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Bush supporters say the Democratic challenger is no friend to hunters. YOUNGSTOWN — John Kerry, the Democratic presidential nominee, went hunting today in Poland Township in an effort to show sportsmen and hunters that he is one of them. But officials with Ohio Sportsmen for Bush and the National Rifle Association, who recently endorsed President Bush's re-election bid, aren't buying it. "These guys are in fits about this because John Kerry has credibility as a sportsman and a hunter," said Brendon Cull, spokesman for the Ohio Democratic Coordinated Campaign. "For them to say he's not a sportsman and a hunter...

September 24, 2004 Was Kerry In Iraq In 1991 For Cease-Fire Accord? Frequent CQ contributor Bandit watched the O'Reilly Factor last night on Fox News, which replayed a 2001 interview with Senator John Kerry. Bandit reports that during that interview three years ago, Kerry stated that he went to Iraq on March 3rd during the signing of the cease-fire agreement that ended the first Gulf War: "I mean, I was in Safwan. I went there when the signing of the armistice took place at the end of the war." That would have been a pretty remarkable trip, if Bandit reports...