Just when they thought they were hurting Kerry with their swiftees and Stolen Honor gambits, Rumsfeld once again gives us ammo.
Veterans decry Rumsfeld's draft comments
By Pamela Hess
UPI Pentagon Correspondent
WASHINGTON -- A Vietnam War veterans' group is taking exception to U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's comments.
"Secretary Rumsfeld said troops from Vietnam War conscription 'added no value, no advantage, really, to the United States armed services ... '" Bobby Muller, president of Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation said in a statement issued Friday. "As Vietnam veterans who served with conscripted soldiers, we find Secretary Rumsfeld's egregious slur a grave insult to the memory, sacrifice and valor of those who lost their lives, and, further, dismissive of the hundreds and thousands of lives, both in the U.S. and in Vietnam, who were devastatingly shattered by the Vietnam War."
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