Dayton criticizes Bush's baseball game appearance in time of battle [View All]

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WASHINGTON - Sen. Mark Dayton criticized President Bush for throwing out the first pitch at a baseball game this week, calling it inappropriate to do while soldiers were dying in Iraq.

"On Monday, when again Americans were under attack, the day in fact that Moises Langhorst lost his life fighting in Iraq, President Bush was throwing out the first pitch in a baseball game in St. Louis and then holding a fund-raiser that evening that raised a million and a half dollars," Dayton, D-Minn., said in a conference call with reporters Wednesday.

Langhorst, 19, a Marine from Moose Lake, Minn., was killed somewhere in the Fallujah-Ramadi area of Iraq, his family's pastor said Wednesday. He was the second Marine from Minnesota to fall in as many days.

On Monday, Bush threw out the first pitch in the opening game for the St. Louis Cardinals and Milwaukee Brewers.

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