For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: Is Bush the worst president in 50 years?
Mr. Rove and Mr. Kristol were paired against Jacob Weisberg, editor in chief of the Slate Group, and British columnist Sir Simon Jenkins, of the Guardian....The most heated moments came during the debate over Mr. Bush's biggest decision - the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The president himself said in an interview this week that his "biggest regret" is that the intelligence upon which the invasion was based wrongly concluded that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Even Mr. Kristol said that Mr. Bush has done "a horrible job of explaining what he's done and what the choices were." But he and Mr. Rove both maintained that while the initial occupation was mismanaged, the surge of troops begun in 2007 has placed the U.S. on the cusp of victory in Iraq. Former Bush adviser Karl Rove was greeted with hisses as he took the podium at a formal debate on New York's Upper West Side, but he helped attract a sold-out crowd. "We've won the war," Mr. Kristol said.
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