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In reply to the discussion: Contrast pre-Iraq war views of Bob Graham and the Clintons. We need to remember. [View all]madfloridian
(88,117 posts)I have several times compared our "adoration" for Dean in the early 2000s to the same thing in other forms here. You must have missed it.
I do believe Dean was mostly very sincere in his opposition to the invasion. How he would have voted is another question.
I learned a lot from that campaign, and it is pretty much soured me on all politics and most candidates for anything.
What I find the most reprehensible though is for Howard Dean to use his twitter feed to go after public school teachers. He is one of the most ardent supporters of the privatization of education, even more so I think than Obama.
He needs to keep his mouth shut on twitter or become trending again. He deserved all he got that day.
To give him credit he said one of the strongest truths about Iraq when he was giving an interview on San Antonio radio. He said we were never going to win the war in Iraq. That was 2005 I believe. The earth nearly stopped turning from all the attacks on him, then....but he was right.