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RogerRabbit
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 Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:43 am Post subject: Decision Iraq - B. Woodward - Wash. Post |
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The 22 questions are at
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55919-2004Oct22.html?sub=AR
| Quote: | 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.
Because the interview did not occur, it is not possible to do the side-by-side comparison of Bush's record and Kerry's answers that I had envisioned. But it seems to me that the questions themselves offer a useful framework for thinking about the role of a president who must decide whether to go to war.
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BuffaloJack
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| Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 3:14 am Post subject: |
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22 Questions?
Geez, I've only got one.
When are you goint to sign the freaking form 180, John? |
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blue9t3
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| Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 4:22 am Post subject: |
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 Hey Rabbit, congrats o'le buddy--------your an expert member!!!!!
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dusty
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| Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 1:58 am Post subject: |
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Well like BuffaloJack, I only have one question for him also. Although I don't want to be the one to ask it.
"What day would you like to set up as your visitors day?" is what I'd like to hear the clerk at Leavenworth ask Senor John F. Kerry as she welcomes him home.
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shadowy
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Location: St. Louis, MO
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| Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 2:09 am Post subject: |
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So even when he knows the questions, he's not man enough to show up and answer them.
Oh wait. That's not news. |
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