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Kerry: 'Colossal' Failures by Bush on Iraq

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By Mara Liasson

Published September 20, 2004 at 12:00 AM EDT

Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry accuses President Bush of "colossal failures of judgment" in Iraq. Kerry's speech at New York University came one day before Bush's scheduled address to the U.N. General Assembly in New York. NPR's Mara Liasson reports.

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Mara Liasson is a national political correspondent for NPR. Her reports can be heard regularly on NPR's award-winning newsmagazine programs Morning Edition and All Things Considered. Liasson provides extensive coverage of politics and policy from Washington, DC — focusing on the White House and Congress — and also reports on political trends beyond the Beltway.

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