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What exactly would Mr. Kerry have done??
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| tecnolover |
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Decision Iraq
Would Kerry Have Done Things Differently?
By Bob Woodward
Sunday, October 24, 2004; Page B04
The role of commander in chief is clearly one of the president's most important jobs. But a presidential campaign provides voters little opportunity to evaluate how a candidate would handle that role, particularly if the candidate isn't an incumbent.
At the end of last year, during 3 1/2 hours of interviews over two days, I asked President Bush hundreds of detailed questions about his actions and decisions during the 16-month run-up to the war in Iraq. His answers were published in my book "Plan of Attack." Beginning on June 16, I had discussions and meetings with Sen. John Kerry's senior foreign policy, communications and political advisers about interviewing the senator to find out how he might have acted on Iraq -- to ask him what he would have done at certain key points. Senior Kerry advisers initially seemed positive about such an interview. One aide told me, "The short answer is yes, it's going to happen."
In August, I was talking with Kerry's scheduler about possible dates. On Sept. 1, Kerry began his intense criticism of Bush's decisions in the Iraq war, saying "I would've done almost everything differently." A few days later, I provided the Kerry campaign with a list of 22 possible questions based entirely on Bush's actions leading up to the war and how Kerry might have responded in the same situations. The senator and his campaign have since decided not to do the interview, though his advisers say Kerry would have strong and compelling answers.
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Unbelievable! But this doesn't suprise me one bit. Mr. Kerry has been talking through his whole campaign about how badly Bush has run the war and how he could do so much better. Then when challenged with specific questions as to what he would have done in each situation of the war, himself or his campaign commitee do not respond.
I hope that all of you who look very closely at this guy and all the uncertainty he has left you the american voter with concerning everything from his record in veitnam and his bogus purple hearts to his latest fiascal about the missing explosives which he still is the last to realize he's been duped on even after more than half the country already know the whole story, and please make the right decision tommorow.
Vote: Bush/Cheney
God bless America! |
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| hardcore trancer |
| quote: | Originally posted by tecnolover
Vote: Bush/Cheney
God bless America! |
:rolleyes:
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| Dmatrox |
| and bush thought the memo "bin ladin to attack within the USA" was a joke from the CIA. |
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| ierxium |
| quote: | Originally posted by tecnolover
Unbelievable! But this doesn't suprise me one bit. Mr. Kerry has been talking through his whole campaign about how badly Bush has run the war and how he could do so much better. Then when challenged with specific questions as to what he would have done in each situation of the war, himself or his campaign commitee do not respond.
I hope that all of you who look very closely at this guy and all the uncertainty he has left you the american voter with concerning everything from his record in veitnam and his bogus purple hearts to his latest fiascal about the missing explosives which he still is the last to realize he's been duped on even after more than half the country already know the whole story, and please make the right decision tommorow.
Vote: Bush/Cheney
God bless America! |
Love your sense of humor.
I thought it wasn't allowed to tell other people what to do. Oh well. |
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| speedracer_mec |
VOTE Kerry: Handling Iraq from All Positions
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| Q5echo |
| quote: | Originally posted by tecnolover
Vote: Bush/Cheney
God bless America! |
word to your mom;) |
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| Shakka |
| Written by Bob Woodward, no less. |
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| speedracer_mec |
"move the supreme court to paris" |
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| Spacey Orange |
its just pure speculatuion and of no importance.
shoulda-woulda-coulda who cares.:rolleyes: |
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| Dunya |
| quote: | Originally posted by speedracer_mec
"move the supreme court to paris" |
Paris is a beautiful city.:o |
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| Scorchio |
| quote: | Originally posted by speedracer_mec
"move the supreme court to paris" |
I'm confused with your posts
Are you against or for Kerry.
Never mind Bush was already elected |
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| MisterOpus1 |
I read that article when it came out, and I have to say that regardless of whoever was in the position to answer those questions by Woodward, it would have been a major trap. I consider Woodward to be a firm, reliable source, but these 22 questions really revealed a trap for the following reasons:
*How many ing questions within questions is Woodward going to ask here? You want to ask 22 questions, then ing ask 22 questions Bob! Take question 1, for example:
| quote: | | If a President Kerry wanted to look at war plans pertaining to a particular country or threat, how would he go about it? Who would be included? What would the general war-planning process be in a Kerry administration? Was it reasonable to look at Iraq at that time? |
Now suppose Kerry answered this entire question just in general terms, because we pretty much know what Woodward was getting at - would you have looked at Iraq as quickly as Bush did post-911 and how would you have addressed that? Well Kerry could and likely have answered that, yes, he would have examined the possibility of Saddam being the culprit in due time, just as the President did, and that the President was not wrong in doing so. The details of examination of possible culprits may have been a matter of slight difference, but that's a bit nit picky. Well, he answers this in general terms, great, fine. What do you want to bet that at least someone, anyone from the Right would have come out and said that "he's avoiding answering directly - more 'flip-flopping'"? I'll bet the house on that one.
*Did anyone notice that the timing of Woodward's questions seemed a bit strange? By that I mean it was right before the Republican Convention, which would have been a tremendous amount of extra nit-picky fodder for the Republicans to spin and mislead any which way they chose. Furthermore, a great many of Woodward's questions (and ing questions within questions) were answered, at least in general, during the debates. Surely Woodward noticed this.
*Furthermore, Kerry and Edwards have, in fact, answered a great many of Woodward's questions already throughout their campaign speeches, interviews, and even during the Democratic primary debates. Now granted, Bob has asked some pointed questions, and some pointed answers would have been interesting to note and compare specifically, but for the most part I think Bob knew damn well where Kerry stood in large part on most of those questions. If he truly did not then I think he was simply not paying much attention to Kerry.
So overall I think Kerry and Edwards avoided those questions for both political reasons as well as the desire to stay away from useless repetition. I think if Bob truly wanted the answers to his questions, it would have been best served for him to give these questions very early on in the campaign, rather than just 2 months away from Nov. 2nd, and 1 month away from the beginning of the debates. I like Bob, and I think he means well, but I also think he should have known better in this instance. |
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