Key Campaign Issues: The War in Iraq
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Description: Morning Edition begins a series on important issues in the presidential campaign. In the first part of the series, NPR&#39;s Steve Inskeep examines the views of President Bush and Sen. John Kerry on the war in Iraq.
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Pocketbook issues traditionally trump other concerns in national elections. But foreign policy is getting equal time this year. For President Bush, national security is the overriding campaign issue.
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BAGHDAD -- As Iraq's campaign season winds into its final week, voters will have to make their choices in a fog of limited information.
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A flurry of revelations, from Iraq&#39;s missing explosives to the flu vaccine shortage, have touched this year&#39;s presidential race.
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The Iraq war is beginning to take a back seat in the 2008 White House campaign pushed aside by concerns over the US economy and other domestic issues, the New York Times reported Thursday.
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As the death toll continues to rise in Iraq, the US-led war and the war on terror have become the dominant issues of the 2004 presidential campaign.
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MARK COLVIN: Iraq&#39;s election campaign is officially underway and already it&#39;s been hit by violence and fears that minority Sunnis will boycott next month&#39;s poll.
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Is the US safer now? Is Iraq part of the war on terror? Bush, Kerry regularly clash on the topic. By Elizabeth Wolfe. Washington - In the first presidential election since the Sept.
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Too many important policy issues are unlikely to be addressed by major party candidates in this year&#39;s presidential campaign. As of the recent Republican Convention, Sen. John Kerry
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The war in Iraq is shaping the opening stages of the contest for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, just as it did in the 2004 campaign.
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Want to get away from the Iraq war, slanted news reporting and the mud-slinging presidential election campaign that probably lies ahead?
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As the presidential campaign got underway a year ago, the candidates faced a volatile political environment dominated by the Iraq war, illegal immigration and terrorism. A year later, the campaigns are rewriting their scripts as it appears that the race may actually be shaped once more by the eco...
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TONY JONES: First to Iraq, and with the war in that country set to be front and centre in America&#39;s first presidential debate, insurgents have struck another series of deadly blows.
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Iknow, there&#39;s only one issue that matters in this presidential contest, the war in Iraq. But just in case some voters are willing to look at a domestic issue offering a crystal clear difference between President Bush and Sen.
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AMES, Iowa  - For Iowa Democrats, the 2008 presidential campaign is starting where the 2004 race ended -- with a search for plain talk and realistic plans on how to end the war in Iraq.
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WASHINGTON Sept. 19, 2004 - Democrat John Kerry links the cost of the Iraq war to problems at home and vows in a new television ad to both &quot;defend America and fight for the middle class.
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These are the positions of Republican President Bush and his Democratic challenger, Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, on some of the domestic issues in the 2004 presidential campaign: