I respectfully suggest the Democratic candidates for president who voted in support of the Iraq war are growing a little desperate in their attacks on Howard Dean.
They say Americans will never support anyone who isn’t for a strong national defense and who favors tax increases.
Well, Dean is for a strong national defense. He opposed the Iraq war because Iraq was not a threat to the United States, and he, like most of us, doesn’t believe we should engage in wars of aggression. Are John Kerry, Joe Lieberman, Richard Gephardt and John Edwards feeling a little insecure about their pro-war votes? Unlike Sen. Patty Murray, Sen. Robert Byrd, and the late Paul Wellstone, they passed up the chance to be heroes on that vote.
And Howard Dean does not support tax increases. He sees, as apparently few do so far, that the massive tax-cut give-aways to the richest Americans will soon translate into massive tax increases for all the rest of us, including our grandchildren. So, he wants those cuts cancelled. That won’t increase our taxes; it will reduce them.
Go, Howard!
Everett
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