Howard Dean has once again opened his mouth and jammed his foot in it. Not only is his plan only a minor modification of Murtha’s plan for immediate withdrawal (something that was only voted down by about 400 votes in the House of Representatives), but it also shows a willful misunderstanding of how the National Guard works, an intentional partisan disregard for the good things that are really happening on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Either this is really a brilliant long-term political move to keep the extreme left flank of the Democratic party happy for the next few years as Hillary Clinton moderates her public image to make her more palatable to the American public in 2008 (presumably followed by a tearful and well-covered endorsement of Hillary by Dean, thus allowing Hillary to hold both wings of her party), or Dean is really an enormous idiot.
I wonder what athlete’s tonsil is like…