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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (27596)	10/6/2004 10:32:48 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Respond to of 173976

Kerry Urges Bush to Admit Mistakes Wed Oct 6, 1:56 AM ET Top Stories - washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/ wp-dyn/articles/A8554-2004Oct5.html By Dan Balz and Robin Wright, Washington Post Staff Writers TIPTON, Iowa, Oct. 5 -- Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kerry, seizing on criticism of the Bush administration's Iraq (news - web sites) policy by the former U.S. governor in Baghdad, called on President Bush (news - web sites) Tuesday to acknowledge major mistakes in judgment and give Americans a full accounting of what has gone wrong in Iraq. Search news on washingtonpost.com Kerry questioned whether either Bush or Vice President Cheney is capable of acknowledging errors or correcting U.S. policy, after former U.S. administrator L. Paul Bremer said Monday that the United States needed more troops after the invasion to stabilize Iraq and stop the looting and violence that fostered the lawlessness that still plagues the country. Kerry said both men should be held accountable for misleading the United States about the war. "For weeks I've been asking the president of the United States to level with the American people and to be candid about the situation in Iraq and about what we face," Kerry said while campaigning in rural Iowa. "Maybe he's simply unwilling to face the truth or to share it with the American people, but the president's stubbornness has prevented him from seeing, each step of the way, the difficulties and the ways we best protect our troops and best accomplish this mission." Bremer's comments triggered widespread political fallout and escalated public debate over U.S. policy in Iraq. They also reflected the growing number of challenges from key government quarters about the Bush administration's original assessments of Iraq and justifications for invading. In an effort at damage control, the administration disclosed yesterday that top U.S. officials handling Iraq were split over troop strength. After two years of denying internal divisions, the administration confirmed that Bremer had pushed for additional troops. The statement acknowledging the divide, however, came not from the White House but from the Bush-Cheney campaign.