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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (571320)	5/3/2004 6:07:31 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Respond to of 769670

Kerry is a Fraud. - Part I. "Kerry says he never claimed to have thrown the medals as his own. But as his reputation grew as a shrewd political operator after his 1984 senate election, Kerry was dogged by a troubling political myth. He was accused of discarding his ribbons and the medals of others in 1971 to appear as an antiwar hero, while keeping his own medals for use as political props years later — a charge echoing this election year. 'It's so damn hypocritical to get these awards, throw them in the dirt and then suddenly value them again,' said B.G. Burkett, a Vietnam veteran and author who critiques Kerry's antiwar stance. 'I never ever implied that I did it,' Kerry says wearily, ... "