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Dean Says America Not Safer After Capture

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-12-16 00:01|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "Because there are so many of them, we shouldn't go after any of them!"

Are you sure Dean isn't running for the EU's presidency? He's a perfect fit for them.

Posted by Rafael 2003-12-16 12:12:14 AM|| 2003-12-16 12:12:14 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Joe Liebermann bitch-slapped Dean yesterday and apparently it didn't faze either Dean or his supporters. While I'm planning right now to vote for GWB in the fall, I'd be happy to give Joe money on the condition that makes a TV ad that repeats the "spider hole of denial" claim. And runs it in New Hampshire. Frequently.

Posted by Steve White 2003-12-16 12:48:01 AM|| 2003-12-16 12:48:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 No, Howard. You'll meet "frightful people" at those wine and cheese fundraisers that your beautiful people supporters haunt. Saddam's a little more up the scale from frightful. Might even be above "dastardly" or "ruffian".
What a worthless puke you are, Howard.

Posted by tu3031 2003-12-16 1:09:23 AM|| 2003-12-16 1:09:23 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Yes! I thought ol' Howie would take this opportunity to tack center already. Instead he seals his own doom.

Posted by someone 2003-12-16 2:49:38 AM|| 2003-12-16 2:49:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Up until now, I may have disagreed with Gov. Dean on many, many things, but I didn't think he was an idiot.

Posted by Patrick Phillips 2003-12-16 7:33:33 AM|| 2003-12-16 7:33:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 The capture of Saddam posed a political problem for Dean...

Yes, each success we experience will set the Democrats back. This speaks volumes: In order for them to do well, America needs to fail.

Posted by Dragon Fly 2003-12-16 7:34:05 AM|| 2003-12-16 7:34:05 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Rafael -- All the Democrats are running for the EU presidency. Look at how often they say we should bow to France's demands.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2003-12-16 7:44:33 AM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/] 2003-12-16 7:44:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 "Spider hole of denial". That's a great zinger. Go, Joe, Go.

Posted by ColoradoConservative 2003-12-16 8:26:30 AM|| 2003-12-16 8:26:30 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 WTF - "frightful"!? What the f*** kind of dream world is Dean living in? He makes Jimma Carta sound like a stud.

Posted by Spot 2003-12-16 8:37:38 AM|| 2003-12-16 8:37:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 Rafael, Sunday CNN Wolf Blitzer asked Joe Biden what he meant by a legitimate coalition, and Joe's answer was simply "must include France." No other qualifications.

Posted by john 2003-12-16 10:06:37 AM|| 2003-12-16 10:06:37 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 Sorry. I went back to the CNN transcript for Biden's exact quote:

"Unless we get the French and the Germans in, we will not be perceived as having Europe in. And if that doesn't happen, we won't get the Arabs in."

The message was not quite what I thought I heard.

Posted by john 2003-12-16 10:17:57 AM|| 2003-12-16 10:17:57 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 what's that flushing sound? Could it be the sound of Dean's career?

Posted by B 2003-12-16 10:40:01 AM|| 2003-12-16 10:40:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#13 MSNBC has the best Dean quote:
Dean said he âwould not have hesitatedâ to launch an attack on Iraq âhad the United Nations given us permission and asked us to be part of a multilateral force.â

Keep digging, Howard.

Posted by Steve 2003-12-16 11:10:53 AM|| 2003-12-16 11:10:53 AM|| Front Page Top

#14 john -- Doesn't seem much better. I guess England, Spain, Italy, Poland, Estonia, and a host of others aren't European enough.

I'm begining to think that Kerry's not the only "Frenchman" in the Democrat party.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2003-12-16 11:12:53 AM|| [http://www.kloognome.com] 2003-12-16 11:12:53 AM|| Front Page Top

#15 Dean's campaign might not be safer but Amercia is. How many States can Dean lose?

Posted by Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter) 2003-12-16 11:38:03 AM|| 2003-12-16 11:38:03 AM|| Front Page Top

#16 How many states did Reagan win?

Posted by True German Ally 2003-12-16 1:50:04 PM|| 2003-12-16 1:50:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 Anti-war candidate Howard Dean said Monday "the capture of Saddam has not made America safer," directly contradicting President Bush and drawing the wrath of two Democratic presidential rivals.

There's a bigger picture to be considered, and Dean is either unwilling or incapable of putting this event into its appropriate place in the puzzle.

"had the United Nations given us permission.."

Well that rules Dean out for President. What's needed is a leader, not a follower.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2003-12-16 3:14:23 PM|| 2003-12-16 3:14:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 I've always found Dean scary, but this is even worse--he's flat out lying to the American people.
What kills me about the Dims, Dean especially, is that they pay so much homage to the UN, then when we and President Bush remind them that their precious UN passed 17 resolutions against Saddam and that Bush tried for months to get an 18th authorizing them to actually do something about it, they balked and chose "irrelevancy."
By the obstructionism of the weasel powers, the Civilized World was forced to go outside of the UN and deal with Saddam's threat as part of a "unilateral" Coalition.
Dean and the other Ninecompoops also forget that the UN was completely willing to let Saddam have a pass (I suppose
indefinitely) until President Bush MADE it an issue!

Posted by Jennie Taliaferro 2003-12-16 3:35:02 PM|| [http://www.greatestjeneration.com] 2003-12-16 3:35:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 The picture I got when I was reading this article was the robot in "Lost in Space":
Danger, Will Robinson, Danger!!!. Dean makes about as much sense, and is about as precise.

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-12-16 3:42:29 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2003-12-16 3:42:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 "the capture of Saddam has not made America safer..."
And Dean's statements certainly don't make America safer - the opposite is far more likely, as Orson Scott Card pointed out so ably.

Dean has crossed over the line, in his bumblingly blind attempt to make himself identifiable as the mostest baddest Bush hater, and now provides true aid and comfort to our enemy. I will savor seeing him get his ass stomped in the election.

Posted by .com 2003-12-16 5:08:02 PM|| 2003-12-16 5:08:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 Danger, Will Robinson, Danger

Did you know the robot used the voice of a very young Colin Powell?

Posted by Shipman 2003-12-16 7:03:57 PM|| 2003-12-16 7:03:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#22 Stop it--SecState Powell is still in the hospital.
Yes, he plugs some happy horseshit, but I'm pretty sure that's his job, such as it is post-Henry Kissinger.
He lets President Bush, Rummy, Cheney and Wolfowitz be the bad cops.

Posted by Jennie Taliaferro 2003-12-16 8:14:19 PM|| [http://www.greatestjeneration.com] 2003-12-16 8:14:19 PM|| Front Page Top

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