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Billionaire embarks on one-man campaign to defeat Bush

WASHINGTON — Billionaire businessman George Soros, who has donated more than $12 million to Democratic causes, launched a personal campaign on Tuesday to boot President Bush out of office.

"I want to shout from the roof tops: 'Wake up America. We must realize that we are being misled'" on the war in Iraq, Soros said as he opened a 12-city tour, which includes stops in the crucial swing states of Ohio and Florida.

His one-man crusade also includes an advertising campaign to begin Wednesday with a two-page spread in the Wall Street Journal, a Web site (georgesoros.com) devoted to unseating the president and plans to mail pamphlets to 2 million voters.

The effort will cost $2-3 million, said Soros, who has quipped in the past that he would spend all his money if it could be guaranteed that Bush would lose.