On Fox: Dean Supports Aggressive, Interventionist Military Policy. OKaay!

Dean Advisor on Fox saying that Dean can campaign south and in the Midwest because he is a fiscal conservative and supports an aggressive, robust and interventionist military policy. He supported the Gulf War, called for unilateral intervention in Bosnia and Kosovo, and supported the war in Afghanistan.

So now we know. Wish they had put that out when they were co-opting our anti-war movement

he favours a model close to Clinton's for intervention.

Dean is no Anti-Warrior.

I did. Then again, I researched the candidates so I knew this real early on.

he is anti-war without justification?


Dean has pointed out his support for a strong military and things like the first Iraq war, Afghanistan, and kosovo in just about every speech where he addressed military issues for the last 6 months.

Dean spoke out against the Iraqi war because he thought it was the wrong war at the wrong time.

People here get so mad at the ridiculous RW media, but then they turn around and believe the media when they say Dean is "anti-war".

All you have to do to get the facts on this is *gasp* research a little. Heaven forbid anyone go to the Dean website to read his positions rather than rely on CNN, FAUX, MSNBC, etc...

:wtf:

while John Kerry was trying to expose them.

Kerry supports Plan Colombia, and he supported our nasty dirty wars in El Salvador, Guatemala, etc.

Did Kerry ever speak out against the US-backed coup against President Chavez in Venezuela?

He only become Gov of Vermont in 90 or 91.


Talk about desperation.

First I've heard about it, blm.

and Dean couldn't take a stand against Reagan and Bush's actions? Instead he's trying to make himself sound hawkish enough to mainstream America.



"Such sentiments have been misinterpreted by assorted Beltway savants as a leftward lurch by Democratic Party activists; it seems more a reaction to the rightward lurch of the Republicans. Dean, who has been mischaracterized as the reincarnation of George McGovern, is certainly no traditional liberal or even a traditional dove. "I told the peace people not to fall in love with me," he told me over breakfast in Manchester, N.H., last week. He said he had opposed Vietnam, but he had supported the first Gulf War, the interventions in Bosnia and Kosovo, and the war in Afghanistan. In the 1980s he had "mixed feelings" about Ronald Reagan's support for the contras in Nicaragua and opposed a unilateral nuclear freeze. "I'm not a pacifist. I believe there are times when pre-emptive force is justified, but there has to be an immediate threat, and there just wasn't in this case."

http://www.time.com/time/columnist/klein/article/0,9565,464429,00.html

That seems to matter the most to me

That was unilateral with Bush making the final determination. The only added step was that Bush had to write a letter to the Speaker of the House and the pres pro tem of the Senate.

He has been able to obscure that small difference because most of the press were too lazy to notice that back in the fall of 2002, Dean said he would vote for Biden-Lugar.

as to what was really going on with the republican mercenaries in central america. Kerry probably had more info into the truth at that time because of his veteran connections.

The only way anyone could have mixed feelings about it now is if they supported it then. Dean was always a HAWK.

Since he wasn't, and I knew from the beginning because I actually read his positions and listened to him talk, I have no problem supporting him.

Being against Bush's stupid Iraq war is just common sense.

I think I've heard him say it about 300 times.

Dean agrees with you.

:eyes: and that's why he said "If you're looking for an anti-war candidate, I'm not your man".

It was a line in his stump speech last summer. Not exactly agreeing with everyone's stance. Nice try though.

whether it is anti-war or pro-war -- whatever issue, you can find times where Dean was for it, times where he was against it.


Here's another good example, talking about the Israel/Palestine issue:

"We have to stop terrorism before peace negotiations"
http://www.forward.com/issues/2002/02.11.22/news3.html

said he didn't "believe stopping the terror has to be a prerequisite for talking."
http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/09/10/elec04.prez.dean.mideast

My issue with him is he is no less a politician than the rest, but claims he isn't.

Same message from the very start.

a little research goes a looooong way.

Let's intervene when the world agrees with us though...

He asks who, why, where and when.

He was against the Iraq war because these question were
not answered fully or truthfully.

of Dean's position on various issues is from corporate media sound bites taken out of contest, as this past week so dramatically proved. Even though I had read info on the website and was impressed, I really was not convinced until I was able to watch him, unedited, on cspan and compare him with the other unedited candidates on an equal footing. And now I am a diehard supporter. I am so grateful to cspan - that is a real tool of democracy in action. Too bad it is not available to more people in this country. For those that can access it, too many people are working too hard to have much time to watch.

n/t

position just as much as the IWR.