AP Interview: Bush faults Kerry for 'shameless scare tactics' [View All]

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AP Interview: Bush faults Kerry for 'shameless scare tactics'
TERENCE HUNT, AP White House Correspondent

Monday, October 18, 2004

(10-18) 10:15 PDT ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (AP) --

President Bush on Monday accused Democratic rival Sen. John Kerry of "shameless scare tactics" by suggesting that the president would jeopardize Social Security for older Americans and bring back the military draft for young people.

Bush, in an Associated Press interview, said of Kerry, "He's trying to scare our seniors. It is wrong to try to scare people going into the polls."

The Republican incumbent said Kerry's charges were just "old-style politics."

Kerry said Sunday that Bush was planning a "January surprise" attempt to privatize Social Security if re-elected. As for reviving the draft to replenish U.S. forces in Iraq, the Democrat told The Des Moines Register last week that, "With George Bush, the plan for Iraq is more of the same and the great potential of a draft."

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