the below originally posted on

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2003/06/266577.shtml

and "Fred" did such a good job it deserves to be reposted here and on other IMCs

Published on Wednesday, February 26, 2003 by CommonDreams.org

Howard Dean: Hawk in Dove’s Clothing?

by Stephen Zunes

". . . when it came to Israel and Palestine – the former Vermont governor declared that, while the United States should become more engaged, he did not have any fundamental objections with President George W. Bush’s policies. Dean called for an end to Palestinian violence against Israeli civilians, but he did not call for a cessation of Israeli violence against Palestinian civilians. Similarly, there was no call for an end of the Israeli occupation, for Israeli compliance with UN Security Council resolutions, or a withdrawal from Israel’s illegal settlements in the occupied territories or even a freeze on the construction of new settlements."

"When asked by the Jewish newspaper Forward late last year as to whether he supported APN’s perspective, Governor Dean replied ‘No, my view is closer to AIPAC's view.’"

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0226-04.htm



Published on Monday, April 14, 2003 by CommonDreams.org

As Baghdad Falls Howard Dean Folds Back into the National Security Establishment

by Charles Knight

"In effect this supposedly 'anti-war' Democrat has announced his support for a policy in which Washington will decide which countries are allowed to have nuclear weapons and will reserve for itself the right to forcefully disarm those who do not voluntarily disarm by U.S. dictate. In this crucial regard Dean's position is in close accordance with the Bush doctrine of coercive disarmament and preventive war."

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0414-09.htm



Tuesday, June 10, 2003

Presidential Hopefuls Push Energy Alternatives, Pan Kyoto

by Katherine Stapp

"Former Vermont governor Howard Dean has sided most closely with the Bush administration, endorsing the National Governors Association policy, which opposed the Kyoto Protocol unless it included mandatory emissions cuts for developing countries. The policy recommended that the United States "not sign or ratify any agreement that would result in serious harm to the U.S. economy."

"Of the Democrats now running, only Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich has stated, "the U.S. must ratify the Kyoto Protocol."

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0610-01.htm



Published on Tuesday, June 3, 2003 by the Madison Capital Times

Kucinich Draws Crowd, But Not Media

by John Nichols

"Dean, a self-proclaimed fiscal conservative with a so-so record on issues of concern to working people, has been dubbed the acceptable "liberal" by the inside-the-Beltway crowd."

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0603-06.htm



FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

JUNE 3, 2003

3:23 PM

CONTACT: Marijuana Policy Project

Bruce Mirken, 202-462-5747 x113

Medical Marijuana Becomes Presidential Campaign Issue Granite Staters for Medical Marijuana Begins Organizing in New Hampshire

"Vermont Gov. Howard Dean killed a medical marijuana bill that was on the verge of passage in 2002, ignoring pleas from the medical community, AIDS patient groups, and others."

"This week, U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio became the first Democratic candidate to stand up for patients, telling the San Francisco Chronicle on May 29 that he supports legal access to medical marijuana ‘without reservation. ... I have known people who have had cancer and who have been in horrible pain. Anything that can alleviate their suffering should be available.’"

http://www.commondreams.org/news2003/0603-08.htm



FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

APRIL 25, 2002

4:31 PM

CONTACT: Marijuana Policy Project

Bruce Mirken, 202-462-5747 x113

Vermont Senate Panel Approves Medical Marijuana

"’The pundits in Montpelier and elsewhere pronounced the medical marijuana bill dead on arrival when Representative David Zuckerman (P-Burlington) introduced it earlier this year,’ Rogers said. ‘H. 645 has overcome powerful opposition from Governor Howard Dean because courageous medical marijuana patients -- who risk arrest and imprisonment every day -- delivered powerful testimony in House and Senate committees. Patients convinced legislators that seriously ill Vermonters shouldn't go to jail for the simple act of taking their medicine. A vote for H. 645 is a vote to protect patients and a vote against H. 645 is a vote to put sick people in prison.’"

http://www.commondreams.org/news2002/0425-08.htm



Voter Guide

Name: Howard Dean

In short: Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean is the only candidate who has actually killed a medical marijuana bill. Because of Dean's actions, Vermonters with AIDS, cancer, and other terrible illnesses still face arrest and jail under state law for using medical marijuana. In recent statements he has attempted to sound reasonable, but his actions have shown that medical marijuana patients can never trust him. The only reason we give Dean an F+ and not a straight F is because the latter grade should be reserved for Bush, who is as cruel and heartless as anyone could possibly be on the medical marijuana issue.

