JOE LOCKHART, what a great spokesman for our side!!!

[Bluebear]

Democratic White House hopeful John Kerry's campaign spokesman Joe Lockhart said the report is a stinging indictment of the Bush administration's prewar intelligence and foreign policy judgment.

"I think it raises some serious questions," Lockhart told CBS television's "Face the Nation" program.

"Secretary (of State Colin) Powell went up and based most of his assessment on Saddam's nuclear threat on these aluminum tubes to the United Nations. That he did in public. Condoleezza Rice raised the specter of a mushroom cloud. That is sobering to all Americans. Vice President Cheney said this was a fact. He didn't say there was debate. He said this was a fact.

"This is about what the president knew, what he withheld from the American public, if anything," Lockhardt said. "These are questions he should answer now."

The report is another blow to White House credibility on foreign policy matter as the presidential campaign enters a critical 10 day period, with a vice-presidential faceoff on Tuesday and two more scheduled debates between Bush and Kerry.

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