Dean Was Right

Posted on May 26, 2004 by bfialindathieman

Dean Was Right

I don't usually publish links to articles rehashing the Dean campaign, mainly because Alta and I are both the type who prefer to deal with the lessons of the past by focusing on what we can accomplish right now and in the future.

But this article, out yesterday in The American Prospect, is one article worth reading.  It tells us what we Dean supporters have always known:  that when Howard Dean said the capture of Saddam Hussein did not make us any safer, he was right.

Read the article here.  It's called “He Told You So,” by Matthew Yglesias.


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1 Response to Dean Was Right

  1. Unknown's avatar Anonymous says:
    May 26, 2004 at 5:34 pm

    Dean was absolutely right in his comments after the capture of Saddam Hussein. If we were safer why hasn't the level been no lower than yellow alert? Here are a few facts that still hang over us. We still face the spectre of unaccounted Chemical, Biological, and Nuclear weapons stock piles of the former Soviet Union. Compounded with the fact that the scientists involved in said programs of the former Soviet Union are still unemployed. Making them prospective employees of states that sponsor terrorism and non state sponsored terrorist entities like Al Quaeda. We still face nuclear black mail by North Korea of which the Bush Administration has turned a blind eye to. We also face a nuclear stand-off between Pakistan and India, don't be fooled by the relative calmness over this situation. In recent years China has made great improvements in terms of rocket and submarine technology. They have made several purchases of old Soviet Kilo class submarines. Submarines make for perfect platforms for nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles.
    Since the war in Iraq there are more Al Quaeda in Iraq than before. The region has become more unstable. Nothing has been done to alleviate the Palestinian and Israeli conflict.
    Not only that. We are sorely blinded in the intelligence area. We do have satelites that can take a picture of the headlines on today's Des Moines Register. However we are lacking what is called in the intelligence community “HumanInt” (Human Intelligence). We desperately need human agents to collect and analyze raw intelligence to come up with factually based intelligence estimates. The bush Administration shot our nation in the foot on the war on terrorism 2 years ago when over 135 Arabic translators were discharged from the defense department for being gay. A satelite can take a picture but a human agent can tell you what is going to happen. There has been no meaningful reformes proposed by pResident Bush in this area of national security.
    In closing we are no safer. In fact we are more vulnerable because of our government's action and inaction. Al Quaeda is more de-centralized thus shape shifting itself into a more dangerous entity. Welcome to the nightmare of Bush's national security and foreign policy.

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