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Blame Fonda, Kerry for smearing veterans Like my father and older brother before me, my only ambition as a young man was to serve my country as a U.S. Marine. I started my tour of duty in the early 1970s. I could hardly wait for the day when I graduated from boot camp and received my first uniform. Unfortunately, being a Marine was not a popular notion during those times. At my first duty station at Camp Pendleton, California, we were discouraged from wearing our uniforms off base for our own personal safety. I served with a lot of Marines...

MIDI - DO YOU WANT TO KNOW A SECRET You were the ally of Vietnam's commies Now you expect us to believe in you? Kerry...we all want to know the secrets...there are things you ought to tell Whoa whoa whoa, really Will you show us what you wrote...before it is time to vote We're not trusting you....no no no no Kerry, you now want to be our leader...but you sold your comrades out Whoa whoa whoa, really "Baby killers" you had claimed...reputations you defamed We're not trusting you....no no no no You won some medals, that is very true...

The editor of the Daily Mirror has resigned after admitting its alleged Iraqi abuse pictures had been "a hoax". Piers Morgan's decision came as the paper "apologised unreservedly" for printing the pictures. The editor, one of the best known faces in Fleet Street, had earlier brushed away growing pressure on him to quit. The Queen's Lancashire Regiment, subject of the abuse allegations, had said the pictures were "utter and complete nonsense". Military figures for the regiment said the photos are fake and that the newspaper should apologise. In a hard-hitting press conference at Fulwood Barracks, Preston, key figures for the...

WASHINGTON, April 13 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Senator John Kerry issued the following statement tonight in response to the President's news conference: "Tonight, the President had the opportunity to tell the American people what steps he was going to take to stabilize the situation in Iraq. Unfortunately, he offered no specific plan whatsoever. Rather, the President made it clear that he intends to stubbornly cling to the same policy that has led to a greater risk to American troops and a steadily higher cost to the American taxpayer. "We need to set a new course in Iraq. We need to internationalize...