DR. DEAN, DR. EVIL....WHATEVER

On the campaign trail today, Howard Dean dismissed the killing of Uday and Qusay Hussein saying, “The ends do not justify the means.” Ok, let’s guess what exactly Dean means by that. Does he mean that they deserved death? How, exactly, would you have accomplished this noble aim of yours, Dr. Dean, without American soldiers pulling the trigger? Wait for a popular insurgency, perhaps? Maybe Dr. Dean, in his mad rush to God-knows-where, hasn’t heard of bootleg videos on the streets of Iraq showing home movies of executions. They are being purchased by families in search of the whereabouts of their missing children, parents and cousins. That’s what happened to popular uprisings in Iraq, Dr. Dean. Maybe you were thinking assassination? I believe that your party thirty years ago was so offended by that concept, President Ford issued an executive order against political assassinations and six years later your anathema President Reagan re-affirmed it.

Or maybe you don’t mean anything by it, maybe you were spewing forth a sound bite to get past a situation you didn’t want to have to deal with. You’re good at that, you did that in the Russert interview and your campaign staff has never answered the question I have posed to you, “When exactly do you believe life begins?” More likely, what you meant was, "There was no reason to depose Saddam Hussein, all that did was make President Bush look good and make it harder for me to convince the people are worse off with him as President ." If you happen to capture the Democratic nomination for President, I for one will never let you forget you magic phrase, “The ends don’t justify the means”.