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Thursday, August 19, 2004

# Posted 10:09 PM by Ariel David Adesnik  

KERRY LASHES OUT AT SWIFT VETS: No surprises here. Kerry accused the Swift Vets of distorting the truth and being a Republican front. According to Kerry,
The fact that the president won't denounce what they're up to tells you everything you need to know -- he wants them to do his dirty work.

I think Kerry is half right. The President can't have it both ways. If he really thinks that Kerry's service was "noble", he should condemn the Swift Vet ads. If he wants to attack Kerry's service record he should come out and say it.

On a related note, I was somewhat surprised that neither the NYT nor the WaPo mentioned anything about Cambodia despite focusing on the Swift Vet controversy. Given the WaPo's aggressive investigation of the Swift Vets -- which has now turned up documents that seem to contradict their claims -- the paper should at least give a fair hearing to evidence that Kerry has written some revisionist history of his own.
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