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12-09-2005, 01:38 PM
<TABLE width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD>Howard Dean on the Iraq War
Posted by: Jon Henke on Thursday, December 08, 2005
</TD></TR><TR><TD class=blogbody>In light of Howard Dean's most recent eruption—"we can't win"—John Judis writes in The New Republic (http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=w051205&s=judis120805) about all the many ways Howard Dean has been right about the war in Iraq...During the months leading up to the invasion of Iraq, and during the invasion and occupation, Dean has been almost consistently correct in his statements. He has been the Democrats' and the nation's Cassandra—willing to reveal bitter truths about which Republicans and his fellow Democrats would prefer that he remain silent. ... Here is a brief timeline of Dean's most controversial statements about Iraq and his critics' responses during the months before and immediately after the invasion:There follows a list of opinion (the "capture of Saddam has not made America safer"), strawmen (he wasn't convinced there was an "imminent threat"), and fairly obvious predictions ("the occupation will be very difficult"). Fair enough. But here are some more quotes...
Did you know Dean thought (http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/02/20/dean/index2.html) we ought to give Saddam a 30-60 day deadline, and then go into Iraq unilaterally?He gets a deluge of phone calls from reporters asking him to clarify his position. Which is—"as I've said about eight times today," he says, annoyed—that Saddam must be disarmed, but with a multilateral force under the auspices of the United Nations. If the U.N. in the end chooses not to enforce its own resolutions, then the U.S. should give Saddam 30 to 60 days to disarm, and if he doesn't, unilateral action is a regrettable, but unavoidable, choice.Did you know Howard Dean thought that Iraq was a threat to the United States (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/09/30/ftn/main523726.shtml)?"There's no question that Saddam Hussein is a threat to the United States and to our allies. The question is, is he an immediate threat? The president has not yet made the case for that."</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> More at The QandO Blog (http://www.qando.net/details.aspx?Entry=3060).
Posted by: Jon Henke on Thursday, December 08, 2005
</TD></TR><TR><TD class=blogbody>In light of Howard Dean's most recent eruption—"we can't win"—John Judis writes in The New Republic (http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=w051205&s=judis120805) about all the many ways Howard Dean has been right about the war in Iraq...During the months leading up to the invasion of Iraq, and during the invasion and occupation, Dean has been almost consistently correct in his statements. He has been the Democrats' and the nation's Cassandra—willing to reveal bitter truths about which Republicans and his fellow Democrats would prefer that he remain silent. ... Here is a brief timeline of Dean's most controversial statements about Iraq and his critics' responses during the months before and immediately after the invasion:There follows a list of opinion (the "capture of Saddam has not made America safer"), strawmen (he wasn't convinced there was an "imminent threat"), and fairly obvious predictions ("the occupation will be very difficult"). Fair enough. But here are some more quotes...
Did you know Dean thought (http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/02/20/dean/index2.html) we ought to give Saddam a 30-60 day deadline, and then go into Iraq unilaterally?He gets a deluge of phone calls from reporters asking him to clarify his position. Which is—"as I've said about eight times today," he says, annoyed—that Saddam must be disarmed, but with a multilateral force under the auspices of the United Nations. If the U.N. in the end chooses not to enforce its own resolutions, then the U.S. should give Saddam 30 to 60 days to disarm, and if he doesn't, unilateral action is a regrettable, but unavoidable, choice.Did you know Howard Dean thought that Iraq was a threat to the United States (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/09/30/ftn/main523726.shtml)?"There's no question that Saddam Hussein is a threat to the United States and to our allies. The question is, is he an immediate threat? The president has not yet made the case for that."</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> More at The QandO Blog (http://www.qando.net/details.aspx?Entry=3060).