Aug 31 2003
Letter to Time
Governor Dean writes a letter to Time magazine:
I deeply appreciated your article “The Cool Passion of Dr. Dean,” but I must correct one thing. You said I seem to regard the use of U.S. military power with “a mixture of contempt and suspicion.” I supported American military intervention in the first Gulf War and in Afghanistan, which I considered to be a matter of U.S. national security. I did not back President Bush’s attack on Iraq because I thought that the American people were not being told the truth about the reasons for invading. I do not believe any President should be given blanket authority to invade another nation unless the President sets forth clear and truthful reasons. That does not make me contemptuous of using military power; it makes me a candidate who is more judicious in the use of U.S. military power than President Bush and many of my Democratic competitors.
HOWARD DEAN
South Burlington, Vt.
