] In a ferocious counterattack after a week of GOP
] convention-week criticism, [Kerry] called the wartime
] commander in chief and Vice President Dick Cheney unfit
] to lead the nation.
]
] "I'm not going to have my commitment to defend this
] country questioned by those who have refused to serve
] when they could have and by those who have misled the
] nation into Iraq," he said at a midnight rally in Ohio
] less than an hour after the president concluded his own
] remarks.
]
] Kerry won five military medals in the Vietnam War; Bush
] was stateside in the National Guard and Cheney's five
] draft-era deferments kept him out of the service.

Finally, Kerry strikes back.

Bush says 'we will prevail' over terrorism; Kerry calls president unfit to lead