December 1, 2003, Howard Dean on Hardball.
JOSEPH NYE, DEAN, KENNEDY SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT: Governor, let me take you back to foreign policy.You’ve been critical of President Bush’s going into Iraq over weapons of mass destruction. But there are two countries that are much closer to nuclear weapons than Iraq ever was. And one of them is North Korea and the other is Iran. If you are elected president, how will your policy toward North Korea and Iran differ from the administration’s?
NYE: In Iran?
DEAN: Iran is a more complex problem because the problem support as clearly verifiable as it is in North Korea. Also, we have less-fewer levers much the key, I believe, to Iran is pressure through the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union is supplying much of the equipment that Iran, I believe, most likely is using to set itself along the path of developing nuclear weapons. We need to use that leverage with the Soviet Union and it may require us to buying the equipment the Soviet Union was ultimately going to sell to Iran to prevent Iran from them developing nuclear weapons. That is also a country that must not be allowed to develop nuclear weapons much the key to all this is foresight. Let’s act now so we don’t have to have a confrontation which may result in force, which would be very disastrous in the case of North Korea and might be disastrous in the case of Iran.
Very interesting. I wonder if Mr. Dean thinks we should do something about the evil Warsaw Pact countries? I hear that those East Germans can be pretty nasty.
Free tip for Howard Dean: If you want your opponents to stop criticizing your foreign policy inexperience, keep yer trap shut.
P.S. Call James Carville, pronto!
I've heard Dean apologists saying he said "The Soviet Union" only when talking about history, and any other time it was used it was to "be assumed" he was still talking about history. I fail to see how this can be rationalized this way. "The Soviet Union is supplying much of the equipment that Iran, I believe, most likely is using to set itself along the path of developing nuclear weapons." Unless he has problems conjugating his verbs...
Must've been all that coke Howie did in the Eighties.
I have to say it: if Bush had pulled a boner like that on national TV, 90% of the talking heads would have been all over it, like flies on an egg salad.
Ohh, Ohh! Look how stoopid Bush is!
But when The Anointed -He Who Shall Lead Us From Bondage- screws up; not once, but four times in a single paragraph; they ignore it.
Remember how much flack Gerald Ford took for his gaffe about Poland back in 1976?...
Since it's impossible to believe he's actually stupid enough to think the Soviet Union is still around...why would he say that? That's what I'd like to know. It's like a mystery wrapped in a riddle.
their no way around it.... dean is a class A idiot... did anyone else see that he was planning on have clinton go to the middle east to negiotiate peace?
Calling James Carville won't help. Even he needs SOMETHING to work with. But what if ... Dean gets the nomination and Bush/Cheney/cabinet are hit by a meteorite?
Can you imagine this man as your president? I think this website ought to start offering some kind of warning if the post content is going to keep me awake nights.
I will make a promise - right now.
From now on: if I post something, at night, that I think will disturb Allison I will warn her at the the top.
:-)
Actually, dowingba, I don't think Dean is stupid because of his gaffe, any more than Bush's malapropisms mean that the President is stupid, either. Nor do I think that the mistake means Dean is somehow incompetent.
I do think it means that the press will cut some candidates tons of slack, and none at all for others.
I don't think Dean is stupid because of his gaffe, any more than Bush's malapropisms mean that the President is stupid, either. Nor do I think that the mistake means Dean is somehow incompetent.
Thanks, Casey...you saved me from saying the exact same thing.
I do think it means that the press will cut some candidates tons of slack, and none at all for others.
I even agree with that too! A red-letter day!
Three's the charm -- would you believe that Bush was the beneficiary of major-league slack-cutting by the press in Campaign 2000? I would.
Methinks you wouldn't.
What say ye, old friend?