Howard Dean, MTP, and the OBL/Saddam thaang
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From the transcript of this morning's Meet the Press:
MR. RUSSERT: "Well, you said there were weapons of mass destruction."
DR. DEAN: "I said I wasn't sure, but I said I thought there probably were. But the thing that really bothered me the most, which the 9-11 Commission said also wasn't true, is the insinuation that the president continues to make to this day that Osama bin Laden had something to do with supporting terrorists that attacked the United States. That is false. The 9-11 Commission, chaired by a Republican, said it was false. Is it wrong to send people to war without telling them the truth. And the truth was Osama bin Laden was a very bad person who was doing terrible things, but that Iraq was never a threat to the United States. That was the truth."
Ooops.
So the President keeps saying that OBL had something to do with supporting the terrorists who attacked the U.S. Dean thinks the 9-11 commission found that he had nothing to do with it.
I hope he misspoke, confusing Osama bin Laden's name with that of Saddam Hussein. My best political advice for Governor Dean: Do not speak in public and especially not in front of cameras.
This is one area where I'll agree that Bush supporters have no ammunition to throw at Dean. We're living in a glass house on that one - a very thin glass house.
My problem with Dean really has more to do with the things that he actually intends to say that are borderline insane.
Before I read your closing observation I thought
the very same thing: Dean was confusing that old
canard that Hussein was involved in 9/11 which
Bush never contended. He's also said that DeLay
ought to serve time apart from any indictment or
trial; and that he "hates" Republicans. The man
is obviously as unhinged as his scream heard
round the world indicated. He admits that until
his early 30's he was a "binge drinker." I
wonder how many brain cells remain undestroyed?
Probably we should cut our hard-working politicians some slack when they misspeak on camera...