Bush denounces ad attacking Kerry war record

President George Bush today denounced a television advertisement attacking John Kerry’s war record and called for a halt to all such political ads by outside groups.

Bush said he does not think there ought to be any unregulated groups involved in the political discourse.

“That means that ad and every other ad,” he said. “I think they’re bad for the system.”

He was referring specifically to an ad sponsored by Swift Boat Veterans for Truth that said Kerry did not deserve his Purple Hearts, lied to get his Bronze Star and Silver Star, was not fighting in neutral Cambodia as he said he was and that he unfairly branded all veterans with his 1971 congressional testimony about atrocities in Vietnam.