Bush Defends War, Kerry Sees 'Spin Mode'
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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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President Bush accused Sen. John Kerry on Friday of being too inconsistent to lead the country but Kerry shot back that the president was using that line of attack to shift attention from his deceptions on Iraq.
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John Kerry accused President Bush on Sunday of avoiding "the facts and the truth" about the White House's use of questionable intelligence to justify invading Iraq.
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Sept. 7, 2004 - Hitting President Bush on the issues of jobs and the war in Iraq, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry is moving aggressively in the face of polls showing his candidacy lagging.
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Senator John Kerry said at a National Guard conference on Thursday that President Bush was living in &quot;a fantasy world of spin&quot; and that the president had deceived
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WASHINGTON - President Bush and Democratic rival John Kerry traded biting accusations over the war in Iraq on Monday as early Florida voting produced scattered complaints that stirred memories of the state's chaotic 2000 recount.    On a day of strikingly personal campaign rhetoric, Bush said his Democratic challenger stands for "protest and defeatism" in Iraq...
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ST. LOUIS - In a debate rematch Friday, President Bush defended his invasion of Iraq and said "I wasn't happy when we found there weren't weapons" that prompted his administration to go to war against Saddam Hussein...
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Democrat John Kerry told National Guard veterans Thursday that President Bush operates from &quot;a fantasy world of spin&quot; when he describes the situation in Iraq.
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DERRY, N.H.  - President Bush accused Democrat  John Kerry on Monday of "new contradictions of his old  positions on Iraq" and defended the U.S.-led invasion a day  before addressing skeptical world leaders at the United  Nations.
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With popular former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani at his side, President Bush accused Democratic Sen. John Kerry on Monday of having a defensive "wait-and-see" approach to fighting the war on terror.
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President Bush and Democratic rival John Kerry clashed on Thursday over the outlook for Iraq, with Kerry accusing Bush of living in "a fantasy world of spin" and the Bush campaign condemning Kerry's pessimism.
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President Bush defended the Iraq  war before skeptical world leaders on Tuesday, called on them  to help post-Saddam Iraq develop into a democracy and vowed not  to retreat against an insurgency that threatens more violence  in the country.
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Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry renewed his pointed attacks on President George W. Bush&#39;s handling of Iraq, accusing him of failing to &quot;level with the world&#39;s leaders&quot; about the war during his speech at the UN.
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BOSTON - John Kerry fought back Thursday against campaign allegations that he exaggerated his combat record in Vietnam, accusing President Bush of using a Republican front group "to do his dirty work" and challenging Bush to debate their wartime service records.   "Well, if he wants to have a debate about our service in Vietnam, here is my answer: Bring it on," said the Democratic presidential candidate, reviving an old war and campaign slogan amid strong urging from party leaders for him to respond to two-week-old GOP assertions...
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President Bush and Democratic Sen. John Kerry traded sharp accusations over Iraq and the war on terror on Monday, with Bush condemning Kerry's "strategy of retreat" and Kerry saying the administration's Iraq policy had been "hijacked by ideologues."
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ORLANDO, Fla.  - Democratic challenger John Kerry  pivoted from the contentious debate over Iraq to  bread-and-butter issues Saturday and accused President Bush of  "serious misjudgments" on the economy as well as the war.
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Democratic challenger John Kerry pivoted from the contentious debate over Iraq to bread-and-butter issues Saturday and accused President Bush of "serious misjudgments" on the economy as well as the war.