Democrats see Bush speech falling short of Iraq fix

[Mari333]

- Democrats on Sunday backed President Bush (news - web sites)'s call to bolster the Iraqi occupation with more money and non-U.S. troops, but said it fell short of a clear way to fix a problem-plagued mission.



"We cannot afford to lose the peace in Iraq (news - web sites)," Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean (news - web sites), the former Vermont governor, said an a telephone news conference after Bush's nationally broadcast speech.


However, Dean said, "We're stuck in an increasingly deteriorating situation with a government of the United States that can't manage the situation."




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Edit to add: Joe Biden is a WHORE
But Jesse Jackson is SPOT ON

Civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson (news - web sites) said he hoped Bush had learned a lesson about the importance of international support. "We went in bragging, now we are caught begging because we're in a quagmire," he said.