Transcript of Howard Dean's interview with Hemmer on CNN today.

[madfloridian]

This is just a portion of the transcript. Hemmer is certainly an apologist for this administration, IMHO.

http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0404/16/ltm.01.html
SNIP..."O'BRIEN: Also, Howard Dean ran president and vocally opposed the war. What
does he think about the situation in Iraq now.....


(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

SNIP..."HEMMER: Former Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean our guest today
talking about Iraq and the campaign ahead.

Good morning to you, Governor. Welcome back here to AMERICAN MORNING.

HOWARD DEAN, FRM. VERMONT GOVERNOR: Good morning.

HEMMER: There's a front-page story today in "The New York Times" talking
about the U.S. now backing a U.N. plan to involve the United Nations in a
much more forceful way starting this summer. Do you support that idea?

DEAN: I do. I think that's what's necessary. I wish it had been done that
way in the first place.

But we are going to have to bring many more foreign troops into Iraq to
replace ours.

I was listening to the story earlier about the troops being extended. You
know, that's really demoralizing. One of the problems we're going to see is
a dramatic reduction in the number of people who re-enlist in the National
Guard as a result of having this president continue to mislead them and send
them on missions they never thought they were going to get into.

HEMMER: Are you suggesting those numbers are going down or do you have proof
of it?

DEAN: The numbers are going down now and they'll go down a lot more as the
re-enlistments come in.

It's really tough on people who join the National Guard who believe that
they're there serving their country, particularly domestically, and then get
shipped off to places like Iraq for 12 months time and then extended.....................

Portions snipped for copyright.

So I think getting the United Nations in is long overdue. I think if we
weren't having an election and the war were going better, the president
wouldn't even be talking about that. The truth is, that's what we should
have done in the first place to confront Saddam Hussein.........................

SNIP..."HEMMER: You have talked about Bushgate, you have mentioned the words
"impeachment" along with "the president" at this point. Do you believe...

DEAN: That actually is not accurate. I have not mentioned the word
"impeachment" along with "the president." So let's not get something started
that wasn't true.

HEMMER: You've been extremely critical of this president, especially this
past weekend on LATE EDITION WITH WOLF BLITZER, and you got into this whole
conversation. My question to you is a little more pointed than that.

NOTE THE TYPICAL RW PHRASING HERE:
HEMMER "Is that the right thing to say when the U.S. military men and women with
their lives are on the line in Iraq today?

DEAN: The right thing to do is to have a president who understands what it
is to ask Americans to give their lives in the service of their country and
to be a little bit more discriminating about what represents a danger to the
United States and what doesn't.

It's very clear now that the president of the United States did not tell the
truth to the American people when he said there was a connection between
Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda when he implied that Saddam Hussein had
something to do with terrorism, which was not true and the nation now knows
that as a result of Richard Clarke's testimony; when he said in the State of
the Union that Iraq was purchasing uranium from Africa, which was not true;
when the vice president said that they were in Iraq accumulating nuclear
weapons, that that was not true. The secretary of defense said he knew just
where the weapons of mass destruction were; that was not true.

What we need is a president who will tell the truth to the American people
about why we're in this war.

HEMMER: Governor Dean, thanks for your time.

DEAN: Thanks very much.

[Woody Guthrie]

1. Gotta Love Dean.

I still feel like he gave the Dems a backbone.

[Bill McBlueState]

2. thanks for the reminder of why I love Dean!

Now that he's not in the race, he's free to tell it as he sees it. (Which of course is what got him into trouble in the first place...) But now that he's not a candidate, nobody expects him to tread lightly around controversy the way Kerry seems to have to.

I like how he reminded everyone of the uranium lie, and Rumsfeld's lie about the WMD.

And way to go slapping down Hemmer and his impeachment question.

[gWbush is Mabus]

3. CNN censored some of what dean was saying

"copywrited"

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fuck cnn!

[madfloridian]

4. I snipped a lot out of the transcript...that was me.

Usually we can copy more of a transcript than some things, but I put the copyright thingy in there.