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Dole rips Kerry over war medals
via Wash Times - EFLBy Audrey Hudson - August 23, 2004 [REAL] World War II hero Bob Dole yesterday questioned whether presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry deserved the Purple Hearts he was awarded during the Vietnam War and said the issue could lead to the Democrat's defeat. Mr. Dole's comments came in response to the book "Unfit for Command" by John E. O'Neill and Jerome R. Corsi and to television ads criticizing Mr. Kerry's behavior during and after the war by members of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. Mr. Dole, a former Republican presidential nominee and Kansas senator, said he has a "quarrel" with Mr. Kerry for receiving three Purple Hearts while serving only four months in battle. "I said John Kerry's a hero. But what I will always quarrel about are the Purple Hearts. I mean, the first one, whether he ought to have a Purple Heart — he got two in one day, I think. And he was out of there in less than four months, because three Purple Hearts and you're out," Mr. Dole told CNN's "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer." "But three Purple Hearts and never bled, that I know of? I mean, they're all superficial wounds," said Mr. Dole of the military decoration for troops wounded in battle. "And as far as I know, he's never spent one day in the hospital. I don't think he draws any disability pay. He doesn't have any disability — and boasting about three Purple Hearts, when you think of some of the people who really got shot up in Vietnam," Mr. Dole said. ...more... Uh oh - the Mean Old Man has his teeth in Skeery's scrawny patrician neck. The hurtin' shall now commence. Posted by: .com 2004-08-23 |
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