Yahoo! News - Kerry, Bush Trade Charges in New Mexico
At separate stops in the crucial swing state, the White House rivals renewed their campaign-trail assaults on each other's leadership and judgment ahead of Wednesday's final debate.

"Just this weekend, we saw new evidence that Senator Kerry fundamentally misunderstands the war on terror," Bush told supporters in Hobbs, New Mexico, citing a New York Times Magazine interview with the Massachusetts senator.

Kerry was quoted as saying "we have to get back to the place where we were, where terrorists are not the focus of our lives, but they're a nuisance."

"Our goal is not to reduce terror to some acceptable level of nuisance," Bush said. "Our goal is to defeat terror by staying on the offensive, destroying terrorist networks and spreading freedom and liberty around the world."

Everybody listen to those words very carefully, and then get your kid ready for Bush's crusade. He intends to spread freedom and liberty to the world at the end of a gun, whether or not they have asked to be "liberated" by us. This statement gave me chills, and when I thought of the ethnic cleansing going on in Sudan, it made me sick. People that most need our help will be ignored so George can screw around in the Middle East. Scary stuff.