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America's enemies will be doing everything they can to cause George Bush's defeat, writes Max Boot. The eyes of the political world were on New York this week as George Bush delivered his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention. But, with foreign policy occupying centre stage in a US presidential election for the first time since 1972, the outcome of the election may hinge less on what the President did in New York than on what America's enemies do in Kabul and Baghdad. Bush is running as the man who liberated Afghanistan and Iraq. But despite initial US military...

<p>April 27, 2004 -- THE conventional wisdom is that the presidential election will be close. It's a 50-50 country, so the CW goes, just as it was in the year 2000.</p> <p>Kerry is a terrible, terrible, terrible candidate.</p> <p>It's not so much the policies he proposes, although they don't add up to all that much. The problem is Kerry himself. He no sooner opens his mouth than he sticks first one foot and then the other right in there.</p>