In his latest attempt to support the troops in Iraq, Howard Dean told an interviewer that we could not win the war in Iraq:

(SAN ANTONIO) — Saying the “idea that we’re going to win the war in Iraq is an idea which is just plain wrong,” Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean predicted today that the Democratic Party will come together on a proposal to withdraw National Guard and Reserve troops immediately, and all US forces within two years.

Dean made his comments in an interview on WOAI Radio in San Antonio.

“I’ve seen this before in my life. This is the same situation we had in Vietnam. Everybody then kept saying, ‘just another year, just stay the course, we’ll have a victory.’ Well, we didn’t have a victory, and this policy cost the lives of an additional 25,000 troops because we were too stubborn to recognize what was happening.”

Unfortunately for Dean, neither the facts nor the events of the Vietnam war are on his side. As anyone who did not sleep through their history class knows, the reason the Vietnam war was lost was because politicians, not the Military, were in command of everything and micro-managed the war effort. In Iraq, President Bush presents the goal to the Military, and then he lets the Military do the job they have been training for.

“I think we need a strategic redeployment over a period of two years,” Dean said. “Bring the 80,000 National Guard and Reserve troops home immediately. They don’t belong in a conflict like this anyway. We ought to have a redeployment to Afghanistan of 20,000 troops, we don’t have enough troops to do the job there and its a place where we are welcome. And we need a force in the Middle East, not in Iraq but in a friendly neighboring country to fight (terrorist leader Musab) Zarqawi, who came to Iraq after this invasion. We’ve got to get the target off the backs of American troops.

Dean didn’t specify which country the US forces would deploy to, but he said he would like to see the entire process completed within two years. He said the Democrat proposal is not a ‘withdrawal,’ but rather a ’strategic redeployment’ of U.S. forces.

Dean’s answer is to cut and run, leaving the newly formed and still fragile Iraqi government to handle the terrorists who are killing innocent civilians. Calling the withdrawal of American troops a “strategic redeployment” is like calling a prostitute a “tension release facilitator”; it’s just making a bad thing sound more palatable.

As for removing the targets from the backs of American troops, leaving Iraq will do no such thing. Those targets were placed there a long time ago when the militant islamofascists decided that America was the “Great Satan” and that they would dedicate themselves to it’s destruction. This enemy is committed to it’s goal of converting the entire world into a Islamic theocracy, run by a select few Imans who would just as soon kill you over the length of your beard as look at you. The only way to remove the targets from the backs of American troops is complete victory over the enemy.

Of course, Dean is the head of the Democrats, so he couldn’t end his screed against Republicans without a mention of Watergate:

Dean also compared the controversy over pre-war intelligence to the Watergate scandal which brought down Richard Nixon’s presidency in 1974.

“What we see today is very much like what was going in Watergate,” Dean said. “It turns out there is a lot of good evidence that President Bush did not tell the truth when he was asking Congress for the power to go to war. The President said last week that Congress saw the same intelligence that he did in making the decision to go to war, and that is flat out wrong. The President withheld some intelligence from the Senate Intelligence Committee. He withheld the report from the CIA that in fact there was no evidence of weapons of mass destruction (in Iraq), that they did not have a nuclear program. They (the White House) selectively gave intelligence to the United States Senate and the United States Congress and got them to give the go ahead to attack these people.”

The Main Stream Media (MSM) can hardly be called pro-Bush, and yet I have read nothing about the President withholding intelligence information from members of Congress. If the President had withheld intelligence reports from the Congress which did not agree with what he wanted, and there was clear and convincing evidence that he did it, the press would have been all over the story like ugly on an ape. The 24 hour cable news channels (including FOX) would have gone wall-to-wall with coverage of the scandal and continued with complete coverage until the impeachment proceeding was over. No, Mr. Dean, the President did not withhold any intelligence from the Congress, despite your best efforts to convince your followers of this fantasy.

Funny, how I didn’t see any mention of this story in the New York Times, evidenced by a search for the terms “Howard Dean” and “WOAI” returning zero results. I guess the news that the Chairman of the Democrat National Committee is using disinformation on radio talk shows just isn’t “Fit to Print.”

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