Abuse Scandal Overshadows Bush Campaign Tour

NPR | By Don Gonyea

Published May 8, 2004 at 12:00 AM EDT

As President Bush campaigns in the Midwest, he highlights an improved economy but finds he can't ignore the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal. Hear NPR's Don Gonyea and Brian Bull of Wisconsin Public Radio.

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