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Don't Disrespect Dean
Why does Joe Conason attack Howard Dean for his statement, which he paraphrases as "suggesting that the war "cannot be won" by our troops". The statement is quite clearly correct. The administration has no goal in Iraq, so we cannot "win" our way to that goal. The administration has never sent enough troops to "win", and now it is too late: the country would rebel if we sent the hundreds of thousands of troops it would take to subdue the insurgency.
This constant bashing of democrats who take leadership on the accepted goal of getting our people out of harm's way plays into the hands of the republicans, who not only play the verse: "Dean is a loon" on their mighty noise machine, but add a chorus: Even that liberal toad Conason agrees.