Bush: Damaging blow as poll battle intensifies
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&quot;Wait until Charlie gets back with the final report,&quot; Mr Bush said in June, fending off reporters trying to get him to admit that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction.
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THE ISSUE: While the race for the presidency is now a virtual dead-heat between President Bush and Democrat John Kerry, on Election Day it could turn into a landslide.
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Candidates have much at stake if the war outlasts President Bush's tenure.
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President Bush says Democratic challenger, Senator John Kerry&#39;s vote against a military funding bill raises questions about his ability to lead the nation.
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President Bush criticized Democratic  Sen. John Kerry's "liberal" voting record on Tuesday ahead of  their final debate, which will focus on domestic issues like  taxes, jobs and health care that have been overshadowed by the  Iraq war.
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President Bush and Democratic rival  John Kerry traded blows over jobs and security on Friday as  they began a final two-month election sprint, with Bush touting  his economic record and Kerry launching a fierce counter-attack  on Republicans who "can't tell the truth."
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US President George W. Bush, urging deeply divided voters to give him four more years in the White House, attacked his Democratic rival Thursday and defended the wars he waged in Iraq and Afghanistan after the September 11 attacks.
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Unable to deliver on its lofty goal  of bringing democracy to Iraq through the Jan. 30 elections,  the Bush administration is pressing a damage-control campaign  to lower expectations for the vote.
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President George W Bush&#39;s record serving in the National Guard during the Vietnam War became the focus of the increasingly heated election campaign yesterday.
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The war is creating a nasty array of problems for President Bush as he gears up for an ambitious second term.
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Fifty days out from the US presidential election, the rhetoric is becoming nastier between George W. Bush and Democratic challenger John Kerry, as the US president's lead appears to be solidifying.
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President Bush criticized Democratic Sen. John Kerry's "liberal" voting record on Tuesday ahead of their final debate, which will focus on domestic issues like taxes, jobs and health care that have been overshadowed by the Iraq war.
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US President George W. Bush and his Democratic challenger John Kerry hit the campaign trail hard on the final straight of an increasingly vicious neck-and-neck race for the White House.
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President Bush and Sen. John Kerry feuded Thursday over the nation's economy, with the Republican incumbent boasting about the impact of his "well-timed tax cuts" and his Democratic rival bemoaning a new report of rising poverty.
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President Bush has been dogged by a spate of bad news in the final days of the presidential campaign but it is unclear whether that will sway enough voters to affect the election outcome.
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President Bush is now in a statistical dead heat with Democratic challenger Sen. John Kerry for the Nov. 2 election, in a tightening of the race after the first debate last week, a poll on Monday showed.
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WASHINGTON: George W. Bush&#39;s re-election hopes suffered a blow yesterday as official statistics showed 1.3 million more Americans were forced into poverty last year.