Posted on 02/04/2004 12:41:58 PM PST by PhiKapMom
KERRY AND TERRY INSULT NATIONAL GUARD
Kerry Associates National Guard Service With Draft-Dodging, DNC Chair Says Not Military
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Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) Compares Guard Service To Draft-Dodging. If people went to Canada, if people opposed the war, if people chose to be in the Guard, thats their choice, and Ive never raised that in an issue, he said. (Noelle Straub, Kerry Presents Himself As GOPs Worst Nightmare, Boston Herald, 2/3/04)
Kerry Repeats Insult Of Guard. Ive never made any judgments about any choice somebody made about avoiding the draft, about going to Canada, going to jail, being a conscientious objector, going into the National Guard, Kerry, a decorated Vietnam veteran, told Fox News Channel. Those are choices people make. (Nick Anderson, Buoyant Kerry Embraces Role Of Frontrunner, Los Angeles Times, 2/4/04)
Over 460,000 Men And Women Serving In Air And Army National Guard. (2003 Reserve Forces Almanac, 2003, p.100)
8,866 National Guard Soldiers Participated In Iraq War. (Forces: U.S. & Coalition/Army, Army National Guard, CNNs War In Iraq Special Report Website, http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/forces/coalition/deployment/army/army.national.guard.html, Accessed 2/3/04)
22 Percent, Or More Than 28,000, Of 130,000 Soldiers In Iraq Right Now Are From National Guard And Reserves. (Jim Garamone, Officials Detail Iraq Rotation Plans To Congress, American Forces Press Service, 1/28/04; Ron Martz, Guard, Reserve Dying In Iraq, Cox News Service, 1/17/04)
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