Howard Dean: President or people in the Administration mislead us into war

Howard Dean was on CNN yesterday and talked about the United States being mislead into war. Dean said that"either the President mislead us into war and sent our troops to war anyway, or people from the administration withheld that information from the president of the United States."

Here are exceprts from the show (complete transcript here)...

DEAN: That goes to the heart of two issues of this next election is going to be about. One is the qualifications and competency of this president. And the other is the honest and trustworthiness, honesty and trustworthiness of this president. The American people deserve to know if their president is honest."

COLLINS: Governor Dean, you came out yesterday and blasted the president saying that he ignored intelligence on WMD. Are you implying that the president lied about that?

HOWARD DEAN: We don't know, Heidi, once again, whether the president wasn't informed -- in which case the administration is incompetent -- or whether he did know and then he deliberately lied to the American people. We deserve to know that.

So I want the president to declassify that report, let the American people know what did the president know and when did he know it? Did he deliberately mislead us? Or did he do it because people kept information from him in his administration? "

Here is a link to video from some rightwing site.

Thanks to Madfloridian over at DU for posting the transcript and video.