Campaigning Kerry Pledges to Protect Veterans

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Campaigning Kerry Pledges to Protect Veterans

By Greg Frost
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Reuters) - Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry told fellow veterans on Wednesday that he would do a better job than President Bush at protecting America's military men and women at home and abroad.

Speaking to the American Legion, the largest U.S. veterans' group, a day after Bush addressed the same convention, Kerry also said he would accomplish "real success" both in Iraq and the war on terror.

"When it comes to Iraq, it's not that I would've done one thing differently, I would have done everything differently," Kerry, a decorated Vietnam veteran, told the group.

Bush and Kerry have aggressively courted America's 26 million veterans, seen as a key political constituency because a high percentage of them vote.

http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=6127514

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1. Read the speech here, it's great

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=103&topic_id=71093&mesg_id=71093