Reply #13: More of the "with us or against us" mentality?

[E_Zapata]

How absolutely bushite. tsk tsk - if it is so unfounded, why do dean supporters get so in a twist.

It is true:

Dean supports current Pentagon funding

The only thing he is against re the Iraq invasion was the way we did it

Wants to send 400,000 troops in. He 'says' an international force, but he can't have an international force with his view that the US should run the show (same prob bush has). So, to get 400K troops in there, it will take american troops and we don't have them to give to Iraq (same prob as Bush).

He won't work to repeal the USPA - just tweak to help civil liberties

He wants to fund medicare by decreasing benefit payments by raising the age for eligibility (that has been his stance for years)

He seems to think the Afghanistan war is over: "I supportED it" (Is he in any way interested in the 28 classified pages of the 911 report? That might shed some light on whether anyone should have supportED the invasion of Afghanistan. And Dean won't even talk about the 911 investigations -- not until his supporters ask him to, and you guys just let him ride on that. That's downright IRRESPONSIBLE of you guys)

He is for free trade not fair trade - keep GATT and NAFTA as they are

Kyoto? I honestly don't know what Dean has/has not said about it but I know he isn't making an issue of getting in on Kyoto.

Gay rights/marriage? Nope, Dean says it is a state issue. How can a CONSTITUTIONAL civil liberties issue NOT be a federal issue? He's backsliding. And word to the Dean campers: Dean didn't lift a finger to get that gay marriage law on the book; he was forced to sign the bill. That's it. Yet, he takes all the credit and does what he can to not talk about it. Playing both sides of the fence: keep the gay vote and keep the bigots' votes.

The same way Dean gets out of gun control issues: "state's rights". Assault weapons don't have anything to do with living in rural or urban areas - the feds should ban them. Dean doesn't think so.

The list goes on and on.