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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (464922)	9/25/2003 12:32:56 PM
From: JakeStraw	Respond to of 769670

Apparently only utterances from the candidate himself can be taken at face value. Of course, when it's the senator himself speaking, the sentiments can be awfully hard to decipher. Last Tuesday, during the Democratic debate in Baltimore, Kerry was asked about his vote to authorize the use of force (or "to threaten the use of force," as Kerry has tried to characterize it) against Iraq. Replied the candidate: "If we hadn't voted the way we voted, we would not have been able to have a chance of going to the United Nations and stopping the president, in effect, who already had the votes and who was obviously asking serious questions about whether or not the Congress was going to be there to enforce the effort to create a threat." boston.com

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (464922)	9/25/2003 12:33:26 PM
From: Bill	Respond to of 769670

Ken, just so I understand, could you find and post the exact text of what the senate voted on? Thanks.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (464922)	9/25/2003 12:36:22 PM
From: JakeStraw	Respond to of 769670

"Debating at Morgan State in Baltimore, Kerry tried to blame his vote for the war on a character flaw in President Bush. Either Bush misled the country into war, Kerry argued, or he allowed himself to be dragged into it by uncritically accepting bad advice. "The reason I can't tell you to a certainty whether the president misled us is because I don't have any clue what he really knew about it, or whether he was just reading what was put in front of him," said Kerry. ". . . And there are serious suspicions about the level to which this president really was involved in asking the questions that he should have." The sweet irony: It is precisely because Bush rejected bad advice that Kerry's in this jam." townhall.com