Howard Dean wants to pull America out of Iraq.
In yesterday evening’s Democratic presidential debate, Howard Dean came out in support of pulling US troops out of Iraq. (*) He said: “We need more troops. They’re going to be foreign troops, not more American troops, as they should have been in the first place. Ours need to come home.” This represents a 180? pivot from his earlier position of keeping US troops in Iraq until the job is done.
Pulling our troops out of Iraq now would do great damage to the US’s standing in the world. It is shocking that the Democratic Party frontrunner would take such a radical position.
Update: 8 December 2003. Linked by Obsidian Wings which also has a good analysis of Dean’s Iraq policy. (†)