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Just wondering how many of you saw the interview. And I have a few thoughts on the interview myself, actually. I thought it MOSTLY went well, except for the one section of the interview that SHOULD have been a cakewalk. I'm not sure if it was due to Kerry trying to play both sides or CBS being "creative" with the editing process. But I don't think CBS is to blame on this issue.
Kerry's main line is that give the information that he was given by the President and his administration, voting for the War in Iraq was the right thing to do. Now, personally I disagree, but hey, I'm not running for President. The thing is, MOST AMERICANS agree with that statement. At the time, support for Iraq was pretty strong within the country.
Kerry's problem is that he won't come out and say, "Now that we know the truth, we should not have gone to Iraq." He insists that what we did was poorly planned without commenting on what he would have done instead. It's weak. He needs to take a stand, one way or the other, and he needs to do it consistantly. Personally, I think he's missing a golden oppertunity here to turn this question around into a brutal dig on Bush. Instead of bickering over semantics with every journalist who brings the issue up, he should just be replying with something like this:
“Yes, I did vote to go to war in Iraq. Like the rest of the American people, I was being told on a daily basis that Iraq was a menace to America and perhaps the entire free world. I was being warned about chemical, biological, even nuclear weapons being constructed to further the vile cause of terrorism. I was told that Saddam Hussein was working with al Queda and Osama bin Laden. I was told all of these things by the President of the Unites States, a man who had unfettered access to the best intelligence in the world. So yes, I voted to go to war in Iraq. But if I made one mistake that day, it was trusting George W. Bush with the safety of our nation.”
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