Kerry has been smeared, but will Bush renounce the scumbags?

WITH the American presidential election campaign about to start officially on Monday, the nightmare of Vietnam looms ever larger.

Republicans are attacking John Kerry for highlighting his role in the war as a means of demeaning the part played by US President George W Bush.

Some Republicans are contending that Kerry got three purple hearts for being wounded just so that he could get an early ticket home from Vietnam. The Democrats, on the other hand, claim that Kerry has still got shrapnel in his body to prove his service, while all Bush has to show is a couple of fillings in his teeth that he got on few occasions that he showed up for service in Alabama.