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From the beginning, John F. Kerry has formed his presidential campaign around his service in the Vietnam War. But it is another war, World War II, that shaped his belief
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The controversy over the Vietnam war record of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry has trained a fresh light on one of that conflict's lesser-known episodes &#151; the operations of America's "Brown Water Navy" in rivers, canals and mangrove swamps of the Mekong Delta.
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Usually just a campaign sideshow, this year's vice presidential debate has taken on new life as a high-stakes showdown in a tightening presidential race. Dick Cheney's mission is to slow John Kerry's sudden momentum, while John Edwards' assignment is to feed doubts about President Bush's handling of Iraq and the economy.
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US President George W. Bush and Democratic White House hopeful John Kerry sparred on the economy, the Iraq war and the humanitarian crisis in Darfur, and continued their war of words over Bush's national guard stint to avoid the Vietnam War.
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US President George W. Bush faced fresh questions about his Vietnam War-era service as he and his Democratic rival, Senator John Kerry, campaigned in key states ahead of the November 2 election.
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BOSTON - In the wake of criticisms about his actions in Vietnam, John Kerry challenged US President George W. Bush to debate their wartime service records.
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President Bush and his rival, Senator John Kerry, may have clashed over how to stop North Korea&#39;s nuclear plans but their policies are not as far apart as their first debate suggested, analysts said on Friday.