Howard Dean: Osama bin Laden Had Nothing to do with 9/11

Meet the Press ^ | May 22, 2005 | Howard Dean

[West Coast Conservative]

DR. DEAN: I said I wasn't sure, but I said I thought there probably were. But the thing that really bothered me the most, which the 9-11 Commission said also wasn't true, is the insinuation that the president continues to make to this day that Osama bin Laden had something to do with supporting terrorists that attacked the United States. That is false. The 9-11 Commission, chaired by a Republican, said it was false.

[expat_panama]

So maybe 23 years from now in 2028,  Howard Dean's handlers will finally teach him how to parrot::

"There's no question I did not adequately explain what I was thinking. I felt very strongly, and I, of course, do so today, that regardless of the statements made by Osama bin Laden that he was responsible for 9/11, that Mr. bin Laden was basically a good person and 9/11 with Bush's fault from the beginning."

[speekinout]

If you're just voting for party label, you're a big part of the problem. There are bad GOPers, and bad Dems (far more of the latter), and also bad third party candidates.
Until you decide what your priorities are, and vote for the candidate who agrees with the most of them, things will not get better.

[M. Espinola]

Dean has once again proven "Liberalism IS a Mental disorder!"

"They were overjoyed when the first plane hit the building so I said to them: 'Be patient.'" — Osama bin Laden

[Jorge]

It's hard to believe they made this crackpot the Chairman of the Democrat Party.
Dean is an embarrassment.

[tioga]

hillary will appear extremely moderate compared to deanie....

[StarFan]

I heard the exchange this morning which told me Russert was no longer listening to Dean's jibberish or he surely would have corrected the error.

[AFPhys]

Right - it actually was DeLay who engineered the WTC plane crashes. He had Israeli support, too. I heard it from my friends here at the university, so it must be true.

[AFPhys]

the time will come to vote third party - but these Demodogs still have to fall a rung or two further - that time is approaching, though.

[Victoria Delsoul]

What an idiot!

[Gunrunner2]

She will plan to appear moderate until she seizes power.. .and then, yes, most definitely, she will be a socialist nightmare and the rats, in their blind following of anyone not republican, will follow her (or Stalin) if she is against the Republicans.

[MeanFreePath]

I'm sure it was an honest mistake. The mainstream media should give him a pass. It's not like he put an "e" on the end of "potato" or anything...

[CGVet58]

I wouldn't get so comfy; the man is such a flaming idiot that he makes Hillary look sane... and that might be the plan to garner her some of our 'red' votes.

[eeriegeno]

In his first public broadcast, IMHO, this slimey SOB has made clear that he is a loose cannon. So many holes in his statements that I just don't know where to begin! I predict that his soul will rot in hell and that Terri will be smiling as she watches the event.......

[NYC GOP Chick]

I'm still disappointed that he didn't get the dems' nomination last year. Would have made for some great yuks.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Unfortunately the size of government is proportional to the complexity and power of a nation. We are both the most complex and the most powerful therefore we are going to have a big government.

[GeorgiaYankee]

"I think the Bible says something to the effect that be careful when you talk about the shortcomings of somebody else when you haven't removed the moat from your own eye."

Matthew 7 3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? 4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? 5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.

This from the same Howard Dean who said his favorite book in the NEW Testament was JOB!

Dean, the gift that keeps on giving. Long live Mad Howie!

[GeorgiaYankee]

Dean on Dems being criticized by Limbaugh and others

The problem is it is galling to Democrats, 48 percent of us who did not support the president, it is galling to be lectured to about moral values by folks who have their own problems. Hypocrisy is a value that I think has been embraced by the Republican Party. We get lectured by people all day long about moral values by people who have their own moral shortcomings.... Everybody has ethical shortcomings. We ought not to lecture each other about our ethical shortcomings.

Dean on Tom Delay

This gentleman is not an ethical person, and he ought not to be leading Congress, period. And it is endemic of what happens in Congress when one party controls everything.

Gee, I'm glad Howie isn't a hypocrite!

[reagan_fanatic]

I used to think Dean was just putting on an act, that he was a master tactician with a cunning, long term plan to defeat the Pubbies - now I just think he's stark raving mad.

[GeorgiaYankee]

I'm using your artwork at my site

http://hometown.aol.com/cfitva

right-click on the poster to download video highlights of Dean contradicting himself.

[reagan_fanatic]

Awesome! Many thanks (and cool website!)