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Various of Bush and Kerry shaking hands and taking their seats2. Audience member asking question3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Senator John Kerry, Democratic presidential nominee:\"The president didn't find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003e1. Various of Bush and Kerry shaking hands and taking their seats\u003cbr/\u003e2. Audience member asking question\u003cbr/\u003e3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Senator John Kerry, Democratic presidential nominee:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The president didn't find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq so he's really turned his campaign into a weapon of mass deception and the result is that you've been bombarded with advertisements suggesting that I've changed a position on this or that or the other.\"\u003cbr/\u003e4. Bush getting up to speak\u003cbr/\u003e5. Audience member listening\u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE: (English) George W. Bush, US President:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Now I can see why people think that he's changed positions quite often because he does. You know for a while he was a strong supporter of getting rid of Saddam Hussein. He saw the wisdom until the Democratic Primary came along and Howard Dean the anti-war candidate began to gain on him. He changed positions. I don't see how you can lead this country in a time of war, in a time of uncertainty if you change your mind cause of politics.\"\u003cbr/\u003e7. Bush speaking\u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE: (English) George W. Bush, US President:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We all thought there was weapons there, Robin. My opponent thought there was weapons there that's why he called him a grave threat. I wasn't happy when I found out there wasn't weapons and we've got an intelligence group together to figure out why. But Saddam Hussein was a unique threat. And the world is better off without him in power. And my opponent's plans lead me to conclude that Saddam Hussein would still be in power and the world would be more dangerous.\"\u003cbr/\u003e9. Kerry speaking to Bush\u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Senator John Kerry, Democratic presidential nominee:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The world is more dangerous today. The world is more dangerous today because the president didn't make the right judgements. Now the president wishes that I had changed my mind. He wants you to believe that. Cause he can't come here and tell you that he created new jobs for America, he's lost jobs. He can't come here and tell you that he's created health care for Americans. We got five million Americans who've lost their health care. Ninety-six thousand of them right here in Missouri. He can't come here and tell you that he's left no child behind because he didn't fund No Child Left Behind. So what does he do? He's trying to attack me. He wants you to believe that I can't be president.\"\u003cbr/\u003e11. Bush listening\u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Senator John Kerry, Democratic presidential nominee: \u003cbr/\u003e\"The goal of the sanctions was not to remove Saddam Hussein it was to remove weapons of mass destruction, and Mr. President just yesterday the Duelfer Report told you and the whole world they worked. He didn't have weapons of mass destruction, Mr. President. That was the objective. And if we'd use smart diplomacy we could have saved 200 billion dollars and an invasion of Iraq and right now Osama bin Laden might be in jail or dead. That's the war against terror.\"\u003cbr/\u003e13. Moderator Charles Gibson\u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE: (English) George W. Bush, US President: \u003cbr/\u003e\"Sometimes in this world you make unpopular decisions because you think they're right. We'll continue to reach out. Listen, there's thirty nations involved in Iraq. Some forty nations involved in Afghanistan. People love America. Sometimes they don't like the decisions made by America but I don't think you want a president who tries to become popular and does the wrong thing.\"\u003cbr/\u003e15. Audience member asking a question\u003cbr/\u003e16. Kerry speaking\u003cbr/\u003e17. SOUNDBITE: (English) Senator John Kerry, Democratic presidential nominee:\u003cbr/\u003e\"While Iran is moving towards nuclear weapons, some 37 tonnes of what they call yellow cake, the stuff they use to make enriched uranium. While they're doing that, North Korea has moved from one bomb, maybe, maybe, to four or seven bombs. For two years the president didn't even engage with North Korea, did nothing at all, while it was growing more dangerous.