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AFFLECK: President Bush has not come out and said, "I'm responsible for this." He hasn't taken a leadership role to say, "Yes, the buck stops here. Yes, I'm the president. I told you that we were going into Iraq because they were developing and had weapons of mass destruction, which they intended to use. I'm sorry, America. I made an honest mistake. That's what I believed and I acted as such."
SHARPTON: And heads will roll for giving me wrong information. We haven't even seen that. Who has paid for the misinformation that he was given?
KING: Would that have worked, Tucker? Kennedy took full responsibility, John Kennedy, your uncle, for the Bay of Pigs.
CARLSON: Yes, it might have. I mean I think the war probably was a mistake. That's my view and I'm conservative and I guess it would be useful if the president would say that. I do think he ought to acknowledge the fact that WMD had not been found is a big deal.
However, that doesn't still answer the question. Sorry to sound like a broken record. What do we do next? It's a consistent thing, it seems to me, and an honorable thing to say if the war was a mistake let's pull our troops out now. Who wants to be the last man to die for the wrong reason, as John Kerry said? But nobody is saying that because they're afraid to.
AFFLECK: John Kerry is saying that he wants to incorporate NATO, that he wants to take the targets off the backs of our soldiers, that he wants to more fully fund and finance what they're doing so the soldiers aren't paying for their own body armor. He does want to reduce troop presence in Iraq but with an international community of others so that the world shares the burden of democratizing Iraq.
CARLSON: Bush is saying the exact same thing.
AFFLECK: No.
KENNEDY: No.
CARLSON: He is saying it. Listen to his speeches.
SHARPTON: It started with a unilateral view. Now we're talking about world involvement. Now we're talking about engaging the world. Bush was the one that sat down, had a meeting with Tony Blair and acted like that was a world conference.
AFFLECK: If Bush is saying that why hasn't he done it? Bush is president now and he's alienated our allies.
CARLSON: I'll tell because Western Europe doesn't actually have hundreds of thousands of extra troops. They don't actually have big standing armies and it's not so easy to do that.
AFFLECK: Well, there are a lot of U.N. peacekeepers and they do have armies in Western Europe they could send in there.
CARLSON: They're tiny little armies.
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