1995 terror warning memo covered up
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Topic: Lib Loser Stories

It has become accepted wisdom that a contributing factor in the 9/11 attacks was a lack of coordination, even competition, between various law enforcement and intelligence organizations. Clinton administration Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick, who later served on the 9/11 commision, created the policy that seperated the organizations.

This led U.S. Attorney for New York's Southern District Mary Jo White to write a memo in 1995 that warned the Justice Department that Gorelick's policy would hamper U.S. counterterrorism efforts. The Commision apparently covered up this memo.

9/11 Commission Covered Up Gorelick Warning

A 1995 memo from a top terrorism prosecutor warning that a directive by Clinton administration Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick "could cost lives" is being concealed by the 9/11 Commission.

Compounding the cover-up, Gorelick herself was a prominent member of the Commission and refused to recuse herself from parts of the 9/11 investigation that covered the now notorious "wall" she erected that prevented intelligence and law enforcement agencies from cooperating in the war on terror.

In June 1995, U.S. Attorney for New York's Southern District Mary Jo White warned the Justice Department that Gorelick's prohibition against intelligence sharing would hamper U.S. counterterrorism efforts.

"It is hard to be totally comfortable with instructions to the FBI prohibiting contact with the United States Attorney's Offices when such prohibitions are not legally required," White wrote on June 13, 1995, in a memo reported Friday by the New York Post's Deborah Orin.

"The most effective way to combat terrorism is with as few labels and walls as possible so that wherever permissible, the right and left hands are communicating," advised White, who was then in the midst of prosecuting the 1993 World Trade Center bombers.

According to Orin, however, "White was so upset that she bitterly protested with another memo - a scathing one" - blasting Gorelick's wall of separation.

While the former Clinton official and her fellow 9/11 commissioners have so far declined to make the second memo public, the Post reports that White used it to warn that Gorelick's wall "hindered law enforcement and could cost lives."

The 9/11 Commission omitted any mention of White's scathing second warning to Gorelick from its final report.

"Nor does the report include the transcript of its staff interview with White," the Post said.

The revelation that the 9/11 Commission covered up White's full account comes on the heels of news that Gorelick's wall may have prevented the FBI from learning that lead 9/11 hijackers Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi had entered the U.S. and had been identified by military intelligence as terrorist threats a year before the attacks.

On Wednesday, Rep. Curt Weldon, who uncovered the Atta-al-Shehhi revelation, complained: "There was no reason not to share this information with the FBI, except that the firewalls that existed back then were so severe that they wouldn't let these agencies talk to one another."

News Max.com ~ Carl Limbacher ** 9/11 Commission Covered Up Gorelick Warning

U.S. Forces Raid Iraq Chemical Facility
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In this undated photo provided by the U.S. military, chemical production equipment is seen after U.S. troops raided as suspected chemical productions facility in northern Iraq. More than 1500 gallons of various chemicals were found at the site. >>>>>

U.S. Raids Suspected Chem Facility in Iraq

BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. troops raided a suspected insurgent chemical weapons factory in northern Iraq, finding about 1,500 gallons of dangerous substances, the U.S. military said Saturday.

Lt. Col. Steve Boylan, a military spokesman, said 11 chemicals were found in the hideout in Mosul, 225 miles northwest of Baghdad, "which are dangerous by themselves, and mixed together they would become even more dangerous."

"Our feeling at this point is that had this stuff been mixed and used, it could have been very easily used against Iraqi and coalition forces," Boylan said.

The military cautioned in a statement, however, that ongoing testing at the facility was "insufficient to determine what the insurgents had been producing" and that further tests were required.

U.S. troops, acting on a tip from detainees under interrogation, raided the building Tuesday, the statement said. The military did not say if anyone was detained in the raid and said it was investigating which insurgent group was operating the facility.

The military has found many suspected chemical sites in the past, none of which ended up containing chemical or biological weapons. Testing of such sites can take several days.

Boylan said the materials did not appear to be linked to Saddam Hussein's ousted regime.

The U.S. invaded Iraq in March 2003 to destroy Saddam's purported unconventional weapons of mass destruction. None were ever found.

U.S. arms investigators have said there was evidence that Iraqi resistance groups had tried to manufacture chemical weapons. The information was disclosed in the final report of Charles A. Duelfer's Iraq Survey Group, the account of its fruitless 18-month hunt for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

In an annex to the Duelfer report, the joint CIA - Pentagon teams told of having broken up an insurgent group in June 2004 that for six months tried to make weapons agents.

