October 02. 2006 2:05PM
Kerry says new allegations have reshaped campaign debate
By MIKE GLOVER
AP Political Writer
New allegations about President Bush's prosecution of the war in Iraq have reshaped the campaign in this year's midterm election, Sen. John Kerry said Monday.
"If they want to have a debate on security, I've always said let's have the debate," said Kerry, D-Mass. "With the new facts we now have available, I think Americans are going to be realizing that this is the Katrina of foreign policy."
Kerry said a new intelligence assessment that offers a more pessimistic view of the war than given by Bush, coupled with a new book by journalist Bob Woodward that says Bush misled the country about the war, gives Democrats fodder to reshape this fall's campaign.
"Americans ought to be outraged about what's happened here," said Kerry, who was in Iowa to campaign for Michael Mauro, the Democratic candidate for secretary of state.
He said the fallout from the disclosure will continue into 2008.
"I think as you go into '08, all these people who have been jumping up and down about this policy and ignoring the truth have misled America, and they have misled us into the most costly, disgraceful and unnecessary use of American might," said Kerry, the Democratic presidential nominee in 2004.
Woodward's book says Bush and other top administration officials have pushed an ideological agenda against the advice of military leaders.
"It is disgraceful what this administration has done to mislead America and denigrate legitimate dissent," Kerry said. "To me it one of the most serious, catastrophic moments of irresponsibility in the conduct of American security policy that I've ever seen."
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