In which Joe Scarborough skewers Screamin' Howard Dean for his lapdog support of the Obama regime's push for military intervention in Syria, comparing him to one of the lead architects of the Iraq War.
Former DNC chairman Howard Dean supports President Obama’s call for a punitive military strike against Syria.
"Thus far I fully support the president, including his going to Congress," Dean said in an email to The Hill.
The comments from the standard-bearer of the anti-war left during the 2004 campaign could help Obama gain more support among Democrats for votes next week in the House and Senate on his request.
In the House in particular, Obama is likely to have to count on a strong Democratic vote.
Dean's support for punishing Bashar Assad's regime for its alleged use of chemical weapons is particularly noteworthy because the former Vermont governor was the most prominent Iraq war critic during the run-up to the 2003 invasion.I love how Dean falls back on the "Let's not play the blame game..." routine as if the irony is completely lost on him that he repeatedly played "the blame game" when he was running for president back in 2003-2004. Here's what he had to say about the Bush Doctrine back the spring of 2003:
Even the largest, most sophisticated military in the history of the world cannot be expected to go to war against every evil dictator who may possess chemical weapons. This calls for an aggressive and effective diplomatic effort, conducted in full cooperation with a united international community, and preferably with the backing of the multilateral institutions we helped to build for just this purpose. This challenge requires treaties such as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty that this Administration has sometimes treated cavalierly. In any case, war should be a last resort or an option to be used in the face of an imminent threat.Of course, Dean is far from being the only liberal flip-flopper on the issue of military intervention. In the video he insists on talking about the merits of a Syrian intervention. What exactly are the merits of intervening in Syria? In the type of intervention demanded by Obama, not much.
Kerry and Obama insist that the intervention won't drive regime change, which means either that (a) they're telling the truth and we'll just kill some people and destroy some property so that nothing really changes on the ground, or (b) they're lying and want to drive Assad out of power, just as the Libyan intervention collapsed the Moammar Qaddafi regime. How did that work out for our interests, and the West's?
And then there's the little matter of somebody's new look... Portents of a primary challenge to Hillary in 2016?
Howard Dean emerges on Morning Joe with serious dye job. Whoa - http://t.co/RRZ8vhre7F
— Eliana Johnson (@elianayjohnson) September 5, 2013
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