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Howard Dean: ‘We’ve not paid attention to al-Qaida’
AP / Portsmouth Herald ^
| 1/2/2004
| Holly Ramer
Posted on 01/03/2004 9:53:06 AM PST by rs79bm
NASHUA, N.H. -- Democrat Howard Dean said that the events of the last few weeks have shown he was right to conclude that Saddam Husseins capture didnt make America safer.
Dean, the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, faced criticism from his partys rivals for his comments following the Dec. 13 capture of Saddam. Since then, the national terrorism alert has been raised to orange and more troops have been killed in Iraq, he said at a town hall meeting in Nashua.
"They got all excited, but here we are," the former Vermont governor said. "Weve lost 10 more troops and F-16s are escorting foreign passenger jets into our air space because were now more worried than we were before.
"I can assure you its not Saddam whos threatening to bomb airplanes," Dean said. "Its al-Qaida. Weve not paid attention to al-Qaida. Weve spent $160 billion, lost over 400 servicemen, and wounded and permanently maimed over 2,000 people because we picked the wrong target."
Dean said even though he opposed the war, his greatest fear now is that "this administration will pull out of Iraq too early for political reasons," Dean said.
If that happens, al-Qaida will move into Iraq and become more powerful than ever.
"My fear is that the (Karl) Rove polls will tell him (Bush), Youve gotta get out, youve gotta get out, and hell start doing that, " Dean said, referring to Bushs chief political adviser.
TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
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To: rs79bm
Sounds like he's as astute in foriegn affairs as his late brother was.
To: rs79bm
"Democrat Howard Dean said that the events of the last few weeks have shown he was right to conclude that Saddam Husseins capture didnt make America safer. "
The UN has been around for 50 years - I ask you, is America any safer?
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posted on
01/03/2004 10:34:31 AM PST
by
reed_inthe_wind
(That Hillary really knows how to internationalize my MOJO.)
To: goodnesswins
"I think he's more like 'FRUITY!' "LOL...that too. Hmmmm....fuzzy, fruity...he's a basket of MOLDY PEACHES!
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posted on
01/03/2004 10:35:14 AM PST
by
cake_crumb
(UN Resolutions = Very Expensive, Very SCRATCHY Toilet Paper)
To: rs79bm
"My fear is that the (Karl) Rove polls will tell him (Bush), Youve gotta get out, youve gotta get out, and hell start doing that, " Dean said, referring to Bushs chief political adviser.Dean is a pathetic weasely liar.
Unlike he, President Bush makes his decisions based on the welfare of our country, not political expediency.
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posted on
01/03/2004 10:37:23 AM PST
by
cyncooper
("The evil is in plain sight")
To: rs79bm
The more U.S. troops are killed, the more high-fives and drinks are passed around at Dean's campaign headquarters.
To: rs79bm
Howard Dean: Weve not paid attention to al-QaidaThose military doctors at your physical exam should have paid no attention to those "x-rays" of yours.
Go skiing, Doc.
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posted on
01/03/2004 10:39:52 AM PST
by
thesummerwind
(Images of broken light which dance before me like a million eyes)
To: bwteim
It's called having your cake and eating it, too.
In case you haven't noticed, dems are allowed to throw logic out the window and offer conflicting pronouncements with perhaps an article or two recognizing the fact, and then they "move on".
I do not detect any note of disapproval in the tone of this article, for example.
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posted on
01/03/2004 10:40:25 AM PST
by
cyncooper
("The evil is in plain sight")
To: Skooz
This will come as a great surprise to the al quaida terrorists hiding in caves being actively hunted down by the US military.Okay, but it might not surprise them nearly as much as the daisy cutters dropped on Afghanistan did, and still the Taliban might not agree,.... but let's not quibble. Dean now says we haven't paid attention to al-Quaida. (That's for today, stay tuned for tomorrow's cast pearl from Dean.)
Uhmmm, what stronger move would he have suggested: the proverbial threat of making a glass parking lot of Afghanistan & ajoining Pakistan areas? Now THAT would have been the only higher phase of paying attention, but it does seem a little radical for a Vermont salon that can't make his mind up from one day to another.
