Bush opens drive to sell Iraq war to midterm voters
09-01) 04:00 PDT Washington -- President Bush, faced with the prospect of midterm losses for congressional Republicans because of simmering public unease over the war in Iraq, began a series of speeches Thursday intended to convince voters that Iraq is the central front in the global fight against terrorism.
Democrats -- who came up on the short end of the national security debate in the 2002 and 2004 elections -- reacted quickly and harshly to Bush's speech to the American Legion convention in Salt Lake City. They said Bush was resorting to his administration's usual election-year scare tactics and charged that Iraq has made the United States less safe by diverting resources from the real war on terrorism.
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Democrats -- who came up on the short end of the national security debate in the 2002 and 2004 elections -- reacted quickly and harshly to Bush's speech to the American Legion convention in Salt Lake City. They said Bush was resorting to his administration's usual election-year scare tactics and charged that Iraq has made the United States less safe by diverting resources from the real war on terrorism.
Read the rest at the San Francisco Chronicle
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