Bush attacks 'waffling' Kerry in re-election launch

US president George Bush went on the attack today as he launched his re-election campaign, casting Democratic front-runner John Kerry as indecisive and warning that the party would raise taxes, expand the government and fail to lead on national security.

Previewing his principal re-election theme, Bush made national security the centrepiece of his revamped re-election speech, explicitly invoking the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and questioning the credentials of the Democrats who want his job.