"While I was in Vietnam for four long months, George Bush spent a mere six years flying jets back in the States. I violated the Hague and Geneva conventions and the laws of warfare -- I took part in shootings in free-fire zones. I took part in search and destroy missions, in the burning of villages. All George Bush did was fly million-dollar jets around on some mission to protect the United States from attack by Soviet bombers coming from bases in Cuba or South America. While everyone in Vietnam was committing their war crimes on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command, as I told the Senate, Dick Cavett and Meet the Press in 1971, George Bush was not doing his part.

"Why wasn't George Bush in Vietnam when my fellow soldiers raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires with portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blew up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam? If he didn't commit the same kind of atrocities as thousands of other soldiers have committed, then he doesn't have the experience necessary to be President, as I do. I did take part in search-and-destroy missions in which the houses of noncombatants were burned to the ground. George Bush did not. The fact that no Soviet bombers attacked the United States during the Vietnam war means that George Bush wasn't doing anything at all to protect this country. All the other members of the Air National Guard flying the same patrols, however, were performing vital duties neccessary to protect this country, duties from which they knew they might never return.

"I referred to Vietnam as a degrading and immoral war in my book, The New Soldier, but I was a hero because I participated in that war. George Bush was not in Vietnam, where anyone who wants to be President should have been burning villages and shooting civilians. There is no record of him commiting even a single atrocity during Vietnam. How can he be President? And now we suddenly find out -- as we repeatedly told the American public in 1994 and 2000 -- that George Bush may have skipped a few meetings near the very end of his time in the Air National Guard. Although he did make up the missed time to satisfy his obligations, and was granted an honorable discharge, the real fact is that we finally found something bad to say about George Bush."

John Kerry went to Vietnam while George Bush didn't, and that should be the sole basis upon which voters make their decision this November. For those who want to consider other issues, Impartial News Network would like you to keep in mind that Republicans want to destroy the forests, start wars, kill the homeless, give tax cuts to the rich, discriminate against minorities and women, put everyone in jail, invade everyone's privacy and get rid of Medicare and Social Security. They will force your grandmother to eat cat food. How can you vote for someone who will force poor old Grandma to eat cat food?

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