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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry

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To: ChinuSFO who started this subject3/26/2004 1:23:28 PM
From: Karen LawrenceRead Replies (2) of 81568
 
Bush under fire for 'tasteless' joke
5.52PM, Fri Mar 26 2004

US president George W Bush has come under fire from his election challenger John Kerry for joking about the fruitless search for Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction.

At a black-tie dinner for journalists, Mr Bush showed what he called a "White House Election-Year Album" slide show, poking fun at himself and other members of his administration.

One photograph in the slide show pictured Mr Bush leaning over to look under a piece of furniture in the Oval Office.

"Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be here somewhere," he told the gathering of 1,500 members of the media in Washington.

He showed another picture, of him peering into a corner of the room: "No - no weapons over there," he said.

And as another picture of him leaning over appeared, he said: "Maybe under here?"

The audience - guests at the 60th annual dinner of the Radio and Television Correspondents' Association - broke into laughter and applause at the well-delivered jokes.

But Massachusetts senator Kerry, who will challenge Mr Bush for the White House in November, said that the president had shown a "stunningly cavalier" attitude to the issues of the war and the search for weapons.

"If George Bush thinks his deceptive rationale for going to war is a laughing matter, then he's even more out of touch than we thought," the Kerry campaign said in a written statement.

"Unfortunately for the president, this is not a joke."
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