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http://www.gmooth.net/dean/deangridiron.html... I want to talk about the election, and being serious about it, it will be a political speech, and then we can get into whatever you’d like after I get done. I think John Kerry is going to be the next president of the United States, and I’m going to tell you why. It has to do with two things. If you’re the president and you cannot manage two things, you have an enormous problem. One is foreign policy, and the other is the economy. So let me just briefly look at the record.
Now many of you correctly chronicled that our candidacy was helped enormously by my opposition to the Iraq war. But I think that most people missed the story about why that was. I think most people have not yet written the story about why that’s going to be a big election issue in the fall. I supported George Bush’s father when he went into the Iraq the first time. I supported President Clinton when he went into Kosovo, I supported President Clinton when he went into Bosnia, and I supported this President Bush when he went into Afghanistan, for a variety of reasons.
However, this time I chose not to support the president when he went into Iraq for the following reasons.
He made the case to the American people that Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden were somehow connected, and that somehow, Al Qaeda had something to do with Saddam and that Saddam had something to do with 9/11. Since this is a group of media people, I’ll share an interesting fact with you, which I read, I think a story in the New York Times or Washington Post about a media group in Washington which had looked at how many people in America believed that Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda had a connection, that Saddam actually had something to do with 9/11 - which of course is not true, which the president has now admitted that there’s no evidence, and the Secretary of State said there was no evidence for that. Eighty percent of people who looked at Fox News believed that Saddam had something to do with 9/11. Fifty percent of CNN viewers believed that Saddam had something to do with 9/11. And 30% of NPR listeners believed that Saddam had something to do with 9/11...
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