One could suggest that maybe Bill could have taken the Sudanese offer of Osama on a platter in 1996, but the Sudanese government couldn't get a response from the Clinton administration and exiled bin Laden to Afghanistan instead. Of course, mentioning that extreme failure which could have prevented 9/ll might get Hillary on Dean's case and even he's not that crazy. :)
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posted on
01/03/2004 10:41:31 AM PST
by
xJones
To: fish hawk
He is out campaigning and still knows what our CIA, FBI and all our foreign agents are doing.
The really scary thing is that whichever Leftist/Dem scumbag gets their nomination, he will begin receiving national security briefings, per tradition. I don't think all but perhaps two or three of them (Lieberman, Gephardt, and maybe Kerry) can be trusted with such information. Certainly Dean could not.
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posted on
01/03/2004 10:42:57 AM PST
by
Wolfstar
(George W. Bush — the 1st truly great world leader of the 21st Century)
To: logan
I worry that Rove will make a calculation in the summer and pull back too far in order to tie up the election;Rove has nothing to do with decision making regarding Iraq, logan.
Nothing.
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posted on
01/03/2004 10:43:04 AM PST
by
cyncooper
("The evil is in plain sight")
To: rs79bm
From 1996 - 2000, how much attention did the last Democratic administration pay to Al Quaeda or the Taliban? If you guessed zero, you're a winner.
If Dean had been in office in 2001, how much attention would his administration have payed to the Taliban after Sept 11? Plenty. he would have caved to all of their demands.
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posted on
01/03/2004 10:44:52 AM PST
by
.cnI redruM
(Dean People Suck!)
To: cyncooper
William F. Buckley called Dean "the taumaturgist from Vermont". In other words, Dean is "a performer of miracles or magic feats". (I've learned a lot of new ...to me...vocabulary in the Buckley and Emmett Terrell columns.)
To: cyncooper
Rove has nothing to do with decision making regarding Iraq, logan. Well, maybe not now; but it's hard to believe he didn't have a hand in how they used the buildup to the invasion to pull off the unprecidented 2002 victories.
I'm glad to see everyone agree's we've got to own up to our responsibility here though. I'm just a little more sanguine about what kinds of compromises people will make when re-election is on the line.
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posted on
01/03/2004 10:51:35 AM PST
by
logan
To: logan
Welcome to FR.
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posted on
01/03/2004 10:53:03 AM PST
by
Darksheare
(I know all I need to know about you. That mysterious duck over there however...)
To: rs79bm
Yeah, we've forgotten about Al-Qaida, Howie. Yeah, right. Please tell me WTF I was doing in Afghanistan or why the guys I bagged are still in Gitmo...? Oh wait, you wanna let them go, right? THAT's a real good way to deal with al-Q.
Why do we have a joint special operations task force in Yemen? Hmmm.
And don't forget to tell me who the guys that the SF guys at the border outpost east of Khost smoked the other day were. The papers on their bodies were in Arabic. Howard....?
Who is this guy's national security expert? Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf?
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
To: cyncooper
Agree.
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posted on
01/03/2004 10:56:13 AM PST
by
bwteim
(Begin With The End In Mind)
To: Carolinamom
You know what this means don't you??
We'll bag Osmama.....or Al-Zawihiri now.
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posted on
01/03/2004 10:56:23 AM PST
by
Dog
To: Darksheare
Weve not paid attention to al-Qaida.
...and we've not paid attention to your mental problems.
To: Dog
I share the belief that Bin Laden is a ghost. They are using his past images for propaganda.
It's funny why there are no current images of him, only voices, and every excuse in the book for why they produce no current images of him. He may be nothing more than a corpse.
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posted on
01/03/2004 11:00:11 AM PST
by
PSYCHO-FREEP
(HOW ABOUT rooting for our side for a change, you Liberalterian Morons!)
To: Erik Latranyi
That to me, or Dean?
Dean's the one who initally stated that.
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posted on
01/03/2004 11:00:42 AM PST
by
Darksheare
(I know all I need to know about you. That mysterious duck over there however...)
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