As First Debate Nears, Rivals Seek to Bring Iraq Into Focus
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Three days before their televised debate on foreign policy, President Bush ridiculed Senator John Kerry today, asserting that the Democratic challenger&#39;s shifting positions
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Tonight&#39;s final presidential debate is restricted to domestic policy, but Iraq is certain to rear its controversial head. &quot;There&#39;s no way to ignore it even if you&#39;re supposed
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President George W. Bush and his Democratic rival Sen. John Kerry continued to spar as they prepared for their important first debate on Thursday.
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Rivals debate Iraq, experience and healthcare - but strive for party unity
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The rival US campaigns launch attack ads, days before the first presidential debate is set to focus on security.
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US President George W. Bush and Senator John Kerry wasted no time before clashing on terrorism and Iraq as they faced off in person for the first time in a debate that could decide their battle for the White House.
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The candidates have sharpened debate on how the United States reached this point in Iraq, but less clarity has emerged over who might have the better idea for the future.
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Two candidates, two very different tasks for the first presidential debate. John Kerry has to convince voters they should throw President Bush out of office for his actions in Iraq and at home, all the while looking and acting like a solid commander in chief himself. Bush, in office and in the lead, needs a no-mistakes performance that won't rock the election boat.
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Their first debate less than a week away, President Bush and Democrat John Kerry kept their public schedules clear on Saturday and began to focus on their prime-time showdown.
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WASHINGTON -- With voters still digesting the first presidential debate, the political focus quickly now moves to the only debate between the second bananas.
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The first of three presidential debates focused on foreign policy, with most of the discussion on Iraq. Students turn attentively to television sets on Sept.
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President Bush [related, bio] and Sen. John F. Kerry [related, bio] will go to war over Iraq tonight in their leadoff debate - a high-stakes showdown in steamy Florida that could radically recast the volatile 2004 race.
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SPRING GREEN, Wis. - President Bush and rival John Kerry paused from private debate practice on Monday to accuse each other of lack of clarity on Iraq as they campaigned in "must win" states for each - the Republican incumbent in Ohio and his Democratic challenger in Wisconsin...
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The presidential debates present both opportunity and peril for the two top candidates, with Sen. John Kerry hoping a strong performance spurs a decisive rally and President Bush aiming to seal his re-election.
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In their first head-to-head confrontation of the election campaign, President George Bush and Senator John Kerry repeatedly clashed over the war in Iraq.
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WASHINGTON - There are two presidential races going on: One here, one in Iraq. George Bush has to convince voters he isn&#39;t losing the second to be sure of winning the first.
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George W. Bush faces a crucial test for his re-election bid, reeling from new criticism of his Iraq policy as he takes on a resurgent Democratic rival John Kerry in their second televised debate.