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9/11: Why Hasn?t Dean Found Guilt?
By: Russ Jowski | Submitted on: 01/03/04EDITORIAL - Once again, Democratic frontrunner Howard Dean has opened his mouth and
exhibited his utter inability to understand the current realities of the world.
In an interview with The Concord Monitor, Dean said, in regard to Osama bin Laden?s connection to 9/11, "I've resisted pronouncing a sentence before guilt is found." Clearly, open and voluntary confessions by Osama himself do not count as "finding guilt" to Dean.
Statements by Osama in a video tape just a couple months after the attack, such as "history should be a witness that we are terrorists. Yes, we kill their innocents," and "We will not stop killing them and whoever supports them," must not, in any way, implicate Osama as guilty.
Dean continued by saying "I still have this old-fashioned notion that even with people like Osama ... we should do our best ... not to prejudge jury trials." Confessions do not bestow guilt; only a jury of Osama?s peers is capable of doing so.
Thanks to Ashcroft it might be hard to find a jury of Osama?s peers in America. But luckily for Dean there?s always the New York Times newsroom from which to pull jurors. They can produce a trial at least unbiased as the OJ trial - and probably even the same verdict as well!
Of course, if we had just formed 'civil unions' with the terrorists, maybe a trial would be unnecessary because Osama might not have attacked us in the first place. Good evidence supports this theory: the terrorists did not attack the state of Vermont, the only state allowing civil unions between members of the same sex.
Yet Dean would have you believe that given a second term, Bush, the war hawk that he is, might do just that: invade Vermont.
While an invasion of Vermont might be the only way to ever learn what is in the secret Dean files he sealed while governor of the state, no one but Dean (and maybe Maureen Dowd) would ever accuse Bush of having such a plan. Though accusing Bush of having a plan might sound odd against of the liberal chorus that Bush has "no plan."
If invading Vermont sounds ridiculous, consider again, Dean?s comments about Osama. It would have been no more absurd for Dean to announce that he is not ready to declare the earthquake in Iran guilty of killing thousands of people until it is tried by a jury of its peers.
But let?s not underestimate Dean. Remember, it was Dean who, when asked on April 24 if the Iraqis were better off without Saddam, replied "We don?t know that yet." Then after Saddam?s capture he announced that the world was "no safer" (because, of course, Saddam had been "no threat").
Would the world be better off without earthquakes? We don?t know yet. The world would be no safer without earthquakes and earthquakes are certainly no threat to America.
Luckily for Dean, most of America?s earthquake-threatened population lives in a state he?s going to win - California. Unfortunately for him, with the exception of a handful of Northeastern states and California, Dean has almost no chance against Bush anywhere in the country.
So what is Dean going to do about the "quagmire" that is his presidential campaign? What is his "exit strategy"? Is his back-up plan to enroll in flight school?
After piloting a plane into a building and personally killing thousands of Americans, would Dean, then, have enough evidence to "pronounce" his own guilt? Or would he need to wait until tried by a jury of his peers?
It is doubtful that 82-year old George McGovern would be able to sit on the jury, and even if he could, where are we going to find eleven other communist presidential losers? Eugene Debs died when McGovern was four years old, so he?s not available.
But Dean doesn?t have to become a terrorist (although his policies do express a hatred of America that can only be inspired by the Quran); he can convince some of his followers to do it for him. You will get 72 civil unions in heaven.
In fact, Dean?s reluctance to pronounce Osama guilty might be explained by the similarity between Dean and the al-Qaeda leader. Both are known for their outrageous statements and the mindless cult following they attract.
This is precisely why Dean made the comments that he did. He feels a special kinship with Osama. Both are leaders of cult followings based on the hatred of America.
And both will meet the same fate: defeat.
In an interview with The Concord Monitor, Dean said, in regard to Osama bin Laden?s connection to 9/11, "I've resisted pronouncing a sentence before guilt is found." Clearly, open and voluntary confessions by Osama himself do not count as "finding guilt" to Dean.
Statements by Osama in a video tape just a couple months after the attack, such as "history should be a witness that we are terrorists. Yes, we kill their innocents," and "We will not stop killing them and whoever supports them," must not, in any way, implicate Osama as guilty.
Dean continued by saying "I still have this old-fashioned notion that even with people like Osama ... we should do our best ... not to prejudge jury trials." Confessions do not bestow guilt; only a jury of Osama?s peers is capable of doing so.
Thanks to Ashcroft it might be hard to find a jury of Osama?s peers in America. But luckily for Dean there?s always the New York Times newsroom from which to pull jurors. They can produce a trial at least unbiased as the OJ trial - and probably even the same verdict as well!
Of course, if we had just formed 'civil unions' with the terrorists, maybe a trial would be unnecessary because Osama might not have attacked us in the first place. Good evidence supports this theory: the terrorists did not attack the state of Vermont, the only state allowing civil unions between members of the same sex.
Yet Dean would have you believe that given a second term, Bush, the war hawk that he is, might do just that: invade Vermont.
While an invasion of Vermont might be the only way to ever learn what is in the secret Dean files he sealed while governor of the state, no one but Dean (and maybe Maureen Dowd) would ever accuse Bush of having such a plan. Though accusing Bush of having a plan might sound odd against of the liberal chorus that Bush has "no plan."
If invading Vermont sounds ridiculous, consider again, Dean?s comments about Osama. It would have been no more absurd for Dean to announce that he is not ready to declare the earthquake in Iran guilty of killing thousands of people until it is tried by a jury of its peers.
But let?s not underestimate Dean. Remember, it was Dean who, when asked on April 24 if the Iraqis were better off without Saddam, replied "We don?t know that yet." Then after Saddam?s capture he announced that the world was "no safer" (because, of course, Saddam had been "no threat").
Would the world be better off without earthquakes? We don?t know yet. The world would be no safer without earthquakes and earthquakes are certainly no threat to America.
Luckily for Dean, most of America?s earthquake-threatened population lives in a state he?s going to win - California. Unfortunately for him, with the exception of a handful of Northeastern states and California, Dean has almost no chance against Bush anywhere in the country.
So what is Dean going to do about the "quagmire" that is his presidential campaign? What is his "exit strategy"? Is his back-up plan to enroll in flight school?
After piloting a plane into a building and personally killing thousands of Americans, would Dean, then, have enough evidence to "pronounce" his own guilt? Or would he need to wait until tried by a jury of his peers?
It is doubtful that 82-year old George McGovern would be able to sit on the jury, and even if he could, where are we going to find eleven other communist presidential losers? Eugene Debs died when McGovern was four years old, so he?s not available.
But Dean doesn?t have to become a terrorist (although his policies do express a hatred of America that can only be inspired by the Quran); he can convince some of his followers to do it for him. You will get 72 civil unions in heaven.
In fact, Dean?s reluctance to pronounce Osama guilty might be explained by the similarity between Dean and the al-Qaeda leader. Both are known for their outrageous statements and the mindless cult following they attract.
This is precisely why Dean made the comments that he did. He feels a special kinship with Osama. Both are leaders of cult followings based on the hatred of America.
And both will meet the same fate: defeat.
