Reply #23: Kucinich is wrong about Dean's stand on Iraq [View All]

[Larkspur]

He accuses Dean of being totally anti-war and trying to deceive progressives and Democrats about his stand on Iraq. Dean was always clear about his stand on Iraq and Dean never said he was totally anti-war. It is Kucinich who is in error and I was pointing that out.

Kucinich is also in error about the makeup of the anti-Iraq war protesters. He assumes that we are all like him and like those anti-Vietnam war protesters. We're not.

Why are you bringing up who said what first? What does it matter? THe point is Dean said get them out, then. Now, he says "Now that we're there , we're there and we can't get out."
You are wrong. Dean never said get our our troops out immediately and keep them in now. Dean had always wanted to bring in foreign troops so that Iraq didn't look like an American colony. Dean never believed that we could abandon Iraq, like Reagan and Bush I did Afghanistan.

And yeah, the head of the DNC has nothing to do with the direction of the party. Right.
Why don't you ask DK to ask Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid what they told Howard Dean?

As for your quibbling about when DK joined the race? Meaningless. Why are you bringing that up? Please, do explain why you mention it
It is not meaningless. Dean had been saying that he was the only Prez contender to oppose the war BEFORE DK got into the race. Yes, after DK got in the race, Dean should have corrected that saying, but Dean was the only major candidate to oppose the war. DK was never a serious contender and unlike Dean, DK's Prez campaign never grew outside the the small group he attracted.