Kerry Says Bush Manipulates Fear of Terror Attack

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Kerry Says Bush Manipulates Fear of Terror Attack
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By John Whitesides, Political Correspondent

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Democratic White House challenger John Kerry (news - web sites) accused President Bush (news - web sites) on Thursday of manipulating fears about security and terror for political gain and said he would launch a new ad blitz to introduce himself to voters.

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"Home base for George Bush, as we saw to the nth degree in the press conference, is terror. Ask him a question, he's going to terror," Kerry said, referring to Bush's prime-time news conference on Tuesday.

"Everything he did in Iraq (news - web sites) he's going to try to persuade people has to do with terror even though everybody here knows it had nothing whatsoever to do with al Qaeda and everything to do with an agenda that they had preset," he told the breakfast crowd at New York's "21" restaurant.

"Part of my task obviously is to convince America -- we don't have to beat him on it -- but we have to convince America of my ability to be able to manage that as effectively or more effectively if possible, and I think we can," the Massachusetts senator said.

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