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Finally: Bush Blasts Kerry's 'Wild Charges'

After standing by for a couple of days and letting Sen. John Kerry smear him with the latest anti-Bush propaganda of Democrat allies the New York Times and "60 Minutes," President Bush today finally fought back.

"Now the senator is making wild charges about missing explosives when his top foreign policy adviser admits, quote, 'We do not know the facts,'" the president said in Lititz, Pa.

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"Think about that. The senator's denigrating the action of our troops and commanders in the field without knowing the facts. Unfortunately, that's part of a pattern of saying almost anything to get elected."

Bush noted that "a political candidate who jumps to conclusions without knowing the facts is not a person you want as commander in chief."

The president told thousands of supporters in Lancaster: "Senator Kerry this week seemed shocked to learn that Iraq was a dangerous place, full of dangerous weapons. ... But after all, that's why we're there.

"If Senator Kerry had his way ... Saddam Hussein would still be in power. He would control all those weapons and explosives and could have shared them with our terrorist enemies."

Read more on this subject in related Hot Topics:
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