Dean supported Clark's Bombing of Serbia [View All]

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Dean also supported Clinton's bombing of Iraq, and the sanctions in Iraq that killed more people than Bush's current invasion (so far).

"Dean, who has been mischaracterized as the reincarnation of George McGovern, is certainly no traditional liberal or even a traditional dove. "I told the peace people not to fall in love with me," he told me over breakfast in Manchester, N.H., last week. He said he had opposed Vietnam, but he had supported the first Gulf War, the interventions in Bosnia and Kosovo, and the war in Afghanistan. In the 1980s he had "mixed feelings" about Ronald Reagan's support for the contras in Nicaragua and opposed a unilateral nuclear freeze. "I'm not a pacifist. I believe there are times when pre-emptive force is justified, but there has to be an immediate threat, and there just wasn't in this case."

Dean is being deceptive here - there was NO immediate threat to the US in Gulf War I, there was NO immediate threat to the US in Nicaragua, and there was NO threat to the US in Bosnia and Kosovo, so obviously that is not really his criteria. A more reasonable assumption would be that Dean supports wars that are POPULAR with the American people - GWI, he opposes wars that are unpopular - Vietnam - and is of course using anti-war sentiment about this war Gulf War II - to run for president.

http://marinfordean.org/article_text.asp?articleid=95

Howard Dean represents the STATUS QUO on war. If you are against the current wars, you should vote for Dennis Kucinich who is the ONLY one that consistently opposes US wars.