Kerry lays into Bush over ‘mission accomplished’ Iraq speech

DEMOCRATIC presidential challenger John Kerry yesterday ripped into US President George Bush for saying he had no regrets over his “Mission Accomplished” speech on Iraq.

Mr Kerry expressed outrage after Mr Bush’s statement in an interview with Fox News, in which he was asked if he would still have shown up in a flight suit for that 2003 speech aboard an aircraft carrier.

“Absolutely,” Mr Bush was quoted as saying in excerpts of the interview, which is to air this week.