Dear Howard Dean: What I wanna know...

Remember these words?

"What I want to know is what in the world so many Democrats are doing supporting the President's unilateral intervention in Iraq?"

You said them in March 2003 in Sacramento, California.

I don't hear words like that much anymore. Why?

I thought of them again today when I watched the peace march in DC.   We did not get to go to the one locally because hubby felt bad. So it was special to see it on TV.  It was cut off before the march, though, but that's another story. Another Democrat needs to answer to that.

Other things you said ring true today.  

"I have never lost an election. But my career has never been about winning elections. My career in this campaign is about changing the Democratic Party, it's about changing America, and this campaign is about taking back the White House so we can have health insurance, so we can have a balanced budget, so we can have an inclusive society where everybody believes in each other and believes in America."

"We are not going to beat George Bush by voting with the president 85% of the time. The only way we will beat George Bush is to stand up and say who we are, to lift up a Democratic agenda against the Republican agenda, because if you do that the Democratic agenda wins every time."

I have a real problem now, Governor Dean.  The problem is that I don't hear those words much anymore coming from anyone at all.  

You were told by Reid and Pelosi not to try to set policy.  You have stuck to your job, and you have done it well.  But this statement by you broke my heart.  It was on CNN with Wolf Blitzer on January 12 this year.

DEAN: Our question is what's he doing spending another $6.5 million sending more troops over there when he hasn't done right by the ones that are there already?

BLITZER: So what I hear you saying is you don't necessarily think Russ Feingold, the Democratic senator who's made a proposal to use this power of the purse, that that's the right way to go, at least not yet.

DEAN: I think that, you know, first of all, I don't have a vote here, so I think -- I think I'd like to make it as easy as possible on the leadership. There are differing opinions. There's pretty much unanimity of opinions among Democrats that we don't belong in Iraq.

Thanks for being a good team player, Governor Dean.  But what I wanna know is who is going to say it...we need to get out.