From MSNBC, 1/30/04:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4114162
Patriot Games
Bush strategists may feel tempted to attack John Kerry’s opposition to
Vietnam.
Why it’s a battle they can’t win
WEB EXCLUSIVE
By Eleanor Clift
Newsweek
The voters don't want to refight the Vietnam war, but with John Kerry
looking like the likely nominee, Vietnam returns to the front pages.
Kerry is accompanied on the campaign trail by the men he served with
in the Mekong Delta.
"I know a little something about aircraft carriers for real," he says,
in an allusion to President George W. Bush's premature "Mission
Accomplished" landing last spring on the USS Abraham Lincoln.
There is another chapter to Kerry's war history that Republicans are
examining, and that is his leadership in 1971 of Vietnam Veterans
Against the War.
Some GOP strategists envision television ads linking Kerry with Jane
Fonda in order to undermine his credentials as a decorated war
veteran.
Highlighting Kerry's antiwar activism is a risky strategy for the
Republicans.
To quote Kerry, who quotes the president:
"Bring it on."
If the election turns into a debate over war records, Bush can't win.
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Your move, Karl.
Harry
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