As sure as the sun will come up tomorrow, the Preznit will say the following words in Friday's debate:
"The world is better off with Saddam Hussein in a jail cell."
It's an obvious attempt to re-write history, implying that removing Saddam Hussein was the motivation for the invasion of Iraq. And perhaps that is true. But the point for Senator Kerry to drive home is this:
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"Every day, the evidence becomes more clear. The President does not trust the American people. He did not trust you enough to tell you the truth about Iraq's non-existent WMD's. He did not trust you enough to tell you the truth about Iraq's non-existent nuclear weapons program. He did not trust you enough to tell you the truth about the non-existent links between 9/11 and Iraq. Instead, he mislead you...and he mislead this county into a war that has cost us billions of dollars, thousands of American lives lost or shattered, and which has stripped America of one of its most important assets....the ability to gather our allies and confront evil with a united voice.
If the President trusted us, he would have stood before the American people and said: 'Saddam Hussein belongs in a jail cell, and I want to put him there'. And in the tradition of a great and free people, we could have had a national dialogue about whether that was a good idea. That's how democracy works. It depends on the people trusting their leaders, and more importantly, it depends on the leaders trusting the people. President Bush betrayed that trust when he concealed the facts about Iraq from the American people.
And it's more than a little sad that the President talks about bringing to democracy to Iraq, when he is so obviously afraid of democracy here at home."