Kerry Accuses Bush of Avoiding the Truth on Iraq

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Is he calling * a liar?

By Greg Frost

AUSTINTOWN, Ohio (Reuters) - John Kerry accused President Bush on Sunday of avoiding "the facts and the truth" about the White House's use of questionable intelligence to justify invading Iraq.

Kerry cited a report in The New York Times on Sunday that said the White House knew before ordering the invasion of Iraq that key intelligence on Saddam Hussein's alleged nuclear weapons program was questionable.


Kerry said the report not only raised "serious questions about whether the administration was open and honest" about Iraq but also might explain Bush's upbeat assessment of the U.S. economy.


"All too often the administration also chooses to avoid the facts and the truth," Kerry said at a campaign stop in northeastern Ohio, an economically distressed pocket of this battleground state at the heart of America's rust belt.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20041003/pl_nm/campaign_kerry_dc&cid=615&ncid=1480

[bigpathpaul]

1. The New York Times article is very damning. Here's the link:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/03/international/middleeast/03tube.html?oref=login&hp

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[clydefrand]

2. Handshake from Bob Walsh is the touch of luck

One, 56-year-old Bob Walsh, wished Kerry good luck as he shook the candidate's hand, noting he had done the same with John Kennedy during his successful 1960 White House campaign.


"I hope it brings me luck, too," Kerry said. "I'll have some of it."


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