Bush Shifts Campaign Focus to Iraq

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MILWAUKEE (AP) - President Bush is shifting his message from the economy to Iraq in a state he lost by less than 6,000 votes, a switch caused by nagging questions over whether the president was justified in taking the country to war.

The president starts his second bus tour of Wisconsin in two months in staunchly Republican Milwaukee suburbs, where he bested Vice President Al Gore by a margin of better than 2-to-1 four years ago. Bush's 133,000 votes in Waukesha County represented more than 10 percent of his total in Wisconsin.

Riding across the other side of the state two months ago, Bush highlighted his tax cuts as a key to improving the economy, lowering unemployment and creating new jobs.

Now the White House is grappling with a report from a Republican-led Senate committee that harshly criticizes unsubstantiated U.S. intelligence on weapons of mass destruction that have not been found. The faulty intelligence laid the groundwork for sending 140,000 U.S. troops to Iraq.

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