There is a new petition to presidential candidate Howard Dean to request a response to hawkish statements he has made about the Palestinian/Israeli conflict and his relationship with AIPAC. The purpose is to get feedback from his campaign to 'set the record straight' and to let him know that he is losing a lot of voters on this issue.

Please go to http://www.stop-us-military-aid-to-israel.net/deanpetition/ to help us express our concerns to Dean. Be sure to go to your email after you sign and confirm by clicking the link that is sent. This is to add integrity to the petition.

Thank you for your participation!

Fuck Dean.

The mainstream media had portrayed Dean as a revolutionary because of his stance of the Iraq war. He supported both the first gulf war and the Afghanistan war. Don't be fooled by the rhetoric. He's a hawk.

The Associated Press has waddled in with a dispatch titiled "Democrat Dean Attracts Few Faces of Color." Howard Dean's explanation for his failure to win backing from blacks and other minorities has a patronizing, even racist, sound to it:

"Asked why most of his supporters, particularly at the Meetup sessions, are white, Dean readily acknowledged that his support has been from the ground up, while attracting minorities must be done from the top down.

"You've got to go to the leadership in those communities. You can't just do the grass roots without the blessing of the leaders," Dean said last week."

http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-dean-minorities,0,2689754.story

Meanwhile, the Jerusalem Post quotes Dean as uttering one of those bloopers that the media would trumpet as proof of his stupidity if he were a Republican. Asked about his views on the Israeli-Arab conflict, here's what he said:

"The two-state solution is a solution that I support and I believe is the ultimate way to peace in the Middle East. And we're going to have to be the honest broker. The Americans are the only people who can broker that, and I wish the president had spent more time on the Middle East and less time on Iraq."

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/ShowFull%6cid=1063017949701

More time in the Mideast and less time in Iraq? That's like saying you should get out of Indianapolis and go to the Midwest.