Dole calls on Kerry to apologize

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ÔÇ£CRAWFORD, Texas - Former Republican Sen. Bob Dole suggested Sunday that John Kerry apologize for past testimony before Congress about alleged atrocities during the Vietnam War and joined critics of the Democratic presidential candidate who say he received an early exit from combat for ÔÇ£superficial wounds.ÔÇØ..........

One day heÔÇÖs saying that we were shooting civilians, cutting off their ears, cutting off their heads, throwing away his medals or his ribbons,ÔÇØ Dole said. ÔÇ£The next day heÔÇÖs standing there, ÔÇÿI want to be president because IÔÇÖm a Vietnam veteran. ÔÇ£Maybe he should apologize to all the other 2.5 million veterans who served. He wasnÔÇÖt the only one in Vietnam,ÔÇØ said Dole, whose World War II wounds left him without the use of his right arm.

Dole also called on Kerry to release all the records of his service in Vietnam.

Another wacko I suppose.....

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Authors of a new book criticizing John Kerry's service in Vietnam write the Democrat took no enemy fire on the night he sustained a slight injury for which he received a Purple Heart, an injury he caused himself by firing a grenade launcher at too close a range.

In "Unfit for Command," scheduled for release Aug. 15, John O'Neill, who took over Kerry's swift-boat command, and co-author Jerome Corsi explain the scratch was caused by Kerry's firing an M-79 grenade launcher too close, "causing a tiny piece of shrapnel (one to two centimeters) to barely stick in his arm."

"Unfit for Command" mentions how most military personnel view the Purple Heart as an honor fit only for those more severely injured. It quotes veteran Gary Townsend, who said, "I  turned down a Purple Heart award (which required seven stitches) offered to me while in Nam because I thought a little cut was insignificant as to what others had suffered to get theirs."