The group had recruited a Baghdad chemist and obtained chemicals from farmers who looted state companies and from shops in Baghdad's chemicals market, the report said. They first tried to make tabun, a nerve agent, but could not get the ingredients. Then the chemist, who had no weapons-making experience, was unable to manufacture the blistering agent mustard, although he had the right chemicals, the report said.

The insurgents hired another chemist, who succeeded in making ricin base, a poisonous plant extract, from castor beans, but at that point a U.S. raid on the laboratory, at Baghdad's al-Abud trading complex, disrupted the network.

The Duelfer account also said various sources reported insurgents were trying to produce chemical weapons elsewhere in Iraq.

In November, U.S. and Iraqi forces that overran Fallujah reported finding an insurgent lab which included the poisonous industrial compound hydrogen cyanide and a book of instructions for making potential chemical weapons.

Weeks earlier, Jordanian authorities said they had foiled planned chemical attacks by suicide bombers on Jordanian government targets. They said the plot was conceived by Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi, leader of the al-Qaida wing in Iraq.

Yahoo News ~ Associated Press - Antonio Castaneda ** U.S. Raids Suspected Chem Facility in Iraq

Atta Details Omitted From Sept. 11 Report
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Atta Details Omitted From Sept. 11 Report

WASHINGTON - The Sept. 11 commission knew military intelligence officials had identified lead hijacker Mohamed Atta as a member of al-Qaida who might be part of U.S.-based terror cell more than a year before the terror attacks but decided not to include that in its final report, a spokesman acknowledged Thursday.

Al Felzenberg, spokesman for the commission's follow-up project called the 9/11 Public Discourse Project, had said earlier this week that the panel was unaware of intelligence specifically naming Atta. But he said subsequent information provided Wednesday confirmed that the commission had been aware of the intelligence.

The information did not make it into the final report because it was not consistent with what the commission knew about Atta's whereabouts before the attacks, Felzenberg said.

The intelligence about Atta recently was disclosed by Rep. Curt Weldon, vice chairman of the House Armed Services and Homeland Security committees. The Pennsylvania Republican has expressed anger that the intelligence never was forwarded by the military establishment to the FBI.

The discourse project, Pentagon and at least two congressional committees are looking into the issue. If found accurate, the intelligence would change the timeline for when government officials first became aware of Atta's links to al-Qaida.

According to Weldon, a classified military intelligence unit called "Able Danger" identified Atta and three other hijackers in 1999 as potential members of a terrorist cell in New York City. Weldon said Pentagon lawyers rejected the unit's recommendation that the information be turned over to the FBI in 2000.

According to Pentagon documents, the information was not shared because of concerns about pursuing information on "U.S. persons," a legal term that includes U.S. citizens as well as foreigners legally admitted to the country.

Felzenberg said an unidentified person working with Weldon came forward Wednesday and described a meeting 10 days before the panel's report was issued last July. During it, a military official urged commission staffers to include a reference to the intelligence on Atta in the final report.

Felzenberg said checks were made and the details of the July 12, 2004, meeting were confirmed. Previous to that, Felzenberg said it was believed commission staffers knew about Able Danger from a meeting with military officials in Afghanistan during which no mention was made of Atta or the other three hijackers.

Staff members now are searching documents in the National Archives to look for notes from the meeting in Afghanistan and any other possible references to Atta and Able Danger, Felzenberg said.

Felzenberg sought to minimize the significance of the new information.

"Even if it were valid, it would've joined the lists of dozens of other instances where information was not shared," Felzenberg said. "There was a major problem with intelligence sharing."

Weldon on Wednesday wrote to Thomas Kean, chairman of the 9/11 commission, and Lee Hamilton, the vice chairman, asking for information to be sought that would look at why the information was not passed on by Pentagon lawyers to the FBI.

His letter also asks the commissioners to find out why the panel's staff members did not pass the information about Able Danger onto commission members and provide full documentation.

Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and his House counterpart, Michigan Rep. Peter Hoekstra, are looking into the issue.

News Max.com ~ Associated Press ** Atta Details Omitted From Sept. 11 Report

Clinton Lawyers: Mohamed Atta Off-Limits
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Topic: Lib Loser Stories

Clinton Lawyers: Mohamed Atta Off-Limits

A year before the 9/11 attacks, Clinton administration lawyers told a group of military intelligence officers that information they had developed on 9/11 ringleader Mohamed Atta could not be shared with the FBI, saying of Atta himself: "You can't even touch him - it doesn't matter what information you have."

