Bush Defends Self on Missing Explosives, Rips Kerry
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LITITZ, Pa.  - President Bush said on Wednesday  380 tons of missing explosives in Iraq might have vanished  prior to the arrival of U.S. forces and he blasted Democrat  John Kerry for making a campaign issue out of it.
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Democratic challenger John Kerry changed tack after a week of savaging President George W. Bush over missing munitions in Iraq, preaching hope and the promise of the &quot;American dream.&quot;
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Democratic candidate John Kerry charged President George W. Bush with &quot;incredible incompetence&quot; over the disappearance of powerful explosives in Iraq, while Bush accused his rival of offering a &quot;strategy of pessimism and retreat&quot; in Iraq.
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President Bush, in one of the harshest attacks of the campaign, accused Democrat John Kerry on Monday of ignoring the lessons of the Sept. 11 attacks by pursuing a "policy of weakness" that could invite disaster for the United States.
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President Bush defended his decision to invade Iraq, while John Kerry said that Mr. Bush lacked the record to justify re-election.
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In a debate rematch, President Bush defended his invasion of Iraq and said &quot;I wasn&#39;t happy when we found there weren&#39;t weapons&quot; that prompted his administration to go to war against Saddam Hussein.
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DOVER, N.H.  -- Democrat John Kerry is seizing on the Bush administration's failure to secure hundreds of tons of explosives now missing in Iraq.
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Democratic challenger John F. Kerry accused President Bush yesterday of covering up the disappearance of Iraqi explosives
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ST. LOUIS  - President Bush defended the invasion  of Iraq on Thursday despite a new report rejecting a prime  justification for it, while Democratic challenger John Kerry  said Bush "aggrandized and fictionalized" the threat from Iraqi  leader Saddam Hussein.
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Sen. John Kerry accused President Bush Thursday night of committing a "colossal error in judgment" by invading Iraq. "The world is better off without Saddam Hussein," the president shot back in campaign debate, adding his rival once said so himself.
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President Bush returned Democrat John Kerry's fire on a missing Iraqi weapons cache Wednesday, accusing his rival of rushing to judgment before all the facts were known and "denigrating the commanders" leading U.S. forces.
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President Bush&#39;s campaign intensified criticism of Sen. John Kerry&#39;s views of the war on terrorism Sunday and the Democratic challenger fought back forcefully as
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Former President Bill Clinton and Sen. John Kerry ganged up on President Bush on the campaign trail on Monday, with Clinton warning Bush wants to scare voters and Kerry slamming Bush's "incompetence" in not protecting tons of missing explosives in Iraq.
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President Bush defended his economic record and his decision to invade Iraq, while John Kerry said that Mr. Bush lacked the record to justify re-election.
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President Bush on Tuesday hammered away at Democrat John Kerry as a tax-and-spend liberal and said his decision to invade Iraq was the toughest he had made, as he prepared for his third debate with the Massachusetts senator.
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Inside the campaigns of President Bush and Sen. John Kerry, the final week before the election was a blur of tarmacs and rallies, of furious squabbling over elusive explosives
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President Bush says John Kerry&#39;s putting politics ahead of truth in the case of the missing explosives in Iraq. The Democrat has accused the administration of incompetence for failing to safeguard the explosives, stored at a site south of Baghdad.