Much will be made, rightly, of Howard Dean’s defeatist statement declaring that the United States can’t and won’t win in Iraq. What I find to be worst of his statements, though, is buried in a little sentence inside the story--a little sentence that might give people with short memories the wrong impression on the choices that the United States had before deciding to go to war with Saddam Hussein.

President Bush got rid of Saddam Hussein and that was a great thing, but that could have been done in a very different way.

While that first bit is merely ass covering. It takes away the possible finger-pointing retort of, “What, you would prefer that Saddam Hussein were still in power?” But Dean, demonstrably, does not mean that it was a great thing that Saddam Hussein was removed.

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