Battling Kerry vows to restore 'trust and credibility'

Democrat presidential candidate Senator John Kerry challenged US president George Bush’s Iraq policy in blunt, biting terms today, in the climactic speech of the Democratic National Convention, pledging to be a commander in chief “who will never mislead us into war”.

“Saying there are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq doesn’t make it so,” said the four-term Massachusetts senator, a decorated Vietnam War veteran battling an incumbent president in the age of terrorism.