DEAN on Late Edition (1:20PM ET CNN) NOW

[Khephra]

[KittyWampus]

1. Finally, Something That Won't Make Me Puke Today

[Khephra]

2. It HAS been a wreteched day for liberals on the talk shows, hasn't it?

[LittleApple81]

27. Holbrooke on This Week was great... but it was 3 against 1.

He said that the Bush approach in Iraq was like jumping in a pool without knowing if there was water in it. And he estimated there was very little water in there.

[LittleApple81]

33. DELETE. Wrong place. n/t

[dogman]

24. Like an Oasis.

Refreshing to hear some truth spoken.

[Khephra]

3. Still not on yet...

[LosinIt]

4. good, I thought I had missed him

[Khephra]

5. Oh Hell!

We might have to wait for Frist to spew his bile before we get to hear Dean.

:grr:

[LosinIt]

6. I just can't do it, Captain!

We don't have the power.

[Khephra]

7. Truthfully, I don't either....

Communications, put the volume on mute! Make it so!

[LosinIt]

9. Consider it done, Captain!

[KittyWampus]

8. Blitzer Dubs Dean "War Critic"

okay

[LittleApple81]

10. What is Frist doing in Istambul? He is our favorite mortician.. is

he selling coffins, or health insurance for the Iraqis? Oh, I forgot... we have promised Iraqis good healthcare because we KNOW what it feels like not to have it.
I TURNED HIM OFF. What a relief. Anybody can tell me when Dean shows up?

[Khephra]

11. I'll post as soon as Dean's on

[Khephra]

12. Dean's On!

[LittleApple81]

13. Thanks. I had to turn it off with Frist...He feeds on dead people.n/t

[Khephra]

14. YES! He spoke up for the women in Iraq who are LOSING their rights

contrary to what most American journalists think. I swear he just might be the first politician I've heard who accurately stated the difference for women pre/post Saddam.

[Khephra]

15. And he hit on the topic again! Go Dean!

[Khephra]

16. Now Wolf is taking Dean to task on the topic

And Dean's going through the differences. Hehehehehe...he's really, really grown as an interview subject.

[Rose Siding]

18. Blitzer acts like it's common knowledge

that Iraqis are better off now and it's sacreligeous to say otherwise! HOW does he think they are better off?

[Cheswick2.0]

22. shit I seemed to have missed it all

What was his main topic or purpose? Was he on to dispute he war?

[Rose Siding]

25. Here's the article about girls that he mentioned-

In today's NYT
snip>
The perils and pressures bearing on the lives of teenage girls here offer a snapshot of the changes bedeviling Iraq. In the past several months, the new access to satellite dishes, Internet cafes and cellphones has given these young women a new window on the outside world. But creeping religious conservatism, lawlessness and economic uncertainty have also been conspiring against them in peculiar ways.

Parents are so rattled by reports of rapes and kidnappings that they keep their girls under closer watch than ever. Girls accustomed to pool outings and piano lessons during the crushingly hot summer vacation months are instead locked up at home. They quarrel with their mothers; they sleep too much; they grow cranky and dejected from mind-numbing boredom.

During the school year, young men claiming to represent new religious groups arrived at some schools, demanding that girls' heads be covered or long-sleeved shirts be required. Not surprisingly, an increasing number of the girls seem to be covering their heads — as much out of fear as out of newfound conviction. Some have stopped going to school altogether, as much because of the threat of violence as because of the economic hardships facing their families. In Yosor's school, for example, 700 girls registered for classes this past year, compared with 850 the previous year.

What long-term effect any of this will have remains to be seen. In a country that was once singular in the Arab world for its ranks of educated, professional women, it is impossible to tell whether the fate of today's teenage girls will be any different from that of their mothers.

http://nytimes.com/2004/06/27/international/middleeast/27GIRL.html

[Khephra]

28. It was a bit of everything...war, Kerry, swearing....

I'll be sure to post the transcript here in GD once it's posted at CNN...unless someone beats me to it, of course.

[Cheswick2.0]

32. Thanks Keph

I hope your hands feel better.

[Khephra]

34. Thanks! It happens all the time these days so I'm used to it

I'm getting old, damn it! ;-)

[Fleshdancer]

17. damn it! I canceled my cable 2 weeks ago...I need details!

please please please!

I love Dean.

[Khephra]

19. I'd type more, but I'm having joint troubles today

I'll post the transcript later on today when it goes up on the CNN site.

[LittleApple81]

23. I think that is the best approach. I am sorry about your joints. Hope you

feel better soon!

[Khephra]

29. Thanks!

:loveya:

[Rose Siding]

31. He said Bush is at the NATO summit because

he needs some good news- says all the 'new' agreements are things that NATO is already doing.

I think that's why he was on- to comment on that- that's how Wolfe started the interview. Dean just ennumerated some of the bad news lately and basically said the trip is for looks.

[Rose Siding]

20. Right wing is hypocritical

If they don't want 'bad' language on the radio, don't use it on the Senate floor.

[Khephra]

21. I was LMAO when Dean said that!

:evilgrin:

Evil! Evil!

[Cheswick2.0]

26. I love that man!

Ha ha ha!

The people are better off in Iraq without Saddam is the only argument they have left.

[cthrumatrix]

30. as usual...Dean was "right on"....