Rep. Curt Weldon, who helped develop the military intelligence group code-named "Able Danger," delivered the bombshell revelation in an interview Thursday with WABC Radio host Sean Hannity.

WELDON: In September of 2000 we tried on three occasions to take the information we had developed and pass it along to the FBI so they could follow up and take action against this [al-Qaida] cell and perhaps bring in Atta and question him and do whatever else was necessary.

Three times we were turned down by lawyers in the administration.

HANNITY: We're talking about lawyers in the Clinton administration?

WELDON: Yes, it was the Clinton administration. Lawyers said there were two reasons why you can't do that. And they even put stickies over the face of Mohamed Atta on this chart they had. They said: "He's here legally. He's either got a green card or he's got a visa. So you can't even touch him - it doesn't matter what information you have." [END OF EXCERPT]

Moments later, Weldon said he was determined to find out who it was who ultimately gave the order to protect the lead 9/11 hijacker.

WELDON: The American people need to have answers. They need to have answers about who made the decision to stop our military intelligence from sharing information with the FBI, and how high up the ladder that went.

Did it stop at DoD? Or was the Justice Department involved in that decision? Or was the White House involved in that decision? [END OF EXCERPT]

News Max.com ~ Carl Limbacher ** Clinton Lawyers: Mohamed Atta Off-Limits

The real relationship between Cindy Sheehan and her son... 'Not In My Name'
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Topic: Yahoo Chat Stuff

This is a leaflet for the event in which Ms. Sheehan was a guest speaker along with Lynne Stewart:

Right Nation.US Blog ** Not In My Name

Pirro beats Hillary in online poll
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Topic: Yahoo Chat Stuff

It isn't scientific, but what matters is that this embarrasment, tied to the sudden sharp decline in Senator Hillary's poll numbers spell some trouble for her. If she is going to use her Senate position as a launching pad for her presidential campaign then she needs be be seen winning solidly. There are a lot of Dems who are happy to see her struggle and that is the real story here.

Pirro Leads Clinton in Online Poll

Westchester County District Attorney Jeanine Pirro was leading Sen. Hillary Clinton in an online poll Thursday night conducted by the most listened-to radio station in New York, 1010 WINS.

With over 3,000 New Yorkers responding, Pirro led Clinton by six-tenths of a point, 50.30 percent to 49.70 percent.

Though the WINS survey is unscientific, it continues a trend that began this week after Pirro announced she intended to challenge Mrs. Clinton.

A Marist College poll released on Wednesday showed Clinton defeating Pirro, 50 percent to 28 percent. But while Pirro's number hadn't budged from an earlier survey in April, Clinton's support plummeted by 14 points.

News Max.com ~ Carl Limbacher ** Pirro Leads Clinton in Online Poll

Humane Society turns radical
Mood:  spacey
Topic: Lib Loser Stories

Think the Human Society is about getting stray kittens and puppies adopted? The Humane Society is growing increasingly radical, turning into a PETA in a suit and tie. Their budget includes a pro-Vegan propaganda piece that overstates the fat content in chicken. What does this have to do with finding snowball a home and supporting tough laws against people who abuse housepets? Great question.

Vegan (Mis)information From HSUS

Meat-eaters would be forgiven for thinking People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is the biggest, baddest group of animal rights radicals on the block. But with vegan-diet proponent Wayne Pacelle at the helm, the comparatively gargantuan Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) is poised to make a push for strict vegetarianism as the centerpiece of its $95 million annual budget. And if the group's new "Guide to Vegetarian Eating" is any indication, HSUS's anti-meat game plan will include the subtle use of misinformation.

The HSUS "Guide" isn't just an anti-sirloin starter kit. Its menus and glossary include directions for abandoning milk, cheese, eggs, butter, and fish as well -- making this a vegetarian guide in name only. In truth, it's a guide to vegan eating and an indication that HSUS may be trying to blur the distinction between the two.

HSUS's guide includes an apparently intentional misstatement about the nutritional content of chicken. "Even when the chicken's skin is removed, the dark meat is thrown away, and a nonfat cooking method is used," HSUS writes, "chicken is still 23 percent fat." [see page 9]

How did they get this so wrong? Well, the animal-rights-affiliated Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) has been using nearly the same language since at least 2000, insisting: "Even when the skin is removed, dark meat is thrown away, and a non-fat cooking method is used, chicken is still 23 percent fat." In 2001 we stopped PCRM president Neal Barnard during a Maryland book-signing appearance and got him to concede that what PCRM meant to say was that chicken got 23 percent of its calories from fat.

