Howard Dean: ‘We’ve not paid attention to al-Qaida’

AP / Portsmouth Herald ^ | 1/2/2004 | Holly Ramer

[Welsh Rabbit]

Sounds like he's as astute in foriegn affairs as his late brother was.

[reed_inthe_wind]

"Democrat Howard Dean said that the events of the last few weeks have shown he was right to conclude that Saddam Hussein’s capture didn’t make America safer. "

The UN has been around for 50 years - I ask you, is America any safer?

[cake_crumb]

"I think he's more like 'FRUITY!' "

LOL...that too. Hmmmm....fuzzy, fruity...he's a basket of MOLDY PEACHES!

[cyncooper]

"My fear is that the (Karl) Rove polls will tell him (Bush), ‘You’ve gotta get out, you’ve gotta get out,’ and he’ll start doing that, " Dean said, referring to Bush’s 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.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

The more U.S. troops are killed, the more high-fives and drinks are passed around at Dean's campaign headquarters.

[thesummerwind]

Howard Dean: ‘We’ve not paid attention to al-Qaida’

Those military doctors at your physical exam should have paid no attention to those "x-rays" of yours.

Go skiing, Doc.

[cyncooper]

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.

[xJones]

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. :)

[Wolfstar]

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.

[cyncooper]

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.

[.cnI redruM]

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.

[Carolinamom]

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.)

[logan]

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.

[Darksheare]

Welcome to FR.

[Criminal Number 18F]

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

[bwteim]

Agree.

[Dog]

You know what this means don't you??

We'll bag Osmama.....or Al-Zawihiri now.

[Erik Latranyi]

We’ve not paid attention to al-Qaida.

...and we've not paid attention to your mental problems.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

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.

[Darksheare]

That to me, or Dean?
Dean's the one who initally stated that.