McCain condemns anti Kerry ad

[patti1]

WASHINGTON - Republican Sen. John McCain, a former prisoner of war in Vietnam, called an ad criticizing John Kerry (news - web sites)'s military service "dishonest and dishonorable" and urged the White House on Thursday to condemn it as well.

The White House declined.


"It was the same kind of deal that was pulled on me," McCain said in an interview with The Associated Press, comparing the anti-Kerry ad to tactics in his bitter Republican primary fight with President Bush .

[luvmetender]

YES YES YES!!!

I did hear that the bush people have decided to not support this ad.

Also, none of the guys on this ad were on Kerry's boat.

[CagedTroll]

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A week after Senator John F. Kerry heralded his wartime experience by surrounding himself at the Democratic convention with his Vietnam ''Band of Brothers," a separate group of veterans has launched a television ad campaign and a book that questions the basis for some of Kerry's combat medals.

But yesterday, a key figure in the anti-Kerry campaign, Kerry's former commanding officer, backed off one of the key contentions. Lieutenant Commander George Elliott said in an interview that he had made a ''terrible mistake" in signing an affidavit that suggests Kerry did not deserve the Silver Star -- one of the main allegations in the book.

[telos2000]

Yes, this is the guy that taught Kerry how to flip-flop.

[CagedTroll]

Maybe, but it would've been [Only registered and activated users can see links. Either login above or Register Now] Another vet from that ad, Adrian Lonsdale, said in 1996---

"As far as I was concerned, the war was won over there in that part for that period. And it was mainly won because of the bravado and the courage of the young officers that ran the boats, the SWIFT boats and the Coast Guard cutters and Senator Kerry was no exception. He was among the finest of those."