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Gore vows to keep military strong; Bush tries to clarify tax-cut plan.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

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| August 22, 2000 | Enda, Jodi; Hutcheson, Ron | COPYRIGHT 1999 Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

MILWAUKEE _ Vice President Al Gore on Tuesday sharply rejected the contentions of Republican presidential nominee George W. Bush that America's military is unprepared, telling thousands of veterans that the nation's forces are the strongest in the world and pledging to keep them so.

"I say to you today: I love this country with all my heart, and I will make sure our military continues to be the best-trained, best- equipped, best-led fighting force in the world _ bar none," Gore told a convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.

Bush told the same group a day earlier that the next president "will inherit a military in decline." During his speech accepting the GOP presidential nomination earlier this month, Bush said the nation's…

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