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Bush and Kerry sharpen their fight over IraqBy John Whitesides
Washington - Democrat John Kerry on Tuesday called the Iraq war the "most catastrophic" of American President George Bush's many wrong choices, but Bush accused Kerry of stealing lines from his old rival Howard Dean.
As the American military death toll in Iraq passed 1 000, Vice-president Dick Cheney warned Americans that Kerry's election to the White House would raise the danger of another "devastating" attack on the United States and could send the country back to a "pre-9/11 mindset".
Kerry, sharpening his attacks on Bush after a week of being pummeled at the Republican convention, said the president made the wrong choice in going to war in Iraq and the resulting costs were depleting the budget of money needed for health care and other domestic needs.
'The most catastrophic choice is the mess that he has made in Iraq'
"Of all the wrong choices that President Bush has made, the most catastrophic choice is the mess that he has made in Iraq," the Massachusetts senator said at a town hall meeting in Greensboro, North Carolina.
"This was his choice. He chose the date of the start of this war. He chose the moment and he chose for America to go it alone - and today all of America is paying the price," he said.
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