Kerry Attacks Bush Officials Who Received Draft Deferrals: "'I'm tired of these Republicans, who spend so much time denigrating Democrats and other people's commitment to the defense of our nation,' Mr. Kerry, the Democrats' presumptive presidential nominee, told thousands of students at the University of Pittsburgh.
'I went,' added Mr. Kerry, a decorated Navy combat veteran. 'I'm not going to listen to them talk to me about patriotism and how asking questions about the direction of our country somehow challenges patriotism, because asking questions about the direction of our country is patriotism.'
The sharp words came a day before Mr. Cheney was expected to attack Mr. Kerry when the vice president delivered the keynote address at the National Rifle Association convention in Pittsburgh..
Mr. Cheney received a student deferment from the draft in 1963, when he was attending Casper College in Wyoming, and another when he went to graduate school in 1965. As an expectant father the next year, he received a hardship deferment. "
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