Yahoo News - Kerry Says Bush Uses Surrogates to Do Dirty Work
BOSTON (Reuters) - John Kerry accused President Bush of using surrogates to "do his dirty work," as the Democratic presidential challenger hit back on Thursday at a Republican assault on his Vietnam War record.

In his toughest response yet to questions of whether he deserved the honors he won in war, Kerry said if the president wanted to debate the issue of their respective battle records then "Bring it on."

Kerry said a group called the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, which has attacked the Massachusetts senator's war record in television advertisements, was funded by hundreds of thousands of dollars from a Republican contributor in Texas, Bush's home state.

"They're a front for the Bush campaign. And the fact that the president won't denounce what they're up to tells you everything you need to know: he wants them to do his dirty work," Kerry told a convention of the International Association of Fire Fighters, which supports him.

Good to see John finally answering some of these claims, but disappointed that Bush has been successful at keeping the focus off of what is happening in the "now" as opposed to thirty years ago.

(P.S. Have found a way around the Blogger problem- just clean up the header by cut and paste in the "a href" section. More work, but whaddayagonnado.....)