Five years ago, and almost exactly a month before the US launched an invasion of Iraq, a tiny, practically defenseless nation that did nothing to our own, Howard Dean said these words, in a speech at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa:
"I firmly believe that the president is focusing our diplomats, our military, our intelligence agencies, and even our people on the wrong war, at the wrong time. .... Saddam Hussein must not have weapons of mass destruction. But particular weapons can be destroyed without an all-out war to impose a change of regimes. That is a much larger step, for which the case has not yet been made. .... Iraq is a divided country, with Sunni, Shia and Kurdish factions that share both bitter rivalries and access to large quantities of arms. ... I ask you to work for change - to stop the reckless policies of this Administration - because we need economic and foreign policies that reflect both the interests and the values of the American people. "
- Howard Dean, 17 February 2003
Now, after five years, one candidate is still an idiot. David Corn caught up
with John McCain:
After the event ended, I asked McCain about his "hundred years" comment, and he reaffirmed the remark, excitedly declaring that U.S. troops could be in Iraq for "a thousand years" or "a million years," as far as he was concerned.
End the occupation, don't let McCain become president.
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