Pulling the punches: Rove, Dean debate current issues before rowdy ASU crowd [View All]

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http://www.statepress.com/2010/03/07/rove-dean-debate-current-issues-before-rowdy-asu-crowd/

If politics were a contact sport, Howard Dean and Karl Rove might have been bruised and bloodied coming off the ASU Gammage stage Saturday night.

Driven by the crowd’s boos, cheers and occasional derogatory outbursts, Rove, the former deputy chief of staff for the Bush administration, and Dean, the former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, squared off in a debate that covered contentious issues like the war in Iraq, health care and illegal immigration.

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“War criminal Rove, you should be arrested,” the audience member shouted.

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“I think somebody lied,” Dean said. “I don’t know if it was George Bush or if Dick Cheney withheld information from the President of the United States … but somebody did not tell the truth to the American people about why we went into Iraq.”