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Kerry raised questions about Bush's service three times during his morning interview and aides did multiple times afterward, and a liberal activist group called MoveOn.Org unleashed a similar attack in new television ad. The ad, which will run in only a few markets, portrays Kerry as a war hero and Bush as, essentially, a slacker who shirked duty. Bush, the ad says, "failed to show up for a required physical -- was grounded, wasn't seen for months and then was released eight months early to go to Harvard Business School."
Another group, run by former Kerry campaign manager Jim Jordan, fired off a statement titled "Who the Hell Is Dick Cheney?" It criticized the vice president for seeking deferments to "avoid service in Vietnam."
Neither Bush nor Cheney served on active duty during the Vietnam War. Bush joined the Texas Air National Guard in 1968, trained as an F-102 fighter pilot and was honorably discharged in 1973. Democrats have pointed to gaps in available records of his service in 1972 and 1973, and although the White House has said he fulfilled his obligation, exactly what he did during that period remains unclear.
Cheney was never in the military. He received student draft deferments from 1963 to 1965 and a final deferment after his first daughter was conceived in 1966.
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…The Kerry campaign responded by releasing a document called "Cheney's Chopping Block," charging that the vice president proposed "killing over 81 weapons" when he was defense secretary under President George H.W. Bush from March 1989 to January 1993.
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