Dean got shit for saying that we weren't safer post-Saddam, nevermind that he was objectively, by any measure correct.
And the facts bear it out.
The strategic [intelligence] indicators, including al Qaeda's continued desire to carry out attacks against our homeland, are perhaps greater now than at any point since September 11th," Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said at an impromptu news conference yesterday.
Ok, so Americans in the US are not safer. That's now been confirmed by a top administration official. But things are surely safer in
Iraq, right?
A roadside bomb killed two U.S. soldiers in Baghdad on Monday, hours after troops captured a former general in Saddam Hussein's once-feared security services on charges of recruiting ex-soldiers to attack Americans.
The blast that ripped through a military convoy in the late morning also killed an Iraqi interpreter and wounded two other soldiers, the U.S. military said in a statement [...]
The U.S. military said eight soldiers were wounded during raids in the mainly Sunni Muslim al-Anbar province which netted 40 "enemy personnel." It did not say how the soldiers were hurt but added that one was evacuated to a combat support hospital.
A military convoy was hit with an explosive device near the town of Habbaniyah, seriously wounding one soldier. Another three soldiers had minor wounds, a military statement said [...]
A U.S. soldier was wounded by small arms fire in an attack in the northern town of Mosul on Monday morning, the U.S. military said.
In fact, we've lost
eight Americans since Saddam's capture, with many more wounded.
So how was Howard Dean wrong when he said Americans weren't safer?