Bush and Kerry Clash Over Iraq and a Timetable

[papau]

"The essence of Mr. Kerry's argument — one he has had a difficult time making — is that Mr. Bush obtained the authority to go to war on false intelligence, and then prosecuted the war in a way that alienated allies and prolonged the insurgency."

Try saying that in a network soundbite!

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/07/politics/campaign/07campaign.html


Bush and Kerry Clash Over Iraq and a Timetable
By DAVID M. HALBFINGER
and DAVID E. SANGER

Published: September 7, 2004


LEVELAND, Sept. 6 - Senator John Kerry and President Bush clashed repeatedly over Iraq on Monday, with Mr. Kerry branding it "the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time" and saying he wanted all American troops home within four years, while Mr. Bush defended the war as "right for America then and it's right for America now."

Their conventions behind them, the candidates spent Labor Day, the traditional start of the fall campaign season, doing what they have done for months: trading roundhouse punches over Iraq, job losses and health care.

Mr. Kerry, who campaigned before blue-collar workers in suburban Pittsburgh and coal miners in West Virginia and in an African-American neighborhood in Cleveland, unveiled a new attack on Mr. Bush, saying voters needed to decide between the president's "wrong choices and wrong direction for America" and his own promises to create jobs, strengthen the economy and expand access to health care.

"The W stands for wrong,'' Mr. Kerry said in a riff on the president's middle initial at a labor picnic in Racine, W.Va.

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[seabeyond]

1. not 30 sec......take all of two minutes to focus and listen

i know you can do it. not going to lower expectations to such anymore. have worked to here over a decade, i know we as a people can listen for all of two minutes.

after all we are talking about the lives of soldiers, iraqi's adn the health of the world

f* we can give it a mere two minutes and i am tired of acknowledging anything less

[Catfight]

2. Bush=Phoney...I like that! n/t

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