On the recordOctober 6, 2004
The president shifted the focus from the real enemy, al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden, to an enemy that they aggrandized and fictionalized.
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Kerry criticizes the president for misdirecting attention from al Qaeda to Iraq.
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