Remember when Saddam was finally caught and everyone from Bush to Kerry was crowing about how this development was a major blow in the Never-ending-war-on-terror, and how Howard Dean had the honesty and foresight to state that we were no safer for this development? Joe Lieberman even said that Dean was "in a spider hole of denial".
History proved Dean to be correct.
More recently, Dean (again with honesty and foresight) declared that: "The "idea that
we're going to win the war in Iraq is an idea which is just plain wrong..."
As was to be expected, Dean was once again raked over the coals by people from both ends of the political spectrum.
But according to Rep. John Murtha (D.-PA), no less than the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Peter Pace has come to the same conclusion. According to Rep. Murtha :
"Speaking before a town hall meeting on Iraq in Arlington, Va., hosted by Rep. Jim Moran, D-Va., Murtha said Pace called him to discuss the war.
"Peter Pace told me this last night: They know militarily they can't win this," Murtha said."
Pace, of course, sticks to the company line that now that the Iraqi's have had yet another election, the insurgency will be dying down. That the recent upsurge in violence is just a blip on the screen. But these guys know that once again, Howard Dean was right and there will be no "Peace With Honor". Just more death and suffering until we get our collective butts out of Iraq.