From the Cut and Run Democrat Department

Here's the strategy from the "cut and run" Democrats:
Cut and Run. Newsflash for Dean: This battle is not a
game of "Ding Dong Doorbell Ditch."

Howard Dean Said U.S. Won't Win In Iraq And Should
Bring Troops Home "Immediately":

"Democratic Chairman Howard Dean On Monday Likened
The War In Iraq To Vietnam And Said, 'The Idea That
The United States Is Going To Win The War In Iraq Is
Just Plain Wrong,' Comments That Drew Immediate Fire
From Republicans." ("Dean Questions Commitment To
Iraq Strategy,"The Associated Press, 12/5/05)

Dean: "I Think We Need A Strategic Redeployment Over
A Period Of Two Years ... Bring The 80,000 National
Guard And Reserve Troops Home Immediately. They
Don't Belong In A Conflict Like This Anyway. ... [W]e
Need A Force In The Middle East, Not In Iraq But In
A Friendly Neighboring Country ..." (San Antonio's
WOAI's Website, www.woai.com, Accessed 12/5/05)

Dean: "I've Seen This Before In My Life. This Is The Same
Situation We Had In Vietnam." (San Antonio's WOAI's
Website, www.woai.com, Accessed 12/5/05)

Dean: "The White House Wants Us To Have A Permanent
Commitment To Iraq. This Is An Iraqi Problem. President
Bush Got Rid Of Saddam Hussein And That Was A Great
Thing ..." (San Antonio's WOAI's Website, www.woai.com,
Accessed 12/5/05)

But, Earlier This Year, Dean Said "We Can't Get Out" Of
Iraq And Withdrawal Could "Endanger" The United States:

Dean: "Now That We're There, We're There And We Can't
Get Out." (Conrad Defiebre, "Howard Dean Warns Of Danger
In Iraq Pullout," [Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN] Star Tribune,
4/21/05)

Dean Laid Out Three Ways That A Withdrawal From Iraq
Could Endanger The United States. "An American pullout
could endanger the United States in any of three ways,

Dean said: by leaving a Shiite theocracy worse than that in
Iran, which he called a more serious threat than Iraq ever
was; by creating an independent Kurdistan in the north, with
destabilizing effects on neighboring Kurdish regions of Turkey,
Iran and Syria, and by making the Sunni Triangle a magnet
for Islamic terrorists similar to the former Taliban-ruled
Afghanistan. 'That's where Al Qaida will set up,' he said."
(Conrad Defiebre, "Howard Dean Warns Of Danger In Iraq
Pullout," [Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN] Star Tribune, 4/21/05)

Dean: "If We Pull Out Precipitously, Or If We Give Over
The Iraqi Government To The Iraqis Precipitously, And
Al-Qaida Establishes A Foothold In Iraq, We Have A Much
More Serious Problem In Terms Of Our Defense Than We
Did Before." ("The Democratic Presidential Candidates On
The Issues At Tuesday's Debate," The Associated Press,
1/6/04)

Before The War, Dean Called Saddam A "Threat" And
Believed Saddam Had WMD:

Dean: "Everything The President Says About Saddam
Hussein Is True. He's Evil. He's A Liar. He Gases His Own
People." (ABC's "This Week," 12/22/02)

Dean: "I Believe That Iraq Does Have Chemical And
Biological Weapons, And They Are A Threat To Many
Nations In The Region, But Not To The United States."
(PBS' "Newshour," 2/25/03)

Dean: "'I Would Be Surprised If [Hussein] Didn't Have'
Chemical And Biological Weapons." (Mort Kondracke,
"Is Howard Dean For Real? Well, Not Entirely," Roll
Call, 1/27/03)

Now, Dean Thinks President Bush "Did Not Tell The
Truth":

Dean: "It Turns Out There Is A Lot Of Good Evidence
That President Bush Did Not Tell The Truth When
He Was Asking Congress For The Power To Go To War."
(San Antonio's WOAI's Website, www.woai.com,
Accessed 12/5/05)