Dean tells San Francisco crowd his views on Iraq are unchanged

SF Gate ^ | 12/14/03

[finnman69]

Standing by the anti-war message that helped vault him to front-runner status among Democratic presidential candidates, former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean said Sunday night that the capture of Saddam Hussein has not changed his views about the conflict in Iraq.

[finnman69]

"His platform is not just opposing the war in Iraq."

No, it's also placating terrorists, putting other nations before the US, taxing the hell out of you, killing babies, and making gay marriage legal everywhere.

[My2Cents]

He also wants us to stop talking about God, guns, gays, and abortion -- he's against free speech.

[Prime Choice]

Poor poor Howard Dean...he's devolved into the Grinch who couldn't steal Christmas. ; )

[1smallVoice]

Dean is a joke, I hope he only leaves after November.

[VRWC_minion]

Good, I was nervous he might change.

[wizardoz]

"He's a bad person and we're all better off with him in captivity. But you should know that my views on Iraq have not changed one bit."

Translation: "We are better off with him in captivity, but if it were up to me, he'd still be free, so logically, we'd be worse off. Vote for me; you'll be worse off!" Great logo for guilty white liberals. They claim they want to be worse off and here's the candidate willing to take them up on it.

[gridlock]

If Dean were smart and not a megalomaniac (to negative conditions, right off the bat), he would have come out today and said that he was wrong about Iraq all along, that the capture of Saddam proves the wisdom of the Bush policy of intervention, and that he is a big enough man to admit it when facts prove him incorrect.

He can then leap-frog all of the other Democratic contenders right into the center, and start duking it out with Bush on the details of the occupation. He could placate his anti-war supporters by continuing to carp on the US war effort. Any subsequent Dem who tried to move even an iota to the center would be accused, and rightly so, of me-tooing Howard Dean yet again.

Sure, it would cost Dean a little bit of his hard-core anti-war support. But most of these people would realize it is a facade (especially with a few winks from Dean in their direction), and would stick with the man most capable of beating the hated George W. Bush. The rest of the Dem field would be stupified, and the media would gush over Deans masterful handling of a difficult situation.

Think of it as Sista Soulja writ large.

If Howard Dean was smart and not a megalomaniac, this is what he would have done today...

[international american]

"Early reports indicate Dean was speaking while stupid.......

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Stick to the guitar, Bonnie. Your politics died with Jimmah Cartah.

[.cnI redruM]

It's time for Lieberman, Gephardt and Clark to release the hounds on this pathetic hack. There has to be something left in the Democratic Party to the right of DU.

[Benrand]

I'm sure gov. Dean wants to bring the Roman Empire and the Soviet Union into our international coalition.

[mountaineer]

His platform changes daily.

[Cicero]

Keep in mind that this is a San Francisco audience, where at least 95% of the audience is nuts. And it's being reported in a San Francisco paper. The media will try to make sure that only the right people hear these speeches. When he speaks to wider or more conservative audiences, Dean will say something very different.

This wouldn't be possible without the assiduous help of a prostitute press. But with their help, clinton managed to do something very similar, speaking out of both sides of his mouth.

[samtheman]

"I can't be sorry he's captured," said Nancy Head, 61, an artist from San Francisco.

Says it all.

[EggsAckley]

"I can't be sorry he's captured," said Nancy Head, 61, an artist from San Francisco. "It's a big deal. But it's not good for Dean. It gives Bush a lot more clout."

The Deanie Babies just can't get it. The "it's all about MEEEEE" generation.

[AmericanInTokyo]

DEAN ALERT!

[VOA]

"Dean tells San Francisco crowd his views on Iraq are unchanged "

It really is Christmas time!

[VOYAGER]

Dean tells San Francisco crowd his views on Iraq are unchanged.

And the outcome would be the same. a castrated military and a homosexual administration.

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Couldn't have summed up Dean's platform better myself.

[finnman69]

Saddamfreude!