Howard Dean on "Face The Nation"

"Today, in [The Washington Post] there was an article that said the troops STILL don't have the proper equipment. What are these people doing that are running the armed forces? I'll tell you what they're doing. People like the President and people like Secretary Rumsfeld are ignoring the advice of career experts like General Shinseki who told them before we went in that we needed adequate equipment and adequate troops. They thrust that aside. These people do not know what they're doing that are running this country. They have no conception of what it is to fight a war because none of them ever have."
-- Howard Dean

Using a question on Intelligent Design, Dean turned it into a comment on Bush and how he ignores facts:

"it never pays to ignore facts. Reason we're in trouble in Iraq? The President didn't care what the facts were. The reason we have an almost $8 trillion national debt? The President didn't care what the facts were. The facts matter. The truth is you can't run a business, a state, a country or a family if you don't care what the facts are."


Dean's four word platform for running against Republicans:

"We can do better."