Reply #10: yeah, right [View All]

notice Dean's comment: "I think he's done a good job on the war on terrorism."

note the past tense - 'done'. meaning, in the past, not 'bush will continue to do a good job 9 months from now even if he invades iraq'.

"But there's a second, more troubling interpretation, which is that Dean shifted to a strong anti-war position not because of Bush's Iraq actions, but because he saw that that was where the Democratic party's activist base wanted him to go."

yeah, that must be it - obviously, the more complicated reason with a total lack of any support at all, that must be the truth. he couldn't possibly have been talking about the pre-Iraq WoT, when he was interviewed in 6/2002.

hell, last June i was worried about the war in Iraq, but at that time i really didn't think it was going to happen. i figured bush would cool his heels once a total lack of WMD evidence became apparent. yeah, i was wrong, but my lack of debate on the subject of a possible pre-emptive strike didn't mean i supported it.