[Cha]

37. This is great! Thank you

dick, for loosin' it.. Howard Stern will pick up on this.}(

[Egnever]

35. Damn it!

This man should be our nominee I am so pissed off at the dem party for alowing this man to be demonized.

[LittleApple81]

36. Remind me again? WHY DIDN'T WE SELECT DEAN as the candidate?

I support Kerry now because I DON'T WANT BUSH. But Dean's fall from even the top candidates during the primary was absolutely astonishing to me. Were the DLC people afraid of his frankness and frontal attack of Bush*'s policies?
HE IS ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC. Did not let Leslie get away with anything, not even the POLLS! BWAHAHAHAHAHA!

[Skip Intro]

49. Something about "electability"

But that was a long time ago in a place far, far away, or so it seems.

(And I'm fully behind Kerry now)

[Egnever]

51. It makes me so angry when i think about it

Kerry wins because bush has to go. What a piss poor reason for electing someone. Dean now is out of the race yet still the truth comes from him. What do those that say he was faking it have to say now when he stands nothing personal to gain from what he says yet he still is on message?

This man could have changed the democratic party into something to be proud of once again. I guess he is still working for it in his own way with the local elections he is working to support. But my god the difference he could have made in this country given the chance to do so.

It makes me want to weep.

[LittleApple81]

38. Kissinger: eeewwww.. he looks like a sick toad...Evil drips from every

pore... And I speak with an accent... but my accent is nice... his is abhorrent. It sounds like he is faking speech.

[Khephra]

41. There are actually several writers who have sworn that Kissinger

occasionally looses his accent during moments of shock or surprise.

[thebigidea]

45. I can't look at him without picturing Eugene Levy playing a drunk Henry

[LittleApple81]

39. Brezinski (sp): Iraqis HATE the occupation. Repeat: HATE the occupation!

Finally, people speaking out.

[LittleApple81]

42. Sometime next year we should be leaving Iraq. This will give

Iraq the impetus to control its own destiny (or something like this).

[LittleApple81]

44. Brezinski: are we waiting until Syria and Iran stop acting up? We cannot

afford to do this and get bogged down forever.

[NYCGirl]

40. Dean is getting so much better at dealing with the talking heads!

He was right on top of everything, and didn't let Blitzer get away with any crap! Even called him on his slippery wording when Blitzer tried to twist his statements.

I love the good doctor!

[LittleApple81]

43. Kissinger: Disagrees with Brezinski: we cannot set a time to leave

Iraq. WHO IS HE TO TALK? DOES HE WANT TO KILL AS MANY BROWN SKINNED PEOPLE AND DESTABILIZE AS MANY COUNTRIES AS HE DID WITH VIETNAM? And I am not even referring to AMERICAN SOLDIERS WHO DIED.
EEEEEEWWWWWW EEEEEEWWWWWWW

[Khephra]

46. Kissinger is becoming more and more like Jabba the Hut with each

passing day.

[LittleApple81]

47. WHY DO WE GIVE CREDENCE TO WAR CRIMINALS LIKE KISSINGER!

He was behind the bombing of Cambodia and directly responsible for the killing fields that ensued in that country. Besides American soldiers, Vietnamese innocent people, etc. etc. etc.
WE SHOULD SEND HIM UNARMED TO IRAQ and drop him in the most central location of Baghdad!

[LittleApple81]

48. WHY DO WE GIVE CREDENCE TO WAR CRIMINALS LIKE KISSINGER!

He was behind the bombing of Cambodia and directly responsible for the killing fields that ensued in that country. Besides American soldiers, Vietnamese innocent people, etc. etc. etc.
WE SHOULD SEND HIM UNARMED TO IRAQ and drop him in the most central location of Baghdad!

[Cheswick2.0]

50. Dean Rocks

[LittleApple81]

52. Brezinski took Kissinger to task: the same argument Kissinger made

during the Vietnam war.
He never used the light at the end of the tunnel argument.
EEEEEEWWWWWW cannot even type his words... sorry.

[LittleApple81]

53. Kissinger is BLAMING the anti-war movement during Vietnam war

as the reason that his approach for that war was never carried out, therefore we could not see if it would succeed.

[LittleApple81]

54. Showing Gore's statement. Brzezinski says that getting Saddam out

COST too much. The price was too high. We need a broader strategy instead of saying we are going to stay indefinitely.

[LittleApple81]

55. That poll: who should have custody of Saddam? Either way he is a dead man

walking. The refinement of the public torture would be the only difference in my opinion.
Saddam is a despicable human being... but we did help keep him in power for a long time, so we must shoulder some of the guilt.

[madfloridian]

56. One thing Dean said was very important:

He was in London recently. He said that many of the business community who usually stood with Republicans were hoping Kerry won this time.

He really ripped into Bush on the BBC, too. Also in the Financial Times.

[madfloridian]

57. Good to see Dean get credit in this USA article.

For too long they have ignored how early he spoke out. This is good.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-06-27-dean-war_x.htm

SNIP..."Dean: Most Americans now say U.S. war in Iraq isn't worth fighting
WASHINGTON (AP) — Howard Dean sounded like he had been vindicated on Sunday when he noted that most Americans now agree that the United States should not have invaded Iraq. It was a position that fueled his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, and earned Dean much criticism in the process."

SNIP.. "After being castigated by both Democrats and Republicans for a while, now the majority of Americans agree with me this was a mistake," the one-time Democratic front-runner said on CNN's Late Edition.."