"the president desperately needed some positive news" Dean on handover.

[madfloridian]

Here is the transcript from interview with Dean on Sunday's Late Edition.
http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0406/27/le.00.html
SNIP..."This looks like progress is being made. What do you say?

DEAN: {b]I think it's mostly nonsense. I'm glad that we're making a deal, but I think it's mostly the president desperately needed some positive news to come out. And we're already getting those police officers trained. NATO countries already are training the police officers. So I don't see much coming out of this.

(He discusses how women are losing their rights.)

SNIP..."So I think an on-paper smile and shake the hands of all these guys in suits in Istanbul is not going to improve the situation for ordinary Iraqis on the ground.

BLITZER: Well, there was a new U.N. Security Council resolution that was unanimously passed. It looks like President Bush is clearly getting greater international support, albeit probably not what he would like.

DEAN: Actually, I think that's a good thing, the U.N. resolution. And I was very pleased to see that the president had to adopt a Democratic position in order to get the resolution, which is essentially to turn over real sovereignty to the Iraqis. He had a very different position going into that.

So perhaps after this year-long experience and 850 brave Americans killed, the president's finally learned that you ought to listen to other countries once in a while, and you ought to listen to our own military once in a while before you go sending Americans to fight.

[Melodybe]

1. I will always love Howard Dean, always honest and correct.

Thanks for posting

[Cha]

2. Snerk snerk to you bliztoid!

"And I was very pleased to see that the president had to adopt a Democratic position in order to get the resolution, which is essentially to turn over real sovereignty to the Iraqis. He had a very different position going into that."

Things that make bliztie cringe.

Like Shoshanna Johnson said..."It wasn't worth my friends getting killed"!

[janx]

3. Wow. That last comment...n/t

[Larkspur]

6. The problem with that line is that Iraqi sovereignty in practice is

a fraud.

We are still keeping over 130,000 troops there and have installed our puppets with an ill-equiped police force. Basically, Bush is hoping for a homegrown dictator, a la Shah of Iran, that he can control.

The Brits did this scheme in Iraq starting in the 1920's and in the end -- after 25 years -- the Brits were forced out.

[janx]

7. Right--but I was referring to the very last line quoted, about

the dead soldiers. And there are more coming.

[democratreformed]

4. Kudos to Dr. Dean

for telling it straight!

[madfloridian]

5. And about Cheney's "f" bomb on the senate floor.....

SNIP..."BLITZER: What do you make of the -- obviously, the uproar that's developed in recent days over Vice President Cheney's using the F-word in attacking Senator Patrick Leahy, your fellow Vermonter, on the floor of the Senate?

DEAN: Well, I find it amusing that the Republicans, having condemned bad language and behavior on television and in the radio, are now backpedaling away, when the vice president used some of that language himself.

I think that the biggest problem that the right wing has is that they're so hypocritical all the time. They say one thing, but when it's one of their own, they don't condemn it.

You know, I was pretty open about condemning Democrats for doing things I didn't think they ought to be doing, and I'm still very willing to do that. I think the Republicans ought to just bite the bullet and say, you know, if they don't want to use that kind of bad language, then the vice president of the United States ought not to be using it on the Senate floor either."

[Cha]

9. Good answer on cheney and the

F bomb on the Senate floor..addressing Senator Pat Leahy ..to go F**k himself!

The sheer hypocricy is madness. I don't think ol' brains cheney himself realizes what a pandora's box he's released with that "letting off steam" in the Senate building.

Anytime anyone lets off steam ..it will be okay because dick did it first.

[janx]

10. When I heard Blitzer getting into this, I paid close attention to

Dean's face. You could see his eyes light up. He seemed...delighted at the question!

[spooky3]

8. Home run!

[mzmolly]

11. Caught the interview. He was bold and beautiful as usual.

:)

[UrbScotty]

12. No wonder he was my top pick in the primaries. YEARGH!

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