Dr. Dean Makes Another Bad House Call

Karl Rove seems to have re-activated that chip that makes Howard Dean say stupid things...

Saying the "idea that we're going to win the war in Iraq is an idea which is just plain wrong," Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean predicted today that the Democratic Party will come together on a proposal to withdraw National Guard and Reserve troops immediately, and all US forces within two years.

Dean made his comments in an interview on WOAI Radio in San Antonio.

"I've seen this before in my life. This is the same situation we had in Vietnam. Everybody then kept saying, 'just another year, just stay the course, we'll have a victory.' Well, we didn't have a victory, and this policy cost the lives of an additional 25,000 troops because we were too stubborn to recognize what was happening."

Dean says the Democrat position on the war is 'coalescing,' and is likely to include several proposals.

Dr. Demento later said that the Democrats aren't advocating withdrawal, but "strategic redeployment." I fail to see the difference, since whether we withdraw the troops to Afghanistan, another country in the Middle East, or stateside, they're withdrawing from Iraq. Maybe Dean thinks withdrawal is just one of several different options with the same goal, but I think he's confusing arguments on birth control with arguments on the war. And even in the context of birth control, withdrawal (or "strategic redeployment") is a questionable way to accomplish your goal.

When I first saw this quote, I realized that the Democrats have now adopted what I will heretofore call the "Adrian Balboa" strategy. For those of you unfamiliar with the greatness of Rocky IV, it features the annoying wife of Rocky deciding to tell her man, "You know how strong he is. You can't win" when discussing his upcoming matchup with Russian superhuman Ivan Drago.

We hear that Stallone's making Rocky VI. Maybe Howard Dean is trying out for the part of Adrian.