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The President has No Idea.

Bob Herbert of the New York Times writes on Friday that Bush has no clue as to what’s really going on:

At the moment there is no evidence the president understands anything about the war. He led the nation into it with false pretenses. He never mobilized sufficient numbers of troops. He seemed to believe the war was over in May 2003. And he seems not to know how to proceed now.

The tragic lesson of Vietnam is staring the president in the face. But he’ll have to become better acquainted with the real world before he can even begin to learn from it.

Bush: Iraq is better off than America…

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The last couple of days have been a turning point for the Kerry campaign. After the President used the puppet Leader of the New Iraq to further his lies on what is really happening on the ground, Kerry has issued a quick response to everything the President has said this week.

The following ad has a portion of the press conference from Thursday in the White House Rose Garden. You remember, the one where the president says:

“I saw a poll that said the right-track/wrong-track is better in Iraq than here in America.”

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    • This is what the Election is about:

    The invasion of Iraq was a profound diversion from the battle against our greatest enemy ­ Al Qaeda — which killed more than three thousand people on 9/11 and which still plots our destruction today. And there’s just no question about it: the President’s misjudgment, miscalculation and mismanagement of the war in Iraq all make the war on terror harder to win. Iraq is now what it was not before the war ­ a haven for terrorists. George Bush made Saddam Hussein the priority. I would have made Osama bin Laden the priority. As president, I will finish the job in Iraq and refocus our energies on the real war on terror.

    I will wage this war relentlessly with a single-minded determination: to capture or kill the terrorists, crush their movement and free the world from fear. To destroy our enemy, we have to know our enemy. We have to understand that we are facing a radical fundamentalist movement with global reach and a very specific plan. They are not just out to kill us for the sake of killing us. They want to provoke a conflict that will radicalize the people of the Muslim world, turning them against the United States and the West. And they hope to transform that anger into a force that will topple the region’s governments and pave the way for a new empire, an oppressive, fundamentalist superstate stretching across a vast area from Europe to Africa, from the Middle East to Central Asia.
    – John Kerry

    Who needs voter turnout.

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    Yesterday Secretary of War Defense Donald Rumsfield suggested that some elections are better than no elections when it comes to Iraq.

    “Let’s say you tried to have an election and you could have it in three-quarters or four-fifths of the country. But in some places you couldn’t because the violence was too great,” Rumsfield said, hours after the leaders of the United States and Iraq met in Washington.

    “Well, so be it. Nothing’s perfect in life, so you have an election that’s not quite perfect. Is it better than not having an election? You bet,” he said.

    So say in on November 2nd the people in Idaho, New Jersey and Ohio aren’t allowed to vote. Do you think the people of the United States would consider the winner of the election to be the actual leader of the election? You thought it was bad in 2000, imagine 3/4 an election in Iraq imposed by an occupying power…