president defends decision on iraq

., Democratic front-runner John Kerry said the question was not whether Bush had received an honorable discharge but whether he had performed his Guard duties in Alabama. ... The president has seen his poll numbers slide after statements made in recent weeks by David Kay, who stepped down..

religious right fails to deliver -- again

Even in the South, religious right candidates like Alabama Gov. Fob James lost. . In the morning-after spin, Randy Tate, president of the Christian Coalition, and his boss, Pat Robertson, accused mainstream Republicans of ignoring their moral concerns -- thus alienating the party's religious..

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