Fri September 26, 2003 06:44 PM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential hopeful Howard Dean called on Friday for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to resign, citing a "pattern of deception" in his statements on Iraq and a failure to plan for the postwar period.
Dean is the second Democratic candidate for the 2004 presidential nomination to seek Rumsfeld's resignation as critics of the Bush administration turn up the heat on the Pentagon amid continued violence in Iraq.
Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry called on Thursday for Rumsfeld to step down, saying he proceeded in Iraq "in an arrogant, inappropriate way that has frankly put America at jeopardy."
Dean, the former governor of Vermont, also said Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz should resign and announced he was starting a national petition drive on the Internet to demonstrate support for their resignations.
Republican National Committee spokeswoman Christine Iverson said Dean and Kerry were "playing a game of political copy cat. If John Kerry calls for one administration official to resign, Howard Dean has to call for two."
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Note carefully exactly who is taking their cues from North Korea...
Exactly. And vice versa. If you didn't know who the quotes are attributed to, you wouldn't be able to tell them apart.
Liberal Democrats, our enemies.