Iraq looms large for Bush election campaign

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CRAWFORD, United States (AFP) - The challenges facing the US-led coalition in Iraq (news - web sites) are looming large in President George W. Bush (news - web sites)'s re-election campaign, while Democrats keep assailing the Republican leader's war strategy ahead of the November vote.


Senator Ted Kennedy, a Democratic Party stalwart, led the charge Monday with another one of his stinging rebukes of Bush's rationale for going to war in Iraq.


"A year after the war began, Americans are questioning why the administration went to war in Iraq when Iraq was not an imminent threat, when it had no weapons, no persuasive links to al-Qaeda, and no connection to the terrorist attacks on September 11th, and no stockpiles of chemical or biological weapons," Kennedy said in a speech to the Brookings Institution, a Washington think-tank.


Kennedy, a critic of Bush's Iraq policy, is one Massachusetts' two senators. The other one is Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry (news - web sites), for whom Kennedy has been vigorously campaigning.

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1. It sickens me to think that another tidal wave of American blood,

AND innocent Iraqi blood, too, is going to have to gush before the mindless, here, are motivated to STOP GUSHING ABOUT bUSH!!!

I fear that's what it'll take.

And yes. Innocent Iraqis. Many of them still are. Still more, now fighting against us with everything they've got, are brand new enemies we have just created for ourselves - folks who probably once regarded us as relatively benevolent.

We have turned everyone against us. It turns my stomach every day.