Howard Dean giving the 'devil' his due (truth telling about Bush)

[papau]

<http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/01/12/column.shields.opinion.devil.due/index.html>

Howard Dean giving the 'devil' his due

WASHINGTON (Creators Syndicate) --<snip>..Why this anger? How about the news that the Bush administration has quietly withdrawn a 400-strong military team it had confidently dispatched to Baghdad to uncover Iraq's WMD (weapons of mass destruction)? Or maybe the respected Carnegie Endowment for International Peace's report charging that "administration officials systematically misrepresented the threat from Iraq's WMD and ballistic missile programs" and "there was no evidence to support the claim that Iraq would have transferred WMD to Al Qaeda and much evidence to counter it" got a few folks hot under the collar.

Without real threats to justify last March's invasion of Iraq, then the Bush policy turns out to be -- at the tragically painful price of 3,000 serious American casualties -- the removal of Saddam Hussein from power. Was that the deal? Does it tick you off that while the United States spends more on health care than any other nation, we expand our worldwide lead in the number of our citizens who are uninsured -- 43 million of our neighbors? Does it get either your Irish up that the administration brags about an economy where nearly 9 million of our brothers and sisters who spent today looking for work will not have a job to go to tomorrow, as they did not have a job to go to yesterday, and that nearly 5 million Americans who want to work full-time are limited to part-time jobs?<snip>

...right out of the 2000 Republican playbook...McCain ...did not have the appropriate presidential temperament: He has a bad temper; he was too angry. Funny, I recall no videotape of McCain tantrums.

<snip> ..Dean...radio broadcast of a...charge that George W. Bush had foreknowledge of the Sept. 11 attacks was ...not unlike President Ronald Reagan's smear during the 1988 campaign of Democrat Michael Dukakis' mental and emotional stability. <snip>

[cavebat2000]

1. I like Dean

just watches his caucus in Iowa.... AWESOME