Senator, your repetition bores me. Don't you have anything else to say about Iraq besides holding that meeting?
"When I talked about the $87 billion, I made a mistake in how I talk about the war."
No, you made a mistake in how you voted on the war. Big difference.
"This president hasn't even held the kind of statesmenlike summits that pull people together."
There you go again with the summits. How jejune.
"... to save for Halliburton the spoils of war ..."
That's a smear, senator. Halliburton is doing exactly the same kind of work in Iraq that it did for the Clinton administration in Bosnia.
"The United Nations, Kofi Annan, offered help after Baghdad fell."
You obviously haven't been paying attention. The United Nations fled Iraq after its headquarters was bombed last August. Sergio de Mello was killed in the blast. You might have heard of him. Good man.
"I believe that Ronald Reagan ... did that more effectively."
Don't invoke Reagan when you opposed his arms buildup that won the Cold War.
"You don't help yourself when you turn away from the global-warming treaty."
In the 1990s the Senate voted 95 to 0 not to adopt the Kyoto Treaty in its present form. Your party's platform doesn't even mention the treaty -- at least I didn't see it in there on my first reading.
"I've never wavered in my life."
Senator, you've wavered on the war, on NAFTA, on No Child Left Behind, on the Patriot Act. There's hardly anything in this campaign that you haven't wavered on. See you in Cleveland.