America through the looking glass.
... anyway, we all know how this one will progress. The right wing media will spin this as Dean loves Bin Laden. The more "reasonable" pundits like the TNR crowd will then pull a Sam Donaldson and say, well, you know, of course he's right, really, but he shouldn't say things quite in that way. After all, these days things like due process just aren't very popular and Dean should know that. Of course, they won't be referring to what he actually said, but rather how what he said was spun...
Welcome to campaign '04. It's gonna be a fun ride.
And, if asked about this Dean should say something along the lines of "How dare you question my desire to bring the 9/11 perpetrators to trial. I've been saying for months we need to devote our efforts to getting Bin Laden. It's absolutely un-American to suggest that anyone, no matter how heinous the crime or obvious the guilt, doesn't and shouldn't deserve a fair trial under our Judicial system, as our Founders, in their wisdom, desired. Fuck you Judy Woodruff."
Well, maybe not that last part.
