Kerry: No president, through all of American history, has ever ceded, and nor would I, the right to preempt in any way necessary to protect the United States of America.
But if and when you do it, Jim, you have to do it in a way that passes the test, that passes the global test where your countrymen, your people understand fully why you're doing what you're doing and you can prove to the world that you did it for legitimate reasons.
Here we have our own secretary of state who has had to apologize to the world for the presentation he made to the United Nations.
Bush: Let me -- I'm not exactly sure what you mean, "passes the global test," you take preemptive action if you pass a global test.
My attitude is you take preemptive action in order to protect the American people, that you act in order to make this country secure.
Transcript Bush - Kerry Presidential Debate, Sept. 30, 2004.
In related news . . .
- "Meet The Graders [of John Kerry's "Global Test"], by Anne Bayefsky. National Review October 4, 2004.
- "Polish President disses Democrat President wannabe", by Arthur Chrenkoff. October 3, 2004.
- "I Didn't See This Question On Kerry's Global Test" Blog "Just One Minute" wonders "Clearly, the UN and the world community will never endorse a US effort to aid the Zionist imperialists. Would Kerry support Israel despite its inability to pass the global test?"
- Transterrestial.com has discovered the Global Test Kerry was referring to. (As one might expect, it's biased towards the French).
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