Dean: Only Reason To Fight In Afghanistan--Feminism!
Call him a NOW-hawk . . .
Of all the reasons to send our people to fight and die in Afghanistan, spending $2 billion per week in the process, Howard Dean has managed to come up with perhaps the worst: feminism.
On today's Morning Joe, Dean explained that "the whole reason" he used to support President Obama's waging of the Afghanistan war was that leaving the country would plunge its women back into "the Stone Age." But now that Afghan President Karzai has showed insufficient support for women's right in Dean's eyes, it's time to get out.
View video after the jump.
Consider Dean's vision of the United States military as the armed branch of . . . NOW. Joe Scarborough, who for some time has advocated US withdrawal from Afghanistan, tossed Dean a hanging slider.
JOE SCARBOROUGH: We're spending $2 billion a week in Afghanistan a decade later. Is it time to get out of Afghanistan?
HOWARD DEAN: I think so. I actually had Karzai, President Karzai, change my mind. I was supporting the president and have been for some time, but he came out with this, really basically, thing that would put women back in the Stone Age. The whole reason for my wanting to give the president's strategy a chance was worrying about the 15-odd million Afghan women that would be put back in the Stone Age when we leave, and we are going to leave. Now I think it might as well be sooner rather than later because I can't see a big difference between Hamid Karzai and the Taliban.
SCARBOROUGH: Yeah, it's a disgrace.
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Howard who?
Submitted by Newsbubba on Wed, 04/20/2011 - 10:28am.
"OK, Marines! Go die for the babes! YEE HAAAAAAA!
Meanwhile I'll take my 4F butt and be a ski instructor instead of enlisting during Vietnam."
What a flapping jack wagon.
Howard Dean
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Wed, 04/20/2011 - 10:37am.
Fighting for Howard Dean's right to be feminine?
The truth exposed, now you
Submitted by dscott on Wed, 04/20/2011 - 10:58am.
The truth exposed, now you know why Islam hates the US with such blood lust. Islam sees this as debauchery, immorality, corruption. Now if only Dean and his nutty friends would realize their insistence on pushing the PC agenda in Moslem lands is what is driving their hatred, we would have undercut the radicalism of Osama Bin Laden. This is why we were attacked so many times during the Clinton years culminating in 911 during the first 9 months of the Bush administration. Now those attacks have resumed since Obama has been pushing it again at the UN.
Liberals have no idea how much Muslims hate their guts and Dean just demonstrated why. Rights for women in Moslem lands will only improve as their religious leadership begin to accept that idea. They call the shots, like it or not.
Then why just Afghanistan?
Submitted by JohnMcGrew on Wed, 04/20/2011 - 11:13am.
If you wish to apply his logic consistently, isn't he really suggesting that we should be going to war against Islam itself?
Dean don' need no steenkin'
Submitted by Beukeboom on Wed, 04/20/2011 - 11:49am.
Dean don' need no steenkin' logic!
In that case...
Submitted by Prester John on Wed, 04/20/2011 - 11:15am.
.....Dean needs to ask BHO to send the USMC to some of the Muslim communities here in the U.S. of A. My wife regularly does medical procedures on women (at least one of whom is a native born 'murican) who are dressed like they live in downtown Teheran--black burqa from head to toe, because their husbands make them wear them.
And this is 25 miles from the White House.
And here I though Dean was
Submitted by Beukeboom on Wed, 04/20/2011 - 11:48am.
And here I though Dean was off into another world before...now he shows he's in another imaginary universe altogether. The man has no grasp of reality.
Send NOW,
Submitted by almostacowboy on Wed, 04/20/2011 - 12:05pm.
...now! They're not doing anything for women here.