Kerry hammers the president on the missing weapons, while Bush asks for help from an unlikely source, Democrats.

Mr. President, for the sake of our brave men and women in uniform, for the sake of those troops who are in danger, because of your wrong decisions, you owe America real answers about what happened, not just political attacks.

Time and again, this president has made the wrong decisions. Time and again, he has chosen the wrong path.

I think when he was -- when George Bush was on the couch thinking in Texas, this guy was working on terrorism in the BCCI scandal, for example.

Mr. President, what else are you being silent about? What else are you keeping from the American people?

We will fight tooth and nail to make sure that this time, every vote is counted, and every vote counts.

Terrorists could be helping themselves to what has been called, I quote -- and this is by the people who reported them missing -- 'the greatest explosives bonanza in history.'

The president kept responding, It is hard work. It is hard work. It is hard work. Well, my fellow Americans, I am ready, and I would be privileged, and I am impatient to relieve this president of that hard work.

This isn't about being a Democrat or a Republican. It is about bringing Democrats and Republicans together for a higher purpose.

After being warned about the danger of major stockpiles of explosives in Iraq, this president failed to guard those stockpiles where nearly 380 tons of highly explosive weapons were kept.

Secretary Rumsfeld, we know, cavalierly dismissed the danger of looting, and now we know the impact.