Clintonesque Dean seizes the moment

An obscure ex-governor from a tiny rural state emerges from the political wilderness to grab the Democratic presidential nomination.

Improbable? Bill Clinton did it in 1992, going on to defeat a U.S. president named George Bush.

Now, Clinton protégé Howard Dean — antiwar hero, former Vermont governor and doctor — has stepped out in front of a lacklustre pack of hopefuls in the race to unseat Mr. Bush's son, the current president.

So far, Dr. Dean is beating his better-known rivals — in the polls, in the race for campaign cash, in media attention and apparently in the hearts of many Democrats.

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Dean should nationaly stand up and say 'I'm anti-lying not anti-war. War is sometimes justified. Bush has lead America into a lie.' From his memory not from a teleprompter. He should hold up a Newsweek or Wall Street Journal and say, 'I never said this, why was it written to mislead the American people? Let's make this clear right now, I am NOT anti war. I would defend our country with all military possible IF there is a true threat to our nation. The next time words like this are printed, mark that media source and don't trust what they publish in the futute.' end speech.

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very well put

I've been to 2 Dean rallies and in both he clarifies his reasons for opposing the Iraq War and asserts that he won't hestitate to use our military but only if that is the last or only choice to resolving a problem. Dean emphasizes restoring morality into our foreign policy.

Dean also has said at rallies I have seen on c-span that he does not believe in just pulling out now that we are there. A speaker on c-span today (from workerassestsradio.com) made sense when she said that we cannot just abandon a country that we have invaded and occupied; it is against the Geneva Convention. Of course half the things Bush is doing now in Iraq is anti-GC.

"As Commander in Chief I will not hesitate to send American troops anywhere in the world to defend American lives. But I will not send our sons and daughters, our brothers and sisters, across the world to die without telling the American people the TRUTH about why they are there."