Bush under fire over WMD jokes

US President George W Bush has come under fire from his election challenger John Kerry for tasteless joking about the fruitless search for Iraq’s alleged weapons of mass destruction.

At a black-tie dinner for journalists, Mr Bush showed what he called a "White House election-year album" slide show, poking fun at himself and other members of his administration.

One photograph pictured Mr Bush leaning over to look under a piece of furniture in the Oval Office.