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Leonard
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posted October 28, 2004 10:24 AM
KERRY'S PHONY ISSUE
Updated: 12:30 PM EDT
Candidates Trade Shots About Leadership
Kerry Keeps Up Criticism on Iraq; Bush Says Kerry Is the 'Wrong Man'
By CALVIN WOODWARD and MARY DALRYMPLE, AP
TOLEDO, Ohio (Oct. 28) -- In a stinging exchange, President Bush criticized Democratic challenger John Kerry as ''the wrong man for the wrong job at the wrong time''
For the fourth consecutive day, Kerry assailed Bush over the disclosure that nearly 400 tons of explosives were missing in Iraq
Bush began his day in Saginaw, Mich., with an unstinting attack on Kerry.
''A president cannot blow in the wind,'' he said of Kerry.
''Senator Kerry has taken a lot of different positions, but he's rarely taken a stand,'' Bush said. ''Consistency is not the senator's strong suit.''
Interviewed on ABC, Boston pitcher Curt Schilling urged viewers to vote for the president.
Kerry has turned the issue of missing explosives into a major focus of his campaign this week~
Bush sought to turn the controversy to his own advantage. He said his rival was showing a ''complete disregard for the facts. Senator Kerry will say anything to get elected,'' the president said.
Bush's campaign surrogates rallied to his defense.
Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, said the troops in Iraq, not the president, bore the responsibility for searching for the explosives, and he said no one knows if any mistakes were made.
''John Kerry wants to pretend we do know what happened,'' Giuliani told ''Today.'' ''We don't know what happened. The best possibility is that those explosives were gone even before the troops got there ... at least it's an equal possibility. John Kerry hasn't admitted that. Instead, John Kerry became an attack dog.''
Kerry was keeping up his drumbeat of criticism over the circumstances surrounding the explosives in Iraq.
''The missing explosives could very likely be in the hands of terrorists and insurgents, who are actually attacking our forces now 80 times a day on average,'' he said in Iowa on Wednesday.
The president struck back by saying the senator simply did not know what happened there.
''A political candidate who jumps to conclusions without knowing the facts is not a person you want as your commander in chief,'' Bush told supporters Wednesday.
Polls suggest Bush and Kerry are running even not only in Iowa and Michigan, but in an improbable variety of other battleground states and nationally as well. Bush pressed hard for crossover votes.
''If you're a Democrat, and your dreams and goals are not found in the far left wing of the Democrat party, I'd be honored to have your vote,'' he said at several appearances.
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