Terri
01-04-2004, 09:54 PM
Rivals Target Front-Runner Dean in Iowa Debate
Fox News
January 4, 2003
JOHNSTON, Iowa — Howard Dean drew fire from fellow Democrats on Sunday over trade, terror, taxes and more in the first debate of the election year, then calmly dismissed his rivals as "co-opted by the agenda of George Bush."
"I opposed the Iraq war when everyone else up here was for it," said the former Vermont governor, invoking the issue that helped fuel his 2003 transformation from asterisk in the polls to front-runner.
Dean's all-purpose rebuttal came midway through a debate 15 days before the Iowa caucuses, the first contest for national convention delegates who will select a Democratic challenger to President Bush.
More (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,107332,00.htm l)
Fox News
January 4, 2003
JOHNSTON, Iowa — Howard Dean drew fire from fellow Democrats on Sunday over trade, terror, taxes and more in the first debate of the election year, then calmly dismissed his rivals as "co-opted by the agenda of George Bush."
"I opposed the Iraq war when everyone else up here was for it," said the former Vermont governor, invoking the issue that helped fuel his 2003 transformation from asterisk in the polls to front-runner.
Dean's all-purpose rebuttal came midway through a debate 15 days before the Iowa caucuses, the first contest for national convention delegates who will select a Democratic challenger to President Bush.
More (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,107332,00.htm l)