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The editorial “Taking the war to the enemy” suggests that the voters are going to have to examine the nuances of the speeches of the candidates and their surrogates on how they propose to protect us from terrorism.

Iraq is an example of how President Bush would do it.

Many wise military, defense and foreign policy experts of both parties believe that the invasion of Iraq was a diversion from efforts against terrorism that increases the risk of attacks and that the failure to plan for the occupation has been a disaster–the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time with the occupation poorly executed. John Kerry agrees with them.

Who is right, Bush or Kerry? Would Kerry have done better?