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EDITORIAL Military One-Upmanship February 13, 2004 Now that the White House has released a copy of a Jan. 6, 1973, dental exam with a chart of President Bush's teeth when he was at the Dannelly Field Air National Guard base in Alabama, it must come as a relief to dentists ? and other Americans ? to learn that Bush was taking good care of his choppers as a young man. This is the so-called best that the still-young presidential race is offering. The White House desperately tries to rebut Democratic charges that the president failed to fulfill his service in...

The White House released dental records intended to support President Bush (news - web sites)'s account of his Air National Guard service in Alabama, while several members of the Guard unit said in interviews they don't remember ever seeing Bush at their Montgomery base. Nor does the dentist specifically recall treating Bush. But all of them told The Associated Press that doesn't mean he wasn't there, serving alongside hundreds of others in the Guard unit. The White House late Wednesday released a copy of a dental evaluation Bush had at Dannelly Air National Guard Base in Montgomery on Jan. 6,...

"Hanoi" Jane Fonda rushed to defend Sen. John Kerry on Wednesday after a photo published by NewsMax.com on Monday picturing her with the Democratic presidential front-runner sparked outrage across the nation. "The American people have had it with the big lie," Fonda complained on CNN, suggesting that the photo showing her and Kerry at the same Sept. 1970 Vietnam war protest at Valley Forge, Penn., was misleading. "Any attempt to link Kerry to me and make him look bad with that connection is completely false," the radical actress insisted. While Fonda admitted that she and Kerry addressed the crowd...

John Kerry was a war hero, but for which side? As mentioned by Ollie North and reported on newsmax, North Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap credited John Kerry's Vietnam Veterans Against the War to a great degree with helping the communists ultimately win the war. Ollie attributed this revelation to Giap's 1985 memoir, but I cannot find a book by Giap from that particular war. Does anyone know what the book is, or better yet, have the exact quote from the book pertaining to this is? I would like to add the quote from General Giap to the above image...