the final word on Dean's feelings about the deaths of Uday & Qusay Hussein

[pruner]

Means, ends . . . can this thing just end?

Oct. 19, 2003 12:00 AM

Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean says he is not offended by Sen. John McCain's criticisms of his national security positions as "way out of the mainstream."

But Dean, during a visit Thursday to the Washington offices of The Arizona Republic and USA Today, insisted he did not do what McCain is suggesting he did: express reservations about the deaths of Saddam Hussein's two sons.

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As it turns out, the comments McCain was referring to, appearing in a July 22 Associated Press story from New Hampshire, aren't quite as clear-cut as the senator depicted.

It seems Dean had been asked if the killings of the Saddam's two sons were a victory for the Bush administration. Dean answered: "It's a victory for the Iraqi people . . . but it doesn't have any effect on whether we should or shouldn't have gone to war. I think in general the ends do not justify the means."

On Thursday, Dean explained that all he meant to say was that "the Iraqi people are better off because Osai and Qusai are killed. But that doesn't justify the war in Iraq."

Dean suspects this quote may have been "twisted" somehow when first conveyed to McCain during a cable TV show.

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http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/1019azindc19.html

[Mairead]

1. This is just a sad shot at Dean. He was in the right here.

(this was already hashed over in Politics)