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Sep. 10--JOHNSTOWN, Pa. -- President Bush and Democratic rival John Kerry side-stepped controversy over each other's Vietnam-era service on Thursday as they brought the emotional turmoil of the war on terrorism to battleground states that are key to their election hopes.
Campaigning in Iowa, where Vice President Dick Cheney warned this week that voting for Kerry would make the nation vulnerable to another terrorist attack, Kerry sharply rebuked the president for building a re-election campaign upon fear.
"George Bush refused to contradict that comment or walk away from it yesterday," Kerry said in an interview with The Associated Press in Des Moines. "George Bush and Dick Cheney are engaging in irresponsible and outrageous behavior in trying to play the politics of fear."
"Put Dick Cheney and me back in office ... " said Bush, campaigning across Pennsylvania and greeting thousands awaiting him inside the War Memorial arena in Johnstown. " ...This country will be safer, stronger and better for every American."
"We're staying on the offensive," said Bush, framing the war in Iraq as the…
Source: HighBeam Research, Kerry accuses Bush of scare tactics; Bush assails Kerry on taxes.