Howard Dean: Is the president dishonest or just incompetent?

[CatWoman]

Salon's Michael Scherer reports on breakfast with Howard Dean:

Howard Dean called this morning for the Bush administration to declassify a Pentagon report that apparently disproves President Bush's claim that mobile labs found in Iraq constituted "weapons of mass destruction." As the Washington Post reported today, Bush made this statement in 2003, after a team of experts dispatched by the Defense Intelligence Agency concluded that the labs had no military value.

"We are going to call for, probably today, the declassification of the report," Dean said at a private steakhouse breakfast with reporters. "Everybody can see what's in that report so everybody can make their own judgments about whether this president and this administration is incompetent or whether he was dishonest. It has to be one of the two."

http://salon.com/politics/war_room/

[madame defarge]

1. Or both... n/t

[Protagoras]

2. Why can't he be both?

I have known plenty of idiots who lie to cover their screwups.

[BlooInBloo]

7. Nothing Dean said rules that out....

The only thing ruled out is that gw be neither dishonest nor incompetent.

[valerief]

8. He has to be both, otherwise his coverup would have been

competently executed.

[Lindsay]

3. Dear Dr. Dean:

The two are not mutually exclusive.

[blm]

4. Great article - good job Chairman Dean.

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[NYCGirl]

5. Howard is great — and a master of understatement:

On Iraq, he said that Democrats were close to consensus about what should be done next, with several similar Democratic proposals in Congress that all advocate a staged redeployment of U.S. troops. "Obviously, Joe Lieberman is the outlier here," Dean said, referring to the Connecticut senator who is fighting a tough primary battle for reelection.

http://salon.com/politics/war_room/2006/04/12/dean/index.html

[rodeodance]

6. Dean wants the report and Scotty wants an apology from WP--should

be interesting