http://www.GraniteStaters.com/guide/dean.html



February 22, 2003

Meet Howard Dean

The Man from Vermont is Not Green (He's Not Even a Liberal)

by MICHAEL COLBY

"As the son of a wealthy Long Island family (his father was a prominent Wall Street insider), Dean's used to having his golden path well greased. After dutifully attending Yale and then medical school, Dean looked for a state to launch both a private medical practice and a political career. He chose Vermont as much for its beauty as its lenient mood toward carpet bagging politicians, thus joining Brooklynite Bernie Sanders as a born again Vermonter.

Dean became Vermont's accidental governor in 1991 after Governor Richard Snelling died of a heart attack while swimming in his pool. Dean, the lieutenant governor at the time, took the state's political reins and immediately followed through with his promise not to offend the Snelling Republicans who occupied the executive branch. And Dean carried on with his right-leaning centrism for the next eleven, long years."

http://www.counterpunch.org/colby02222003.html



Dean replacing critics on environmental advisory panel

April 8, 2001

(from the Regional news section)

By JOHN DILLON

Staff Writer

MONTPELIER - A leading environmentalist was asked to leave Gov. Howard Dean's council of environmental advisers after she criticized the governor's short-lived proposal for a coal-fired power plant in Vermont.

Elizabeth Courtney, executive director of the Vermont Natural Resources Council, was one of 20 members of the governor's environmental council, which meets about once every three months with the governor.

But after Courtney wrote a newspaper opinion piece faulting Dean for his brief advocacy of a coal plant, she learned she was no longer welcome on the council. David Rocchio, the governor's legal counsel, wrote her late last month to say she will be replaced on the council by VNRC's board chairman. The move came after she had written the governor on energy issues and showed his staff her draft newspaper piece, Courtney said.

http://timesargus.nybor.com/Archive/Articles/Article/23996



Is Howard Dean For Real? Well, Not Entirely

By Morton M. Kondracke

Roll Call Contributing Writer

January 27, 2003

Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean ought to do well in the Iowa Democratic caucuses — unless the anti-war folks out there find out where he really stands on Iraq.

http://www.rollcall.com/pub/48_51/kondracke/273-1.html



Gov. Dean's Slander of Mumia / Protesters

Bob Witanek ( bwitanek@IGC.APC.ORG)

Mon, 19 Aug 1996 21:13:31 -0700

More on Vermont Governor Howard Dean's slanderous attack

against the six protesters arrested last summer during efforts to

halt the execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal. The following is an excerpt from Peter Freyne's column "Inside Track" in the August 7, 1996, issue of Vermont's weekly newspaper, Seven Days.

http://venus.soci.niu.edu/~archives/ABOLISH/summer96/0173.html

Fuck Dean! I agree.

I suppose I'd vote for Kucinich if it was between DK and GW, but that's it for the Dems. Our current system cannot produce worthy candidates, especially from the two corporate parties. Do not look to Presidents to solve anything. To the streets of LA on June 27th.

We hate Muslims. Join us.

Nothing I could say could improve on this report from the Burlington (Vt.) Free Press, on Howard Dean's official announcement of his presidential candidacy yesterday:

How will he win support of Democratic Party leaders, given his frequent criticism of them, a reporter asked Dean at a small morning news conference.

Not a problem, Dean responded. They'll come around once they get to know me.

"It is a bit of a club down there," he continued. "The Democratic Party, all the candidates from Washington, they all know each other, they all move in the same circles, and what I'm doing is breaking into the country club."

Jaws dropped.

Dean's 17-year-old son, Paul, was cited last week for aiding a break-in at the Burlington Country Club. Paul Dean allegedly drove the car while three friends broke into an outbuilding to steal beer.

http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/bfpnews/news/3000h.htm

Dean then asked a press aide: "Why do I say these things?"

You know my college girls that are becoming drunks who got busted drinking underage.

What a pity.

I wont even mention the one who was busted trying to buy prescription drugs and is still in jail.

I'm glad no one remembers these things about GW's family.

It might ruin his credibility.

I'm afraid Dean's chances of getting any type of momentum going is coming to an end before it really ever begins.