\"\u003cbr/\u003e18. Bush getting out of his chair\u003cbr/\u003e19. SOUNDBITE: (English) George W. Bush, US President:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Of course we've been involved with Iran. I fully understand the threat and that's why we're doing what he suggested we do. Get the Brits the Germans and the French to go make it very clear to the Iranians that if they expect to be a party to the world to give up their nuclear ambitions. We've been doing that.\"\u003cbr/\u003e20. Kerry writing\u003cbr/\u003e21. Kerry getting up to speak\u003cbr/\u003e22. SOUNDBITE: (English) Senator John Kerry, Democratic presidential nominee:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Absolutely, yes, right into the camera, yes. I am not going to raise taxes. I have a tax cut.\"\u003cbr/\u003e23. SOUNDBITE: (English) George W. Bush, US President:\u003cbr/\u003e\"He's got a record. He's been there for 20 years. You can run but you can't hide. He voted 98 times to raise taxes, these aren't make-up figures so people are going to have to look at the record.\"\u003cbr/\u003e24. Woman listening\u003cbr/\u003e25. Kerry speaking\u003cbr/\u003e26. SOUNDBITE: (English) Senator John Kerry, Democratic presidential nominee:\u003cbr/\u003e\"That's the nature of the human spirit. I think it is respecting life to reach for that cure. I think it is respecting life to do it in an ethical way. And the president's chosen a policy that makes it impossible for our scientists to do that. I want the future and I think we have to grab it.\"\u003cbr/\u003e27. Bush getting up to speak\u003cbr/\u003e28. SOUNDBITE: (English) George W. Bush, US President:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I made the decision we wouldn't spend any more money beyond the 70 lines, 22 of which are now in action, because science is important but so is ethics. So is balancing life. To destroy life to save life is one of the real ethical dilemmas that we face.\"\u003cbr/\u003e23. Various of Bush and Kerry shaking hands at the end of the debate\u003cbr/\u003e24. Various of Bush and Kerry shaking hands with audience members\u003cbr/\u003eIn a debate rematch Friday, President Bush defended his invasion of Iraq and said \"I wasn't happy when we found there weren't weapons\" though that prompted his administration to go to war against Saddam Hussein. \u003cbr/\u003eDemocratic challenger John Kerry responded that Bush had made the world more dangerous \"because the president didn't make the right judgments.\"\u003cbr/\u003eThe commander in chief insisted that Saddam posed a unique threat and the world was safer without him in power. \u003cbr/\u003eBut Kerry answered that Bush's handling of the war had left Iraq in chaos.\u003cbr/\u003eTwenty-five days before the election, Bush and Kerry confronted each other aggressively in a town-hall session before an audience of 140 likely voters. \u003cbr/\u003ePerched on stools, the candidates were quizzed in the gymnasium at Washington University in St. Louis. \u003cbr/\u003eThey paced the stage as they answered the questions chosen by moderator Charlie Gibson.\u003cbr/\u003eUnlike last week's first debate, which focused on national security issues, Friday's face-off was open to all subjects.\u003cbr/\u003eCriticising the president's decision to invade Iraq, Kerry said, \"If we'd use smart diplomacy, we could have saved 200 billion (US) dollars and an invasion of Iraq and right now Osama bin Laden might be in jail or dead. That's the war on terror.\"\u003cbr/\u003eThe debate came two days after the chief US arms inspector reported that Saddam Hussein did not have illicit weapons nor the means to make them. \u003cbr/\u003eBush said, \"We didn't find out he didn't have weapons till we got there.\" \u003cbr/\u003eWeapons of mass destruction was the central rationale for the war that has cost more than 1-thousand American lives.\u003cbr/\u003eThe debate, the second of three, opened with a question to Kerry about whether he was too wishy-washy. \u003cbr/\u003eKerry turned that question into an attack against Bush, saying the president \"didn't find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, so he's really turned his campaign into a weapon of mass deception\" by claiming that the four-term Massachusetts senator had changed his mind when he had not.\u003cbr/\u003e\"I can see why people think he changes a lot,\" Bush retorted, \"because he does.\" \u003cbr/\u003eHe pointed out that Kerry had said he had voted for an 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