LEE'S SUMMIT, Missouri, Sept 7 (AFP) - President George W. Bush, on a campaign swing here, charged his democratic rival John Kerry was indecisive in his stand on the Iraq war.
"My opponent has now voted for the war and against supplying our troops," Bush said of two votes by Kerry, a senator from Massachusetts.
"When he got on the Democratic primary he declared himself the antiwar candidate. More recently he switched again, saying he would have voted for the war, even knowing everything we know today," the Republican Bush said.
"He woke up yesterday morning with yet another new position. And this one is not even his own. It is the one of is one-time rival Howard Dean. He even used the same words Howard Dean did, back when he supposedly disagreed with him," Bush charged.
"No matter how many times Senator Kerry flip-flops we were right to make America safer by removing Saddam Hussein from power," Bush underscored.
With violence on the upswing in Iraq, Bush said "We'll help them get to elections, we'll get them on the path to stability and democracy as quickly as possible and then our troops will return home with the honors they have earned."
Kerry said Monday the war in Iraq was the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time.