Dean With Envy (You Don’t Need New Advisors To Lift Rhetoric From Howard Dean)

Republican National Committee ^ | September 7, 2004

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DEAN WITH ENVY
You Don’t Need New Advisors To Lift Rhetoric From Howard Dean
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NEW ADVISORS LEAD KERRY TO OLD RHETORIC

Kerry Yesterday: “Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry on Monday called the invasion of Iraq ‘the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time’ and said his goal was to withdraw U.S. troops in a first White House term.”(Patricia Wilson, “Kerry On Iraq: ‘Wrong War, Wrong Place, Wrong Time’,” Reuters, 9/6/04)

Dean In March 2003: “It is our patriotic duty to say to the president, ‘We wish our troops well. We hope they get home safely and soon, but Mr. President, we think this war is a mistake,’ … This is the wrong war at the wrong time …” (Christopher Graff, “Howard Dean Says He Will Back Troops, But Not War Policies,” The Associated Press, 3/17/03)

OLD RHETORIC LEADS KERRY TO LATEST FLIP-FLOP May 2003: Kerry Defended Decision To Support President Bush On Iraq, While Dean Again Said Iraq Was “Wrong War At The Wrong Time.” ABC’s GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS:  “And Senator Kerry, the first question goes to you. On March 19th, President Bush ordered General Tommy Franks to execute the invasion of Iraq. Was that the right decision at the right time?”  SENATOR JOHN KERRY (D-MA):  “George, I said at the time I would have preferred if we had given diplomacy a greater opportunity, but I think it was the right decision to disarm Saddam Hussein. And when the president made the decision, I supported him, and I support the fact that we did disarm him.”  STEPHANOPOULOS:  “Now Governor Dean, you’ve criticized Senator Kerry on the campaign trail, saying he’s trying to have it both ways on the issue of Iraq. Was that answer clear enough for you?”  GOVERNOR HOWARD DEAN:  “Let me be very clear about what I believe. I’m delighted to see Saddam Hussein gone. I appreciate the fact that we have a strong military in this country and I’d keep a strong military in this country. But I think this is the wrong war at the wrong time, because we have set a new policy of preventive war in this country and I think that was the wrong thing to do, because sooner or later, we’re going to see another country copy the United States, and sooner or later we’re going to have to deal with the fact that there may well be a Shi’a fundamentalist regime set up in Iraq, which would be a greater danger to the United States than Iraq is.”  (ABC’s Democrat Presidential Candidates Debate, Columbia, SC, 5/3/03)

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Deanis Envy?

Where is Freud when we need him?