Kerry, Bush trade barbs on Iraq

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Kerry, Bush trade barbs on Iraq

BY THOMAS FITZGERALD

Knight Ridder Newspapers


CLEVELAND - (KRT) - Sen. John Kerry accused President Bush Monday of sending U.S. troops to "the wrong war, in the wrong place at the wrong time" in Iraq, and found himself dragged back into a debate on the war issue that he had hoped to avoid in favor of a traditional Labor Day focus on the economy.

Within hours, Bush rebuked Kerry for taking "yet another new position" on the war in Iraq that has bedeviled the Democratic challenger because he voted first to authorize it, then voted against additional funding for it, and finally, last month, admitted he still would have voted to authorize it even if he had known that no weapons of mass destruction would be found.

Coming at a time when Kerry is reorganizing his campaign staff as many Democrats are voicing concern that his campaign appears to be spinning its wheels, Kerry's sharper tone against the Iraq war may reflect determination to fire up his base of support following the Republican National Convention's dominance of politics last week.

Bush responded: "After voting for the war, but against funding it, after saying he would have voted for the war even knowing everything we know today, my opponent woke up this morning with new campaign advisors, and yet another new position. Suddenly, he's against it again," the president said, to laughter, at an evening rally in Poplar Bluff, Mo.

As the audience chanted "flip-flop, flip-flop," Bush continued:

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[The_Casual_Observer]

1. "After voting for the war, but against funding it"

So now bush admits that the vote was a vote for war! He admits that that was the idea, to fool the congress into authorizing bush to go to war pure and simple.

[wrang_wrang]

2. Better an honest flip-flop than a lying jackboot

Better a

than a