Gov. Howard Dean Bashes Bush For Deaths in Iraq

Dean blasts Bush over American losses in Iraq
by pcapone http://www.dailykos.com
Thu Apr 1st, 2004 at 19:03:34 GMT

Dean blasts Bush over American losses in Iraq

WASHINGTON - President Bush's credibility is the top issue in the presidential campaign, more important than jobs, the economy and health care, now that a former administration official says the president didn't take the terrorism threat seriously enough before Sept. 11, 2001, one-time Democratic presidential hopeful Howard Dean said Wednesday. Dean told a gathering of progressive Democrats that Bush failed to act on warnings from Richard Clarke, then Bush's counterterrorism chief, that al-Qaeda posed a threat to the United States.

Dean, a former Vermont governor and harsh critic of the Iraq war, blamed Bush for the hundreds of U.S. soldiers killed and the thousands wounded in the Iraq war.

"That is the legacy of this president who did not tell the truth to the American people," he told about 150 people at the annual dinner for 21st Century Democrats, a political action committee that places activists on progressive campaigns.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/20040331-1958-dean.html

I am amazed at how much play Dean's speech got, it was in USA Today and in news papers all across the nation. Just checking google there were a hell of alot of media sources picking it up.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/4/1/19334/43247

I am glad it got the coverage it did. I am still trying to find out if C-Span covered the dinner. We wrote them, but no one seems to know if they were there.

I miss the idea that Dean could have been the nominee.

But, I'll shut up

I think it will bring a lot of head-slapping regret for January and February, and for what might have been.

what being a Dem is all about.

It sank quickly, but what an honor.
I hate to kick my own post, but is an honor to be a Rockefeller "fellow."

Keep it up Dean, keep it up Kucinich!!

Thank you, for this, Slinkerwink!

"Democrats need to "focus their message in a laser-like way," he said, to oust the Bush administration.

"These are people who belong in Crawford, Texas, and not in the nation's capital," he said."

I love the way Dean lumps all of the bushcon together with bush in sending them ALL back to crawford.

trying to make this 9/11 Commission into a political circus. We know that it is but for him to say things like Dean just did would have all the attention focused on Bush yelling back at him. He wants the stuff that's swirling around this thing to be out in public and not have it just pinned, very easily, by the repukes as a partisan thing. With nobody to point to to distract, they are front and center with their bare asses hanging out. Thus, I wouldn't be surprised if the Dems are trying to have Dean and a few others keep the rhetoric going but keep Kerry clean.

;-)

Nice to see Dean out there, still speaking the truth (whether people like it or not).

hundreds of our men and women and the injuries of thousands? Seems to me like no one else wants to hold Bush accountable.

Thank goodness for Howard Dean.

Others may be, but I have not heard them.

:kick:

RL

Oh....and :kick: