HOWARD DEAN TALKS TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AS THOUGH THEY HAVE BRAINS AND WANT THE TRUTH. DO WE? OR DO WE WANT MORE LIES FROM BUSH AND FAUX NEWS?

Howard Dean is the greatest political figure in America today. He doesn't lie and pussyfooting around doesn't come easy. John McCain a straight-shooter? Not on your life! McCain opens his mouth and lies pour out. Otherwise he wouldn't be running as a Republican in the first place.

And the cowardly, confused, corporate, careerist wing of the Democratic Party, the Bidens and Kerrys and Clintons? (I won't even bring up the Republicans disguised as Democrats like Joe Lieberman and Jim Marshall, 'cause the only people who care what those assholes think are Republicans-- or Republican propagandists playing journalist rolls in the mass media.) "Several Democrats joined President Bush yesterday in rebuking Dean's declaration to a San Antonio radio station Monday that "the idea that we're going to win the war in Iraq is an idea which is just plain wrong," wrote Jim VandeHei in today's WASHINGTON POST.

Sounding a lot like he's auditioning for a Fox "News" job for when he loses his Georgia congressional seat next year, Democratic turncoat Jim Marshall states that "Dean's take on Iraq makes even less sense than the scream in Iowa: Both are uninformed and unhelpful." Marshall, the House version of Lieberman, is a reactionary Bush supporter and militarist with an 11 year old's comprehension of the Middle Eastern situation-- a dumb 11 year old at that.

Dean, who is voicing preferences in total sync with over half the people in the country, generated a shitstorm from rightwing talk show hosts and Bush Regime neo-Cons by predicting, during a San Antonio radio interview, a rerun of the Vietnam debacle. "This is the same situation we had in Vietnam," Dean said. "Everybody then kept saying, 'just another year, just stay the course, we'll have a victory.' Well, we didn't have a victory, and this policy cost the lives of an additional 25,000 troops because we were too stubborn to recognize what was happening." Dean said he favored a plan to immediately withdraw National Guard and Reserve troops-- with all military personnel slated to be out of Iraq within two years.

"Howard Dean should be arrested and hung for treason or put in a hole until the end of the Iraq war!" said the severely mentally-impaired son of Ronald Reagan on his extremist Radio America show Monday. And the Faux News talking heads have shut up about it since. Putting him in a role until the end of the Iraq war means forever, if the Republicans have their way. This is a war Bush and Cheney planned way before 9/11, used the 9/11 tragedy as an excuse for it, and see the occupation as a way of dominating the strategic, oil-rich Middle East. They're building permanent bases in Iraq and plan to never leave. If Diebold voting machines are counting are votes in the future, they never will leave.

Do you recall Reagan or Faux News or the congressional sheep bleating when Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE) let loose an even more aggressively anti-Bush tirade about Iraq a few months ago? "Things aren't getting better; they're getting worse. The White House is completely disconnected from reality. It's like they're just making it up as they go along. The reality is that we're losing in Iraq."


It's easier for the Far Right to confront Dean's hot button charges than it is to confront Republican Hagel or the more intellectually thorough attacks on BushCo's mendacity by Henry Waxman. Today Waxman skewered the Bush Regime with an utterly devastating analysis of their Iraq catastrophe. "The President's claims today are mindboggling. Either he doesn't understand the facts or simply doesn't want to face them. The reconstruction of Iraq has been an enormous boondoggle - not an example of "quiet, steady progress." Halliburton has repeatedly overcharged American taxpayers through fraud, waste, and abuse. The U.S. officials in charge of the reconstruction have been incompetent and, in some cases, corrupt. And billions of dollars have been squandered without increasing oil or electricity production."