Sherrod Brown: GOP trying to deflect attention from Iraq failures

[OzarkDem]

CINCINNATI - U.S. Rep. Sherrod Brown, leading in late polls over Republican Sen. Mike DeWine, warned Democrats on Wednesday against GOP scare tactics and deflected the controversy surrounding a comment about Iraq by 2004 Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry.

"Of course, they (Republicans) are using it as a rallying call because they want to change the subject. John Kerry stumbled on a joke, it didn't come out right," Brown said in an interview. "The people who should apologize are George Bush and Mike DeWine for sending our troops into battle without body armor and without examining the cooked intelligence."

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At the rally, Brown predicted GOP scares about race, crime, immigration and terrorists.

"Don't let them scare you; don't let them divide you; don't let them divide this country, because that's the only way they win," he said.

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