Overseas, George Bush has led -- and misled -- us on a course at odds with 200 years of our history. He has squandered the goodwill of the world after Sept. 11 and lost the respect and influence we need to make our country safe. And here on the home front, every investigation, every commission, every piece of evidence we have tells us that this president has failed to make us as safe as we should be.-- Democratic presidential candidate, Senator John Kerry