John Kerry said Monday there might be a next time for his presidential aspirations, and if there is, the 63-year-old U.S. senator from Massachusetts says heÂ’ll be ready for the political torpedoes that helped sink his 2004 White House bid. Kerry, whose service as a U.S. Navy Swift boat skipper during the Vietnam War came under attack in his race against President Bush, said he has compiled a dossier on his war record critics that he wishes he had as the Democratic presidential nominee.
| Still hasn't released his records, though. |
``We have put together a documented portfolio that frankly puts their lies in such a total light of absurdity and indecency, that should they ever rear their ugly heads again, we have every single ‘t’ crossed and ‘i’ dotted, and I welcome that in a sense,'' Kerry said following a morning address to the South Shore Chamber fo Commerce. ``It’s a shame we weren’t able to produce all that at the time.''
How about producing your original DD214, John?
| He released parts of it to a couple of news organizations, from what I remember. I don't think either you or I are privileged enough to see the whole thing. I just want to know his discharge status. |
Kerry said he regrets his slowness to counter accusations from the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, which faulted KerryÂ’s war record and his subsequent anti-war activism. ``I think the bigger problem was the campaign should have spent more money putting the truth out there,'' Kerry said. ``I think there was an assumption that is was out there, it was sufficiently out there.''
"A little more money and I could have had a better truth made up." |