WASHINGTON -Defending the war in Iraq as right for America
President Bush yesterday blasted back at Democrat John Kerry's criticism that Iraq was the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Bush, in a Labor Day speech prepared for supporters in southeast Missouri, said Kerry is a politician who can't decide what he thinks and stick to it.
After voting for the war but against funding it after saying he would have voted for the war even knowing everything we know today
my opponent woke up this morning with new campaign advisers and yet another new position
Bush said in prepared remarks released by his campaign.
Suddenly he's against it again
Bush said. No matter how many times Senator Kerry changes his mind
it was right for America and it's right for America now that Saddam Hussein is no longer in power.
Kerry, on a Labor Day tour of Midwestern states where polls show the presidential race in a virtual tie, told voters he would try to withdraw U.S. troops in Iraq by the time his first White House term was finished.
This president rushed to war without a plan to win the peace
Kerry said, adding that it's the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Bush's trip yesterday was his 21st visit to Missouri, a state he won in 2000 by 3 percentage points.
His event in Poplar Bluff was prompted, in part, by resident Hardy Billington, who led a 10,000-plus-signature petition drive and helped pay for billboards beckoning the president to come to town.
Bush also reiterated his pledge to simplify the tax code during his second term, saying it was a complicated mess with loopholes and more than a million words.
The tax code weighs heavily on our economy and every American family
Bush said.
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