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9/21/2003 10:57:00 PM | Brad Plumer Speaking of flip-flops... It's time to put an end to the idea that Howard Dean was any more ardently against the Iraq war than Wesley Clark or John Kerry. They all took pretty much the same wishy-washy position, and Josh Marshall has the quotes to prove it. This was taken from Dean's remarks on Face the Nation a couple of weeks before the war resolution vote: My question is not that we may not have to go into Iraq. We may very well have to go into Iraq. What is the rush? Why can't we take the time to get our allies on board? Why do we have to do everything in a unilateral way?Obviously, given my remarks on Clark, I appreciate this position and have no intention on faulting Dean for taking it. But I can fault Dean for trying to paint himself as the unabashed anti-war candidate, the candidate who stood his ground while politicians like Kerry were waffling. These sentences from Dean's site are misleading: I opposed President Bush’s war in Iraq from the beginning. While Saddam Hussein’s regime was clearly evil and needed to be disarmed, it did not present an immediate threat to U.S. security that would justify going to war, particularly going to war alone.Good catch by Josh Marshall (as usual)... I also like this post by Marshall, defending Clark from accusations of flip-flopping. I guess this is what I've been trying to say below, only much more concisely: [Clark] is one of the few candidates who strikes me as having given any serious thought to the question -- outside the context of the politics. And he is the only one who's written extensively on the national security challenges which face the country, Iraq, and the strategic and diplomatic shortcomings of the president's policy.Not much to add to that. perma link |
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