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."




http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030908/pl_nm/iraq_bush_democrats_dc&cid=615&ncid=1480


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.

[Chomskyite]

1. Where Dean hits it out of the ballpark for me:

"I would support the request only if the president gets a U.N. resolution through which allows ... substantial foreign troops in, which means that the pressure will now be on this administration to begin cooperating with other countries of the world, instead of confronting them," he said.

[sonias]

2. Way to go Jesse

I like his statement too, puts the blame where it belongs with the braggarts like bu$h and his neo-con warhead team.

Sonia

[WheresWaldo]

3. Dissappointed with Biden

Happy that Dean had something to say about this. the 87 bn for the next year alone is astronomical. Biden was on NBC after the speech and was disapointing, he had no critique or alternative to add. I was happy that he addressed the failure of the neocons, pointing them out by name. anyways, I agree with Dean, we need to get cooperation from the UN and that means diplomacy, not cowboy woo hoo.

[otohara]

4. Locking - Dupe

continue here please:

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