Kerry Blasts Bush for 'Colossal Failures' in Iraq (Reuters)

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Kerry Blasts Bush for 'Colossal Failures' in Iraq

By Ellen Wulfhorst

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Democrat John Kerry (news - web sites) turned up his criticism of President Bush (news - web sites)'s leadership in Iraq (news - web sites) on Monday, accusing him of "colossal failures of judgment" that have turned the country into a haven for terrorists and made America more vulnerable.


The Democratic presidential candidate argued in a speech at New York University that the U.S.-led invasion had weakened national security.


"The president's policy in Iraq precipitated the very problem he said he was trying to prevent," Kerry said. "Iraq is becoming a sanctuary for a new generation of terrorists who someday could hit the United States."

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040920/ts_nm/campaign_kerry_dc&cid=564&ncid=1963&sid=96378800

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1. powerful against the srhub....

"The president misled, miscalculated, and mismanaged every aspect of this undertaking," Kerry said, accusing Bush of making "catastrophic decisions" and surrounding himself with ideologues who provide "stubborn incompetence."


"The president now admits to miscalculations in Iraq," Kerry said. "His were not the equivalent of accounting errors. They were colossal failures of judgment -- and judgment is what we look for in a president."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040...

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2. It's Bush who's twisting in the wind

Twisting...twisting...his colossal poisonous ego hung him up there, and the horror of it that our national security and ability to protect ourselves is hanging there too.

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3. Full text of the speech is available at Kerry's website

http://www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/speeches/spc_2004_0920.html

If he keeps this up, he may just win this thing yet!!!!!!

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4. Replayed on Cspan @ 8pm EDT. today.

Record it if you can. Then pass it around.

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5. kick