DEAN CALLS FOR RESIGNATIONS OF ADMIN OFFICIALS WHO MISLED NATION

Wednesday July 23, 2003
By: Press Office

'Those who included this faulty information...know who they are' (July 23, 2003)

PORTSMOUTH, N.H.--Governor Howard Dean, M.D. made the following statement regarding today's developments on the Iraq situation: "Last week, when the nation was focused on the sixteen words included in the President's State of the Union address, I said that the issue raised sixteen important questions about the Iraq matter. Today, as more senior officials in the Bush White House have taken responsibility for including the discredited Niger uranium sentence in the President's State of the Union address, we are one step closer to understanding how those sixteen words came to be. But the sixteen questions still remain unanswered.

"I call on those who misled the President to resign immediately. It is unacceptable for anyone who misled the President on an issue as significant as a rationale for war to continue to retain a post in government. What is clear is that this President and his Administration misled the American people about the cause for war and did so in the solemn forum of the State of the Union address. Not only have the lives of many U.S. service men and women been lost as a result of that questionable rush to war, but the Administration has been allowed to establish a dangerous precedent for unilateral, preemptive war at the President's sole discretion.

"It remains to be seen whether the President himself was misled, whether those around him intentionally kept the information from him, or whether the President knowingly misled the American people. I sincerely hope that the latter is not the case. We do know this: officials in the Vice President's office, the Defense Department, the State Department and the White House had reason to know that there were significant doubts not only about the Niger evidence, but about many elements of the case for war.

"Let me reiterate what I have said now many times before: those who included this faulty information in the President's address know who they are and should resign immediately. There is no place for them in a government that prizes honor and integrity.

"Furthermore, I urge the White House to answer the sixteen questions I presented last week so that the American people can learn the truth and can retain confidence in their government. Finally, because the story line continues to change from day to day on this matter, I once again call for an independent, bipartisan commission to investigate these serious allegations."

http://www.deanforamerica.com/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=7081&news_iv_ctrl=1301

The others are so "mealy-mouthed" and political.

But since GWB knew he was lying and allowed them to take the fall for him, he can't fire them. They might talk.

By the way I agree with the Doctor.

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does not believe in taking his foot off the gas when it comes to attacking the Whitehouse.

Thank you Dr. Dean as you speak for me....

Dean 2004

Remember when Bush insisted on including that in his speech against the advice of his advisors?

Keep bombarding the ramparts.

Go get'em Dr. D!

I'M SURE WE WILL NOTICE IT. THANK YOU.

That's my standard way of doing it. You'll notice that's how it's written on the site. I"m doing this while working, so I don't have time to worry about caps or not in cutting and pasting.

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You're the best, Zidzi!

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:loveya: Back at cha! Just got back from running my 4 miles! Feeling much spunkier!

Clinton cut Dean's legs off last night with the Larry King phone call. It announces how the people who pull the strings at the DNC/DLC have no use for a candidate such as he.

Save our breath, I mean. But let's not allow that to happen.

Dean is a candidate whose success is dependent upon the people, as it should be.

I happened to catch Clinton speaking in front of some students on C-Span, before this thing broke wide open, and he was defending "bad intelligence" as the blanket excuse.

If it is now revealed that Clinton was the recipient of "bad intelligence", as well, he is in the difficult position of having to discredit his own decisions, and by extention can't blame Bush, even though the Bush cabal may have knowingly exploited "bad intelligence". In order to excuse his own mistake, he has to excuse Bush.

But why should it stop Dean?

And we already knew the dlc/dnc has no use for an Honest candidate like Howard Dean!

You win my heart, you win win my vote, the only other person I could even think about right is Wesley Clark. I would love to see both of lthem in the White House in 04.

No more boat races for junior and his ugly ugly administration.

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You've got the balls and the integrity and you've got my vote.

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And also good for us! Dean has the voice and isn't afraid to use it!

The thing I love about Dean is his measured approach to things. I am astonished to find that that he says things that I have already thought or said. When this first came up, I said that there were 3 possibilities exactly as Dean states here.
"It remains to be seen whether the President himself was misled, whether those around him intentionally kept the information from him, or whether the President knowingly misled the American people."
Ultimately what it comes down to is someone else is controlling this presidency, * is completely incompetent, or he told a deliberate opportunistic lie.
Dean is playing it perfectly by not being reactionary and accusing everyone of telling lies and demanding impeachment. He is leading a push to get to the bottom of this with careful considered reasoning. He's a scientist at heart. My kind of guy!