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Having a good comeback or two up your sleeve, that's not just good practice, that's it's good raw politics.

Iraq a diversion from the war on terror.

Senator Kerry blasts President Bush, calling Iraq a diversion from the war on terror.

I have news for President Bush. Just because you can't do something doesn't mean it can't be done.

This president took his eye off the real war on terror, which is against al Qaeda, against Osama bin Laden, against terrorists in 60 countries, and he invaded a nation where there weren't any terrorists, but there are today.

The president's misjudgment, miscalculation, and mismanagement of the war in Iraq all make the war on terror harder to win.

We need to change the course to protect our troops and to win.

We have an administration in disarray, the secretary of defense saying one thing and being corrected, the president saying one thing and being contradicted by the prime minister.

George Bush keeps telling us things are getting better in Iraq. The facts tell a different story.

The prime minister and the president are here obviously to put their best face on the policy.

If George Bush were to be reelected, given the way he has gone about this war, and given his avoidance of responsibility in North Korea and Iran and other places, it is possible.

George Bush's plan for social security reform is very bad, a rip-off in fact. Mine, however, is very good.

Yesterday I was at Orlando, right next to Fantasyland. And the difference between George Bush and me is, I drove by it, he lives in it.

Putting the intelligence czar in the White House at the right hand of the president is a terrible idea.

It seems to me the biggest challenge we face, however, stems from our unique position, unique to us, if it is not unique in history, as the world's only hyper-power.

Elections are great times to hold debates, but terrible times for making binding decisions.

But intelligence should not be part of the political life of the White House.