[lbo-talk] Howard Dean: "Now That We're There We Can't Leave"

Guilherme groschke at luminousvoid.net
Thu Jul 3 07:07:04 PDT 2003


On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


> ***** National Public Radio (NPR)
> SHOW: Morning Edition (11:00 AM AM ET) - NPR
> July 2, 2003 Wednesday
> LENGTH: 1493 words
> HEADLINE: Howard Dean on issues that are important to him as a
> Democratic presidential candidate
> ANCHORS: BOB EDWARDS
> BODY:
>
> ...[BOB] EDWARDS [host]: What would you be doing differently in postwar Iraq?
>
> Dr. DEAN: Now that we're there we can't leave. We cannot allow chaos
> or fundamentalist regime in Iraq because it could be fertile ground
> for al-Qaeda. First thing I would do is bring in 40 to 50,000 other
> troops. I'd look to Arab countries, Islamic countries who are our
> allies, NATO, the United Nations. General Shinseki, before we went
> in, said that we did not have enough troops. The administration
> ignored that advice. It turned out to be true. It was a bad thing
> the administration ignored their own military expertise. We need
> those troops. We're not keeping order in Iraq. And it seems to me
> that what we need is some expertise from people who know how to
> police countries that are in some chaos and who understand how to
> administer and build the institutions of democracy. We're going to
> be there for a long time in Iraq. We can't leave. Because if we do
> before there's established democracy, many worse things will happen
> to both the Iraqi people and to America if the terrorists move in....
> *****
> --

last nite here in santa fe Kucinich likened it to the signs in china shops -- 'you break it, you buy it'. said, we broke the country, now we have to fix it -- with the UN of course.

-gr



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