Bush, Kerry snipe as campaign gets nastier

0 Comments | USA TODAY, November, 2006 | by David Jackson

WASHINGTON -- A bitter dispute about Iraq that dominated the 2004 campaign between President Bush and Sen. John Kerry resurfaced Tuesday as they traded barbs a week before voters decide control of Congress. Kerry told a college crowd Monday: "You know education, if you make the most of it, and you study hard, and you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well.

If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq." Bush said Kerry's comments were "insulting" and "shameful" to U.S. troops. "The members of the United States military are plenty smart, and they are plenty brave, and the senator from Massachusetts owes them an apology," the president said Tuesday at a rally in Georgia. Kerry, a decorated Vietnam War veteran, said his comments at Pasadena City College in...