Reply #4: What he said about women.....very thoughtful, concerned, worried. [View All]

Dr. HOWARD DEAN (Democrat, Former Governor, Vermont; Chairman, Democratic
National Committee): Well, I think, first of all, we need a plan. The saddest article, in a series
of very sad articles about people losing their lives--the saddest article I saw was in The
Washington Post this morning, talking about the insiders of the administration saying, `Well,
now we misjudged. We really can't achieve any of the things--or many of the things we said
that we were going to achieve when we went.' Eighteen hundred and fifty Americans lose their
lives because the president can't figure out what he's going to do, had no plan when we got
there and has not plan when we get out.
First thing we need to do have a plan for leaving. And the second thing we need to do is to
make sure that to the best of our ability we can influence the writing of the constitution. It
looks like today, and this could change--as of today, it looks like women will be worse off in Iraq
than they were when Saddam Hussein was president of Iraq. That's a pretty sad commentary
on this administration's ability to do anything right"

Talk in between.

SCHIEFFER: Should we leave now?

Dr. DEAN: I think that's going to be very problematic. I mean, I think we've gotten in there,
we've made a huge mess in there, we've created a terrorist danger for the United States where
one did not exist before. But to pull out before they even have a chance to write their
constitution I think is wrong. But I do think that time is coming very quickly. And if it turns
out that this constitution really does take away the rights that women have enjoyed in Iraq
before, then I can't imagine why we're there."