Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean in an official news release from the Democratic National Committee:

"In a statement DNC Chairman Howard Dean said the President should abandon his well-worn political attempts to cloud the truth about the situation in Iraq and lay out a realistic framework for the future withdrawal of American troops.

"President Bush's refusal to confront the facts and articulate a plan has put our country - and our troops - in greater danger," said DNC Dean. "Tonight, the president should use the occasion of his nationally televised address to abandon his political strategy of clouding the truth about Iraq and come clean with the American people, and most importantly, the American troops about our exit strategy."

Howard Dean is a fool. He is ignorant of history, recent history in which his Party led a war with thousands upon thousands of unnecessary dead and wounded. Do I refer to the Vietnam disaster that the democrats inflicted on us? Do I refer to the Korean War in which 35,000 Americans died because Democratic President Harry Truman’s administration declared Korea outside our defense perimeter? No and no.

I do speak of the thousands of men who were killed and wounded by the bumbling of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s administration. It failed to gather intelligence about the quarter-million man German attack during the Battle of the Bulge that cost us more in casualties in days than General Douglas MacArthur's troops suffered in 4 years of war against the Japanese.

I do speak of the bumbling Roosevelt administration that didn’t know there were "hedgerows" above the beaches of Normandy. From the hedgerows, the Germans stopped American troops dead in their tracks and killed more American soldiers in a few hours than the entire number killed in Iraq in over two years.

I do speak of the hundreds of American soldiers who never made it to Normandy because they were killed by German E-boats hundreds of yards from English soil because Roosevelt generals didn’t communicate with Churchill admirals.

I do speak of a worthless WWII invasion of Peleliu island in the Central Pacific that was unnecessary yet resulted in Marine deaths in an effort to ego boost Roosevelt Navy Admirals who were jealous of General MacArthur’s success in the Southwest Pacific. President Roosevelt himself approved of the Navy’s Peleliu plans that resulted in 2,336 dead Marines and 8,450 wounded. These numbers dwarf the dead and wounded in Iraq over the last 27 months.

I do speak of Bosnia and Kosovo in which President William Jefferson Clinton ordered war and troops while enjoying the company of Monica Lewinsky. Ten years later, American troops are still in Bosnia. Where were the Howard Dean/Ted Kennedy demands for President Clinton to articulate an exit strategy and planned withdrawal of American troops from Bosnia by Howard Dean and other Democrats? There weren’t any.

I do speak of President Clinton’s inability to eliminate Osama Bin Laden when the opportunity arose. Where is the Kennedy criticism of Clinton’s National Security Advisor, a pleaded out criminal Sandy Berger, who nixed a missile attack to kill Bin Laden and of Clinton who did not overrule his criminal National Security Advisor?

Worse than President Clinton and his Know-Nothing band of National Security un-experts, is, of course, Senator Ted Kennedy’s President brother, John F. Kennedy. He sent Americans to die in a country neither he nor his advisors could even find on a map without help.

McGeorge Bundy and Robert McNamera led Kennedy’s Harvard "gang." Kennedy’s Secretary of Defense McNamera admitted after 58,000 Americans died in Vietnam that they had no knowledge of Vietnam (Indo-China) or its people before they sent troops to die there.

I speak of a "quagmire" Senator Kennedy, your brother’s Vietnam quagmire, sir, not of Iraq. In Iraq we’ve had victory in the war, a victory attained in just weeks and with minimal casualties. The current post-war terrorism – imported terrorism -- is another issue that will be resolved in time and done so by American trained and supported Iraqis.

That is the plan, that is the strategy and it is working, Senator Kennedy. No such plan was ever developed or implemented by your brother, Senator, nor by his handpicked successor, President Lyndon "Bodybag" Johnson.

The only exit plan that ever existed for Vietnam was President Richard Nixon’s plan to disengage and bring the troops home that he announced and implemented on taking office in 1969. Kennedy had no exit plan; Johnson had no exit plan. Howard Dean offers no plan on Iraq.

The plan for Iraq is in place, as is the "exit" strategy. It is working. Just review the video of millions of Iraqis voting in January. Look at how Iraqis line up to join their army or police forces, despite suicide bombers targeting them.

Look at the Iraqi people. Are they marching in the streets rioting and demanding U.S. withdrawal? Are they attacking American troops? Are they coalescing around public leaders voicing political alternatives to what they are developing with American help? Surveys taken of Iraqis demonstrate heavy support for the developing Iraqi government.

Ersatz Shia rebels have laid down their arms and thrown in with the democratic process, as have Sunni Muslims who boycotted the January 30 elections. Terrorists who the American media label "insurgents" target mostly Iraqi civilians, police and army recruits, not American military or bases. Bombers who do not show their faces or forces occasionally target American patrols, but those attacks are rare and certainly not as numerous as occurred a year ago.

The Democratic hypocrisy is overwhelming in its odiousness. The body counts tell all. President Bush has waged more war with fewer casualties than any President of the United States -- period.

The Battle for our future freedom from terror is being fought in Iraq, not Indianapolis, not Iowa City or Manhattan, thanks to President George W. Bush’s vision.

President Bush’s war approach works better for the United States than Clinton grand jury indictments any day, anywhere. It is better than the Kennedy and Johnson deployment of millions of Americans and draftees to die along a Mekong River no one ever heard of before their sons, brothers, fathers and uncles died there, died there for nothing as it turned out. Howard Dean is not on record demanding an exit strategy from Vietnam. He was too busy skiing in Aspen at the time.

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