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Bush Answers Iraq War Critics in S.C.

By Don Gonyea

Published February 4, 2004 at 9:00 PM PST

This story was published more than 21 years ago.

President Bush defends the U.S.-led war in Iraq during a visit to Charleston, S.C. Bush says the invasion of Iraq was "the right thing to do" based on intelligence available at the time. The United States has not yet found any weapons of mass destruction there. Hear NPR's Don Gonyea.

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You're most likely to find NPR's Don Gonyea on the road, in some battleground state looking for voters to sit with him at the local lunch spot, the VFW or union hall, at a campaign rally, or at their kitchen tables to tell him what's on their minds. Through countless such conversations over the course of the year, he gets a ground-level view of American elections. Gonyea is NPR's National Political Correspondent, a position he has held since 2010. His reports can be heard on all NPR News programs and at NPR.org. To hear his sound-rich stories is akin to riding in the passenger seat of his rental car, traveling through Iowa or South Carolina or Michigan or wherever, right along with him.