Source : AP  [:13:16]

Democratic challenger John Kerry says President Bush is standing silent just as he did four years ago when supporters waged a campaign of "lies" to destroy the White House hopes of fellow Vietnam veteran and senator John McCain.

Kerry running mate John Edwards said Sunday that Bush needs to tell a veterans group to pull its anti-Kerry ads, a step the White House and the Bush campaign refuse to take. McCain, R-Ariz., has said the tactics are the same kind used on him and asked the president to denounce them.

The White House says it denounces all attack ads against both candidates by outside groups, while refusing to get specific about condemning the veterans group's advertising.