Interesting Info: Who Won The Debate

You can count me in agreement with the 37 percent of Americans who told the CNN/Gallup poll that Bush got the better of John Kerry.

More Kerry: “Thirty-five to 40 countries in the world had a greater capability of making weapons at the moment the president invaded than Saddam Hussein.”

But every argument Kerry hurled against Bush also worked against Kerry.

Thursday night, Kerry also likened going into Iraq in response to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks with “Franklin Roosevelt invading Mexico in response to Pearl Harbor.

I reread Kerry’s very long and also ponderous remarks before he voted in favor of the October 2002 resolution authorizing force in Iraq.

But that doesn’t mean it wasn’t a mistake of judgment to go there and take the focus off Osama bin Laden.”

During the debate, Kerry observed that the first President Bush did not push U.S. troops beyond Basra.

What’s more, Bush had warned the United Nations that it would be irrelevant if it failed to enforce its resolutions even as Kerry says he believed Bush would only go to war as a “last resort.”

The resolution said, “The president is authorized to use the Armed Forces of the United States as he determines to be necessary and appropriate” to defend U.S. interests and enforce the U.N. Security Council resolutions that Hussein was flouting.

Or that it only authorized U.S. force under certain conditions, such as moving against Iraq with the agreement of the United Nations.

It was fair game for critics to say Democratic candidate Al Gore’s demeanor defined his performance in the 2000 presidential debates.