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Article: Vietnam War has no place in 2004 election.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune
- Article date:
- August 25, 2004
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Byline: Joseph L. Galloway
WASHINGTON _ One more time, with feeling: The Vietnam War has no place in the presidential election of 2004, much less being the ONLY issue anyone is talking about.
That war is over. It ended 29-plus years ago when the last helicopters lifted off the roofs of Saigon. Yet here we are busily dissecting the obscure events of an obscure part of that war.
Some are using the events of 35 years ago to assassinate the character of a candidate who fought in their war, beside them, in order to promote the re-election of a president who avoided that war and a vice president who said he had better things to do in the 1960s and ...