Is Dean really a maverick? Is Clark's platform too ambitious? How the leading Democratic candidates rate on foreign policy
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Newsweek
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3762367/Dec. 19 - Maybe it was Saddam Hussein's capture. Or maybe it's because there's not much more than a month before the voting starts in Iowa. Either way, the Democratic pack of presidential candidates have spent the last few days sharpening their rhetoric on foreign policy--and on one bogeyman in particular. Not the former Iraqi president, but the former Vermont governor.
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"Like Dean, Clark welcomes news of Saddam's downfall but cautions that Iraq is not about to turn the corner as a result. "The entire resistance in Iraq was not run by a pathetic ex-dictator hiding in a hole," the retired general told a foreign-policy crowd in The Hague this week. His solution in Iraq is no different from his rivals: getting help from American allies. But his pitch is all the more compelling because of his experience in Kosovo.
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