Reply #24: Yes you are [View All]

He doesn't go back and forth on the issue. I think that I've shown that he was solidly opposed to this adventure and tried to do everything he could to prevent it.

It's pretty obvious that Dean would have voted no. Look at these statements from just before the IWR vote. He was trying to tell the other Dems to vote no on it. Click on the link and read the statements from other Dems. You could tell which way they were about to vote from their statements.

Bush is a problem for America. But, Iraq is now also a problem for America.

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Sunday, October 6, 2002; Page A12
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Speaking at a fundraising dinner filled with activists wary about going to war again in the Persian Gulf again, Sens. John F. Kerry (Mass.) and John Edwards (N.C.), and Vermont Gov. Howard Dean highlight the spectrum of opinion within the Democratic Party as lawmakers in Washington prepare to vote on a resolution authorizing war.
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Dean, whose advocacy of liberal domestic policies has struck a chord among grass-roots activists here, offered the sharpest dissent. He contended that Bush has yet to make a compelling case to justify going to war.

"The greatest fear I have about Iraq is not just that we will engage in unwise conduct and send our children to die without having an adequate explanation from the president of the United States," he said. "The greater fear I have is the president has never said what the truth is, which is if we go into Iraq we will be there for 10 years to build that democracy and the president must tell us that before we go."
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http://www.dre-mfa.gov.ir/eng/iraq/iraqanalysis_27.html