Remember when Saddam's capture would make troops safe?

BillZBubb

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Sun May-02-04 04:43 PM
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Remember when Saddam's capture would make troops safe?

Bush*, the wingnuts and the whore media were pumping that one big time. And Dean and other people with brains said, wait a minute, Saddam's capture won't change anything.

How come no one is bringing this up now, after the "safe" April the troops have enjoyed? I guess the complicit media has already moved on to peddle more Bushit. The befuddled public can't even remember back a few months. Sad times.

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Waverley_Hills_Hiker

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Sun May-02-04 04:46 PM
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1. It would be neet if we had a collection of quotes, clips,

..snips of the spin at that time, esp. if it was from the Adminstration.

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dsc

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Sun May-02-04 04:49 PM
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2. because one of the people who bitterly criticised Dean for saying that

was Kerry.

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madfloridian

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Sun May-02-04 05:13 PM
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4. Yes, here are Kerry's remarks.

SNIP..."Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry has seized on Saddam Hussein's capture as an opening to assert his foreign policy credentials over those of his Democratic rivals, especially Howard Dean.

Kerry stepped up his attack on Dean on Tuesday, arguing that the former Vermont governor is unfit to be president because he dismissed Saddam's capture Saturday as unlikely to improve U.S. safety.

"Those who believe today that we are not safer with his capture don't have the judgment to be president or the credibility to be president of the United States," Kerry said in a speech at Drake University in Des Moines.
http://desmoinesregister.com/news/stories/c4789004/23037508.html

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Jacobin

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Sun May-02-04 05:12 PM
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3. Remember when Holy Joe blasted Howard Dean for saying

capturing Saddam would NOT make things safer?

And Kerry jumped him too.

:-(

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Minstrel Boy

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Sun May-02-04 05:20 PM
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5. And Dean will never be forgiven by some for

having been right.

Remember the argument that a Dean candidacy would be a disaster, because Iraq was likely to be stabilized, and a Bush success story, by Nov 2004?

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dsc

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Sun May-02-04 05:27 PM
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6. There is always the possibility

the war will turn around, though that is very unlikely now, but I think we will lose if that happens no matter what.

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DrWeird

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Sun May-02-04 05:29 PM
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7. A dozen dead US troops, couple hundred dead Iraqi troops

and maybe fifty dead Iraqi civilians.

According to one prewar prediction. And this from a DUer.

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