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Re: OT Dean says we will lose Iraq. Great move Dean....the end of the Democrats!
In article <7vkbp1h8ihu042jm3if5661jjbhep1bgh5@4ax.com>,
Scott in Florida <JustAsk@Florida.com> wrote:
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> [url]http://www.woai.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=C36A87B9-63A0-4CDE-AA91-B[/url]
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> Dean: US Won't Win in Iraq
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> LAST UPDATE: 12/6/2005 6:20:37 AM
> Posted By: Jim Forsyth
> This story is available on your cell phone at mobile.woai.com.
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> (SAN ANTONIO) -- Saying the "idea that we're going to win the war in
> Iraq is an idea which is just plain wrong," Democratic National
> Chairman Howard Dean predicted today that the Democratic Party will
> come together on a proposal to withdraw National Guard and Reserve
> troops immediately, and all US forces within two years.
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> Dean made his comments in an interview on WOAI Radio in San Antonio.
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> Click here to listen to the complete interview.
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> "I've seen this before in my life. This is the same situation we had
> in Vietnam. Everybody then kept saying, 'just another year, just stay
> the course, we'll have a victory.' Well, we didn't have a victory, and
> this policy cost the lives of an additional 25,000 troops because we
> were too stubborn to recognize what was happening."
>
> Dean says the Democrat position on the war is 'coalescing,' and is
> likely to include several proposals.
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> "I think we need a strategic redeployment over a period of two years,"
> Dean said. "Bring the 80,000 National Guard and Reserve troops home
> immediately. They don't belong in a conflict like this anyway. We
> ought to have a redeployment to Afghanistan of 20,000 troops, we don't
> have enough troops to do the job there and its a place where we are
> welcome. And we need a force in the Middle East, not in Iraq but in a
> friendly neighboring country to fight (terrorist leader Musab)
> Zarqawi, who came to Iraq after this invasion. We've got to get the
> target off the backs of American troops.
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> Dean didn't specify which country the US forces would deploy to, but
> he said he would like to see the entire process completed within two
> years. He said the Democrat proposal is not a 'withdrawal,' but rather
> a 'strategic redeployment' of U.S. forces.
>
> "The White House wants us to have a permanent commitment to Iraq. This
> is an Iraqi problem. President Bush got rid of Saddam Hussein and that
> was a great thing, but that could have been done in a very different
> way. But now that we're there we need to figure out how to leave. 80%
> of Iraqis want us to leave, and it's their country."
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> Dean also compared the controversy over pre-war intelligence to the
> Watergate scandal which brought down Richard Nixon's presidency in
> 1974.
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> "What we see today is very much like what was going in Watergate,"
> Dean said. "It turns out there is a lot of good evidence that
> President Bush did not tell the truth when he was asking Congress for
> the power to go to war. The President said last week that Congress saw
> the same intelligence that he did in making the decision to go to war,
> and that is flat out wrong. The President withheld some intelligence
> from the Senate Intelligence Committee. He withheld the report from
> the CIA that in fact there was no evidence of weapons of mass
> destruction (in Iraq), that they did not have a nuclear program. They
> (the White House) selectively gave intelligence to the United States
> Senate and the United States Congress and got them to give the go
> ahead to attack these people."[/color]
If the democrate party were half smart they'd dump this jackass before
it's way too late. Like, lets shutoff the lights now and at least save
some electricity.
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