DNC chairman Dr. Dean appeared on Face the Nation yesterday, which means VERY few people probably heard what he had to say.
Nonetheless, his words will come back to bite him.
Transcript
While discussing the war in Iraq, Dr. Dean said:First thing we need is to do have a plan for leaving. And the second thing we need to do is to make sure that to the best of our ability we can influence the writing of the constitution. It looks like today, and this could change--as of today, it looks like women will be worse off in Iraq than they were when Saddam Hussein was president of Iraq. That's a pretty sad commentary on this administration's ability to do anything right.
The RNC's response:
Dean's wild assertion that Iraqi women would be better off living under Saddam Hussein than democracy is not only counterproductive to meaningful debate, it demeans the hard work of American servicemen and women serving in Iraq.
Dr. Dean needs to keep talking. Suggesting that women were better off under Saddam's regime is crazy. He exposes the Democrats as nutjobs and completely out of touch with reality. Every time he opens his mouth, he gives Republicans another gift.
Apparently, Dean thinks that Iraqi women prefer rape and torture and murder to their current situation.
U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad said, "the Iraqi constitution will respect the rights of all Iraqis, men and women, and that the U.S., working with Iraqis, will work very hard to make sure that the human rights of Iraqis are respected in the constitution."
Khalilzad also said he told Iraqi leaders that their new constitution should reflect "equality between men and women before the law." The absence of any type of discrimination in Iraqi social and political affairs "is vital," he maintained, to the success of the new Iraq.
"I have every expectation that the draft constitution will grant equal rights to men and women," Khalilzad said, noting, "our efforts and the efforts of many women here in Iraq and the international community will ultimately pay off on this score."
Creating a functioning, just government is not easy. It should be remembered that it took well over a hundred years before women in the U.S. were granted the right to vote.
In any case, two points should be noted:
1) Women were not better off under Saddam Hussein's reign of terror than in today's Iraq.
2) Dean, head of the DNC, is a FAR-LEFT EXTREMIST.
Check out the press release from the DNC about Dean's appearance.
Where is Dean's "it looks like women will be worse off in Iraq than they were when Saddam Hussein was president of Iraq" remark?
Not there.
Monday, August 15, 2005
Dean Faces the Nation
Posted by Mary at 8/15/2005 11:15:00 AM
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What jumped out at me about Deans statement, other than the innane remark about women, is the statement that we need to have a plan. Does anyone ever remember what the Democrats plan is? I don't. Do they even have one? and if they do, is it better than Bush's? The only plan I have heard from them is exactly what Bush is doing already.
Mark, here's Dean's response to your questions:
SCHIEFFER: ...I mean, saying we need a plan. I mean, sure, you need a plan, but do you
have a plan? Is anybody working on a plan? What would you propose?
Dr. DEAN: Well, Bob, the president of the United States is commander in chief. It is up to
him to come up for a plan. You can't expect a congressman and senators who don't have the
same access to intelligence as the president does to come up with a plan to withdraw our troops
from Iraq. We look--the president got us into Iraq 'cause people were willing to trust the
president, even some Democrats were willing to trust the president in assuming he knew what
he was doing. The problem is now that there's ample evidence to say that they didn't
understand what they were getting into and they still don't know what we're doing there.
They changed their goals. The troops are still not properly equipped. The constitution looks
like it may take away freedom from the Iraq people, at least half of them, instead of added to
them. What we need is a plan from the president of the United States. You can't expect a
particular senator or particular congressman to have a plan. Only the president can do that.
Do you believe that?
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