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Politics : WHO IS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT IN 2004
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To: calgal who wrote (10935)8/31/2004 11:55:50 PM
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Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2004 3 p.m. EDT
McCain: Grill Kerry on War Crimes Claim
In his harshest comments to date about John Kerry, Sen. John McCain said Monday that the presidential candidate's claims that he committed atrocities during the Vietnam War is a "legimitate" area of concern that requires further explanation.

Asked if Kerry should be asked to provide details about his 1971 admission on "The Dick Cavett Show" that he commited atrocities that violated the Geneva and Hague Conventions, McCain told ABC network radio host Sean Hannity, "I think that that's legitimate. I do."

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But McCain defended Kerry's controversial testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee just three months before the Cavett broadcast, where he accused his brother soldiers of battlefield barbarity "reminiscent of Ghengis Khan."

"I don't agree with his statements and I said I didn't agree with those postwar [comments]," the Arizona Republican said. "But people have the right to disagree with their government. It was people's right to protest against the Vietnam War and that's one of the things we fight for."

The former POW said a 1973 article he wrote for U.S. News & World Report where he talked about being "bombarded" by his Hanoi Hilton jailers with statements from prominent anti-war activists was not a direct reference to Kerry's 1971 Senate testimony.
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