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'EXPLOSIVE' CHARGES AS W. HITS BACK
President Bush called John Kerry "the wrong man for the wrong job at the wrong time" yesterday as he and GOP backers launched a blistering counteroffensive in the battle over missing explosives in Iraq. With the war continuing as the main flash point in the campaign's bitter final days, the Bush and Kerry teams traded ferocious charges over explosives that went missing from the Al-Qaqaa installation. Bush, at a campaign appearance in Michigan, charged Kerry has undertaken a "campaign of contradictions.""The senator's willingness to trade principle for political convenience makes it clear John Kerry is the wrong man for the wrong job at the wrong time," Bush said in a play on one of Kerry's oft-used attack lines that the Iraq war was "the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time." Top Bush aides also struck back hard, saying the deadly material was likely removed by Saddam Hussein before U.S. troops ever got anywhere near Baghdad. Vice President Dick Cheney said Kerry is "just dead wrong" that U.S. troops failed to protect the gigantic arms depot. Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani said, "The best possibility is that the explosives were gone before the troops got there; at least it's an equal possibility." Posted by: Mark Espinola 2004-10-29 |
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