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Troop redeployment ill-advised: Kerry

WARTIME ELECTION The presidential hopeful told fellow members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars how his activities during the Vietnam War now both help and haunt him

NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE , CINCINNATI

"The job will be done when 500,000 veterans are not excluded from the VA health-care system. The job will be done when we're not closing VA hospitals. The job will be done when there are no homeless veterans on the streets of America," he said.

Kerry said he was worried that the withdrawal of 12,000 troops would destabilize the Korean peninsula "at the very time we are negotiating with North Korea -- a country that really has nuclear weapons."

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