Kerry, Bush Woo Veterans, National Guard
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Democrat John Kerry on Wednesday  denounced President Bush's plan to withdraw troops from Europe  and Asia as "the wrong signal to send at the wrong time" as the  United States battles terror and tries to curb North Korea's  nuclear ambitions.
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Their months of bickering and bashing nearing an end, President Bush and John Kerry sought in their second-to-last campaign day Sunday to offer hopeful visions for security and prosperity.
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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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Keith Gwinn supported President Bush in 2000, but stories he's heard about fellow veterans struggling to get benefits and medical treatment convinced him to support Democrat John Kerry.
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LAS VEGAS - President Bush told veterans Tuesday he was proud of his time in the Texas Air National Guard and sought to deflect questions about his Vietnam-era service by turning the subject to what he said were rival John Kerry's equivocations on the war in Iraq.   "What's critical is that the president of the United States speak clearly and consistently at this time of great threat in our world, and not change positions because of expediency or pressure," Bush told his applauding audience in a speech to the National Guard Association of the United States...
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INCINNATI, Aug. 18 - With repeated references to his own service in Vietnam, Senator John Kerry told fellow members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars here on Wednesday that President Bush&#39;s plan to move 70,000 troops out of Europe and Asia ...
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John Kerry and his allies are intensifying their efforts to reach out to blacks and Hispanics with waves of new advertisements meant to energize two groups that historically side with the Democratic Party.
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Democratic hopeful John Kerry joined singing worshippers at a largely black Baptist church here seeking their support, while his rival, President George W. Bush, prepared at his Texas ranch for their upcoming debate on domestic issues.
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Two weeks into the face-off between John Kerry&#39;s campaign and a group of veterans organized to ambush his candidacy, the argument has turned to the fine details.
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President Bush, his Vietnam-era military service the subject of dispute, said Tuesday he is proud of his stint in the Air National Guard and told members strained by today's wars that he is trying to make their lives easier.
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WASHINGTONJohn Kerry, leaning heavily on his Vietnam War experience, told military veterans yesterday US President George W. Bush was sending the &quot;wrong signal at the wrong time&#39;&#39; with his plan for a massive troop deployment.
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WASHINGTON - John Kerry's Vietnam War service records run to multiple medal commendations and a notation of "conspicuous gallantry" in combat. President Bush's file tracks the stateside career of a National Guard test pilot...
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Vietnam veterans supporting John Kerry for president made their case Friday in the heart of what was once enemy territory.
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Not to be outdone by rival John Kerry, President Bush will speak to the American Legion in the middle of his own nominating convention, addressing the veterans group the day before Kerry makes an appearance.
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This week, President Bush and Sen. John Kerry addressed the annual conference of the National Guard Association. Neither man talked about Bush&#39;s service in the Guard, and the officers in
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CRAWFORD, Texas  - Democrat John Kerry will  dispatch two fellow Vietnam veterans to President Bush's  secluded Texas ranch on Wednesday to press him to condemn  television advertisements accusing Kerry of lying about his  wartime service.
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US Sen. John Kerry, aging naval officer from the Vietnam War, wants voters to view him as a decorated veteran. However, he is under intense enemy fire in a modern-day war -- one for the US presidency -- and