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Howard Dean continues to perpetuate Republican Lies-Warns of danger of Iraq pullout

by Open-Publishing - Thursday 21 April 2005
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"Now that we’re there, we’re there and we can’t get out," he told an audience of nearly 1,000 at the Minneapolis Convention Center. "The president has created an enormous security problem for the United States where none existed before. But I hope the president is incredibly successful with his policy now that he’s there."

An American pullout could endanger the United States in any of three ways, Dean said: by leaving a Shiite theocracy worse than that in Iran, which he called a more serious threat than Iraq ever was; by creating an independent Kurdistan in the north, with destabilizing effects on neighboring Kurdish regions of Turkey, Iran and Syria, and by making the Sunni Triangle a magnet for Islamic terrorists similar to the former Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. "That’s where Al Qaida will set up," he said.

Dean, the new chairman of the Democratic National Committee, spoke at a benefit for the American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota, even though he noted that as Vermont governor, "I got sued by

the ACLU." Charles Samuelson, the local unit’s executive director, said Wednesday’s event raised about $40,000.

Between a speech he delivered without notes and a question-answer session, Dean regaled an appreciative audience for nearly 90 minutes without once raising his voice, as he did after last year’s Iowa primary election. But he did draw howls of laughter by mimicking a drug-snorting Rush Limbaugh.

"I’m not very dignified," he said. "But I’m not running for president anymore." In fact, as part of his commitment to lead the party for the next four years, he has sworn not to seek any office until after 2008.

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  • Howard Dean ’hopes the president is incredibly successful with his policy’...What policy is that? Killing innocents daily? War Profiteering, shooting journalists, dropping napalm on Fallujah,abusing Iraqis, commiting genocide by spreading depleted uranium all over the entire country? I’m sure the president is so happy to have your support Howard, but who exactly do you work for?

    Perhaps Howard Dean needs to listen to Robert Fisk and Howard Zinn and wake up to the reality of what is happening in Iraq. (note to Howard Dean- shut off Fox TV and quit patting Bush on the back- we are not going to ’win’)

    "We are not bringing liberty to Iraq, we are trying to bludgeon them into submission"
    Howard Zinn MP3

    ’The whole project in Iraq is finished. We are not being told by Bush or Blair, perhaps because of their own fantasies or misjudgements. The insurgency is so great now,even with their technology, the US cannot control it. The insurgents control most of the country’’
    Robert Fisk-Bush is Delusional

  • his silence after the nomination was given to Kerry showed us who he really was all along.
    the democrats are republicans in sheep’s (donkey suits) clothing

    DON’T BE FOOLED AGAIN

  • He once had promise, he is now a nothingburger.

  • Et tu Brute!

  • Every time Sean Hannity mentions the name Ted Kennedy he hiccups. Now Dean gives the Republicans a little taste of their own medicine by immitating a snorting Rush Limbaugh and Republicans call him childish. I wish Dean would also immitate pulling a slot machine lever every time he mentioned Bill Bennett, and could pretend to dial the phone for phone sex abuser O’Reilly. For Sean Hannity, well, he could just immitate him with a drool.

    • When the head of one of the two major parties in the US lowers himself to the standards of loudmouth pundits, that’s not good for our democracy.

    • discourse has become coarse.
      Keep the high road and continue to be ignored by the "culture" we’re creating.

      Dean is following Powell’s viewpoint: you break it, you fix it.

      This was the problem with the Bush "plan" (that there was no plan). Now we’re there and we’re responsible.

    • This stay the course horseshit, has to be examined broadly by the people who pay the bills (you and me folks). It is getting more and more unsavory. Halliburton, etc. has throughly ripped us as has our government and they are sweeping it under the carpet. THERE IS NO PROOF THAT THE IRAQI PEOPLE ARE NOT CAPABLE OF REBUILDING THEIR OWN COUNTRY. If we signed agreements with them that we would pay for the damage we have done there they could begin employing the thousands of unemployed people who are mad as hell at us for good reason, and we could at last do the right thing which would be to leave them alone and give them back their country, no bases for Mr. Sharon, or Mr. Bish, just get the fuck out. Give the taxpayers of this poor country a break, all of the money spent in Iraq to date hundreds (yes that is right) hundreds of MILLIONS of dollars have been spent destroying their cities, their infrastructure, their lives, their families. THEY HATE US AND WANT US OUT DESPITE THIS BEING SUPRESSED BY THE INBEDDED (in-bed) NEWS MEDIA WHO ARE THERE TO PAINT SMILY FACES ON OUR ATTROCITIES. THE AMERICAN PEOPLE SHOULD DEMAND THAT WE CUT OUR LOSSES BOTH IN BLOOD AND IN TAX MONEY we will get nothing of value for what it is spent on, and it makes us evil in the eyes of the rest of the world.

  • we are there, but "WE" are not responsible ... "THEY" are responsible and should send their youth and pay for it as well ...

  • Good ol’ pro-war, anti-abortion, no-opinion-on-ANWAR Dean, fearlessly representing the Republican wing of the Democratic party.

    • Oh their s solid bunch those "elected" representatives....you couldn’t fit a dime between any of them as they stand shoulder to shoulder they are that tight. WE NEED TO GET RID OF ALL OF THEM.

  • Dean’s pretty cool.

    You people should relax a little bit and get out more...sheesh.