WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 (UPI) -- Democratic presidential candidates do not agree on the war in Iraq and tax cuts, a newspaper reported Tuesday.
But the Washington Post reported the candidates unanimously denounced the effort in California to recall Gov. Gray Davis as a partisan effort by Republicans.
Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman, D-Conn., who said he is the only Democratic candidate who supported both wars against Iraq, sharply challenged Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., accusing his rival of ambivalence about whether Bush should go to war.
Kerry defended his vote for the resolution, saying he voted to give Bush the threat to use force "to hold Saddam Hussein accountable," but that Bush "didn't understand how to do that properly."
Former Vermont governor Howard Dean defended his opposition to the war, which Lieberman has said threatens to consign Democrats to certain defeat in 2004 if Dean is the party's nominee.
Monday's debate was the first of five presidential candidate forums to be held this week.
