Go, Dean, Go!
Howard Dean is living up to the expectations I had when I urged conservatives to help make him the Democratic nominee so that George W. Bush would have an easy victory.
Here’s Dean on the other Democratic candidates:
“Why is it that those in Congress have waited until now to question the intelligence, to question the lack of postwar planning, to question the skyrocketing costs of this war?” Dean said. “Why were they not asking these questions and seeking the truth nine months ago, before they voted to give the President blank-check authority to go to war?”…
Dean did not mention any of his rivals by name yesterday. But he displayed an enlarged copy of the resolution and noted that it did not require the President to exhaust all diplomatic means before going to war — a slap at Kerry’s assertion Monday that Bush circumvented portions of the resolution by not exhausting all diplomatic options or building an international coalition before attacking Saddam’s forces.
New claims by members of Congress that they were misled by Bush amount to a lack of leadership, Dean said.
And on the demise of Saddam’s sons:
“It’s a victory for the Iraqi people . . . but it doesn’t have any effect on whether we should or shouldn’t have had a war,” Dean said after a health-care forum at Elliot Hospital. “I think in general the ends do not justify the means.”
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