- WASHINGTON -- President George
W Bush shrugged off one of the worst days of his re-election campaign by
poking fun at himself, his staff and, more controversially, the failure
to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
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- Hours after he was accused by a former aide of failing
America in the countdown to the September 11 attacks, Mr Bush put on a
self-mocking slide show at a dinner in Washington on Wednesday.
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- To his audience's amusement, a slide showed an image
of the President looking under furniture in a fruitless search for something.
"Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be somewhere,"
said Mr Bush. "Nope, no weapons over there. Maybe under here?"
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- Mr Bush also poked fun at Senator John Kerry, his Democratic
challenger, over his indecisiveness. A slide showed Mr Bush in a strange
contortionist pose in front of Condoleeza Rice, his national security adviser.
He was trying to explain to her Mr Kerry's foreign policy.
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