[techweenie]

Bush did not come across as a war-monger as much as incompetent and confused.

There was plenty more that could have been said, but it might have strained the attention span of the typical viewer.

Where Kerry could have gone for the jugular, he pulled his punches. For instance, he could have laid it out simply:

When Bush was hammering him about voting for the
war but against the $87b, why did he decline to say, "I voted for it
because I trusted you, which turned out to be a mistake, and I voted
against the $87b because the plan on how to spend it was a mess."

He wouldn't have even had to call W a liar to do that.