Howard Dean, Right Wing Mouthpiece

It's actually kind of funny in a way. Everything that the liberals said would happen in Iraq happened almost exactly the way they said it would.

Remember Howard Dean? He was labeled as a "left wing extremist" because he said the following before we invaded Iraq:

The Administration has not explained how a lasting peace, and lasting security, will be achieved in Iraq once Saddam Hussein is toppled. ... It is possible that Iraq will try to force our troops to fight house to house in the middle of cities - on its turf, not ours - where precision-guided missiles are of little use. ... There are other risks. Iraq is a divided country, with Sunni, Shia and Kurdish factions that share both bitter rivalries and access to large quantities of arms. Iran and Turkey each have interests in Iraq they will be tempted to protect with or without our approval.

Now we have all those people who called Howard Dean a "left wing extremist" stepping up and saying the most outlandish things, which can be collectively summarized as "everything is going wrong with our war in Iraq because Iran is doing exactly what Howard Dean said it would, but don't blame us."

In December of this past year, Howard Dean once again was in the spotlight for daring to compare the Iraq War to the Vietnam War. (Michael Reagan: "He should be hung for treason.")

Today? David Frum, major player in ramping up neocon support for the Iraq war was writing this:

It's like some baby boomer nightmare: after decades of swearing that we would never repeat the mistakes of our parents, we are re-enacting the errors committed in Indochina in the 1960s and 1970s, every single one.

Ooh! String that terrorist-appeasing liberal... er... I mean... Give that former advisor to President Bush a medal!

I especially enjoy the title of David Frum's piece: "New Plan Wanted", seeing as how it was his plan, along with Richard Perle, in the book An End To Evil: How To Win The War On Terror, that Paul Wolfowitz and Dick Cheney were following.

[Wolfowitz] said there was no history of ethnic strife in Iraq ... He said Iraqi civilians would welcome an American-led liberation force ... And he said that nations that oppose war with Iraq would likely sign up to help rebuild it. "I would expect that even countries like France will have a strong interest in assisting Iraq in reconstruction," Mr. Wolfowitz said.

Well, fortunately, just as Iraq is descending into the civil war that everyone (except Bush supporters) predicted, and every Bush supporter scoffed at, Israel started a war that will distract all of us for... well... maybe even weeks (assuming that Israel doesn't go along with the U.S. flip-flop position regarding a ceasefire), which should be more than enough time for the Bush White House to use it's favorite plan: "If at first your war doesn't succeed, start start another one."