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| Bush: Kerry repeatedly flip-flops on Iraq war |
| 2004-08-11 |
| President Bush accused Sen. John Kerry on Tuesday of shifting positions on the war with Iraq and, in an unusually personal exchange, told a woman whose brother is headed to Iraq that he doesn't blame her for worrying about his safety. At a rally in Pensacola, Bush noted that his Democratic rival has criticized the war but said Monday that he still would have voted to give Bush the authority to go to war even if he had known that no weapons of mass destruction would be found. Kerry said he doesn't think Bush had adequate plans for winning the war or dealing with its consequences. "Almost two years after he voted for the war in Iraq, and almost 220 days after switching positions to declare himself the anti-war candidate, my opponent has found a new nuance," Bush told a cheering crowd of about 9,000 people. "He now agrees it was the right decision to go into Iraq." Kerry has consistently said that he does not regret his vote giving Bush the authority to go to war. But Bush advisers want to depict him as a chronic flip-flopper who is not committed to the war on terrorism. Before Bush arrives at each campaign event, audiences are shown a video, produced by the Republican National Committee, tracing what it describes as a history of Kerry reversals on Iraq. |
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