The point, for me, is that the Bush campaign has impugned Senator Kerry's
service when they cannot account for two years of Bush's service.

Walt

Walt, your left wing bitterness is blinding you. No one in the Bush campaign
is
impugning Kerry's military service. They are, however, questioning his
Congressional record.

There are people who question the validity of Kerry's war time actions, but
no
one in the Bush campaign is doing so. It would be political suicide.


Check this link:

http://theedge.bostonherald.com/book...rticleid=19169

Excerpt:

Anti-Kerry vets are Bush mercenaries

By Wayne Woodlief

Thursday, May 6, 2004

I'll take those stout-hearted Vietnam veterans defending John Kerry [related,
bio] any day over that bitter, inconsistent crew that tried to smear him, to
the benefit of President Bush [related, bio], at the National Press Club
Tuesday.

Kerry is ``totally unfit to be commander in chief,'' said former Navy Lt.
Cmdr. George Elliott, Kerry's direct commanding officer in Vietnam, along with
retired Rear Adm. Roy Hoffman, former Coast Guard Captain Adrian Lonsdale and
several other higher-ups in the chain of command over Kerry at the time.

They belittled Kerry's three Purple Hearts and said he had undermined
troops in the field when, upon being discharged from the Navy, he became a
leader of the anti-war movement and testified of ``atrocities'' by U.S. forces.


Yet Elliott had written up Kerry for a Silver Star for gallantry back in
1969. And he and Lonsdale had sung a different tune when they stood by Kerry's
side in 1996 when the senator was in a tough fight for re-election.

[end]

There really is a Republican Party dirty tricks apparatus.

The Bush campaign HAS been scummy enough to attack Senator Kerry's service when
Bush can't account for two years of his service.


Walt