The NY Times has a series of op-eds today with rhetorical questions for the debate tonight. I thought I’d answer a few:
Partisan Democrat, member of the previous administration, to Republican President running for re-election:

But since the direction is obviously wrong, don’t we at least need to change drivers?

Response:

No.

Glad I could help out there Madeleine.

Compared with when you took office, are we more safe or less safe on the Korean Peninsula? What concrete progress have you made during the past in preventing North Korea from building nuclear weapons?

Response:

I’m so glad you mentioned this. What we in this administration inherited from you and Bubba was such a gosh darned mess that we’re only just getting to the point where we can do something about it. By invading one country, capturing it’s dictator, destroying its army and freeing its people we have managed to make one more such, Libya, give up its pretensions to nuclear and other WMD programs. That has brought ‘Lil Kim back to the negotiating table and reminded him that we mean business. As opposed to bloviating.

Publisher of the NYT:

Your version of Christianity supports and blesses preventive war. What relation is this to the Christianity preached by the pope and by mainstream Protestants who oppose preventive war?

Response:

Almost all Christian Churches take their views on war from Thomas Aquinas and his teachings on “Just War”. Catholic and Protestant, “mainstream” as you so misleadingly put it and Evangelical. At the root of the idea are two points. That there should be no alternative and that the evil done by the war is less than the evil that will be done without it. Ten years of sanctions did not dislodge Saddam and his use of poison gas against his own people, the mass graves, the tortures and the killings were certainly a greater evil than that caused by the invasion. I know that I will answer before God for this decision, as I will for all the other actions of my life. I am certain that liberating Iraq from a fascist hell was a Just War.

From an ex-intelligence chief, one who flounced out of the Administration over whether he got the corner office or not:

do you think that attacking Iraqi cities, as we have done in Falluja and Najaf, is in the long-term interest of the United States?

Response:

It was and is in the best interest of the United States to invade the country, those cities are inside the country, well Richard, you do the logic.”

There’s also a series of questions for John Kerry but they’re not nearly so much fun.