My Way News- Kerry Faults Bush for Pursuing Saddam:
"Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry faulted President Bush on Friday for pursuing Saddam Hussein instead of Sept. 11 mastermind Osama bin Laden, a part of a Bush strategy he contended had made defeating terrorism more difficult.
'The invasion of Iraq was a profound diversion from the battle against our greatest enemy, al-Qaida,' Kerry said in a speech at Temple University. 'There's just no question about it. The president's misjudgment, miscalculation and mismanagement of the war in Iraq all make the war on terror harder to win.'
Kerry, in offering a detailed strategy to contain terrorism and to draw a sharp distinction between his and the president's views on national security, added, 'Iraq is now what it was not before the war, a haven for terrorists.'
While campaigning Friday in Lafayette, La., Vice President Dick Cheney told supporters, 'John Kerry is trying to tear down and trash all the good that has been accomplished.'
(AP) Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass, looks up a fire pole during a campaign...
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A day earlier, Kerry told The Columbus Dispatch that the president's actions in Iraq and elsewhere show Bush masquerading as a mainstream conservative while pursuing extremist policies.
'I don't view these people as conservatives,' Kerry said. 'I actually view them as extreme, and I think their policies have been extreme, and that extends all the way to Iraq, where this president, in my judgment, diverted the real war on terror - which was Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida - and almost obsessively moved to deal with Iraq in a way that weakened our nation, overextended our armed forces, cost us $200 billion and created a breach in our oldest alliances.'"
"Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry faulted President Bush on Friday for pursuing Saddam Hussein instead of Sept. 11 mastermind Osama bin Laden, a part of a Bush strategy he contended had made defeating terrorism more difficult.
'The invasion of Iraq was a profound diversion from the battle against our greatest enemy, al-Qaida,' Kerry said in a speech at Temple University. 'There's just no question about it. The president's misjudgment, miscalculation and mismanagement of the war in Iraq all make the war on terror harder to win.'
Kerry, in offering a detailed strategy to contain terrorism and to draw a sharp distinction between his and the president's views on national security, added, 'Iraq is now what it was not before the war, a haven for terrorists.'
While campaigning Friday in Lafayette, La., Vice President Dick Cheney told supporters, 'John Kerry is trying to tear down and trash all the good that has been accomplished.'
(AP) Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass, looks up a fire pole during a campaign...
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A day earlier, Kerry told The Columbus Dispatch that the president's actions in Iraq and elsewhere show Bush masquerading as a mainstream conservative while pursuing extremist policies.
'I don't view these people as conservatives,' Kerry said. 'I actually view them as extreme, and I think their policies have been extreme, and that extends all the way to Iraq, where this president, in my judgment, diverted the real war on terror - which was Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida - and almost obsessively moved to deal with Iraq in a way that weakened our nation, overextended our armed forces, cost us $200 billion and created a breach in our oldest alliances.'"
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