amendment to the Iraq resolution that did not require regime change. Some key Dems agreed to the resolution before B-L was voted on.
http://www.cmonitor.com/stories/news/local2003/012303dean_2002.shtmlDean also criticized his opponents for voting to give Bush a "blank check" on military intervention in Iraq - and, now, changing their tune on the issue.
"Today, they're running around telling you folks they're all anti-war," he said. (Later, he acknowledged that Lieberman's vote was consistent with the senator's comparatively "hawkish" position on Iraq.) "We're never going to elect a president that does those things. If I voted for the Iraq resolution, I'd be standing in favor, supporting it right now in front of you."
Dean said he would have voted instead for the Biden-Lugar resolution, which he said supported disarming Saddam using multilateral action, and which did not call for a "regime change."
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But the Democratic candidates aren't that far apart on the Iraq issue, a professor says.
Anti-war Democrats have cheered presidential candidate Howard Dean, but some campaign observers say the former Vermont governor's position on Iraq isn't that different from the rivals he criticizes.
"The positions of the Democratic candidates are not really that far apart," said University of Iowa political science professor Peverill Squire, referring to Dean, U.S. Rep. Dick Gephardt, and Sens. John Edwards, John Kerry and Joseph Lieberman. "Most leave themselves a good deal of wiggle room."<<<<