That's a big difference, and one that HSUS may want to correct. As the helpful NutritionData website points out, a 140-gram serving of roasted, white meat chicken has only 5 grams of fat. That's less than four percent. And the leanest chicken gets 20 percent of its calories from fat, not 23.

If this makes chicken seem like a fat-dense food, consider that avocados get a whopping 77 percent of their calories from fat and raw soybeans have a calories-from-fat ratio of 39 percent. So chicken is no more fat-heavy than vegan-friendly tofu or guacamole. Interested in an HSUS-approved food with approximately the same fat/calorie numbers as chicken's purported 23 percent? We found one that's perfect for these food purists: wheat germ.

Center for Consumer Freedom ** Vegan (Mis)information From HSUS

Family of Bush protest mom pleads: Please Stop, Cindy!
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Topic: Yahoo Chat Stuff

FAMILY OF FALLEN SOLDIER PLEADS: PLEASE STOP, CINDY!

The family of American soldier Casey Sheehan, who was killed in Iraq on April 4, 2004, has broken its silence and spoken out against his mother Cindy Sheehan's anti-war vigil against George Bush held outside the president's Crawford, Texas ranch.

The following email was received by the DRUDGE REPORT from Casey's aunt and godmother:

Our family has been so distressed by the recent activities of Cindy we are breaking our silence and we have collectively written a statement for release. Feel free to distribute it as you wish.

Thanks, Cherie

In response to questions regarding the Cindy Sheehan/Crawford Texas issue: Sheehan Family Statement:

The Sheehan Family lost our beloved Casey in the Iraq War and we have been silently, respectfully grieving. We do not agree with the political motivations and publicity tactics of Cindy Sheehan. She now appears to be promoting her own personal agenda and notoriety at the the expense of her son's good name and reputation. The rest of the Sheehan Family supports the troops, our country, and our President, silently, with prayer and respect.

Sincerely,

Casey Sheehan's grandparents, aunts, uncles and numerous cousins.

Drudge Report Exclusive ** Family of Bush protest mom pleads: Please Stop, Cindy!

9/11 Commission's Staff Rejected Report on Early Identification of Chief Hijacker... libtards silent
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9/11 Commission's Staff Rejected Report on Early Identification of Chief Hijacker

By Douglas Jehl and Philip Shenon, NY Times

Correction Appended

WASHINGTON - The Sept. 11 commission was warned by a uniformed military officer 10 days before issuing its final report that the account would be incomplete without reference to what he described as a secret military operation that by the summer of 2000 had identified as a potential threat the member of Al Qaeda who would lead the attacks more than a year later, commission officials said on Wednesday.

The officials said that the information had not been included in the report because aspects of the officer's account had sounded inconsistent with what the commission knew about that Qaeda member, Mohammed Atta, the plot's leader.

But aides to the Republican congressman who has sought to call attention to the military unit that conducted the secret operation said such a conclusion relied too much on specific dates involving Mr. Atta's travels and not nearly enough on the operation's broader determination that he was a threat.

The briefing by the military officer is the second known instance in which people on the commission's staff were told by members of the military team about the secret program, called Able Danger.

The meeting, on July 12, 2004, has not been previously disclosed. That it occurred, and that the officer identified Mr. Atta there, were acknowledged by officials of the commission after the congressman, Curt Weldon of Pennsylvania, provided information about it.

Mr. Weldon has accused the commission of ignoring information that would have forced a rewriting of the history of the Sept. 11 attacks. He has asserted that the Able Danger unit, whose work relied on computer-driven data-mining techniques, sought to call their superiors' attention to Mr. Atta and three other future hijackers in the summer of 2000. Their work, he says, had identified the men as likely members of a Qaeda cell already in the United States.

In a letter sent Wednesday to members of the commission, Mr. Weldon criticized the panel in scathing terms, saying that its "refusal to investigate Able Danger after being notified of its existence, and its recent efforts to feign ignorance of the project while blaming others for supposedly withholding information on it, brings shame on the commissioners, and is evocative of the worst tendencies in the federal government that the commission worked to expose."

Al Felzenberg, who served as the commission's chief spokesman, said earlier this week that staff members who were briefed about Able Danger at a first meeting, in October 2003, did not remember hearing anything about Mr. Atta or an American terrorist cell. On Wednesday, however, Mr. Felzenberg said the uniformed officer who briefed two staff members in July 2004 had indeed mentioned Mr. Atta.

Both Mr. Weldon's office and commission officials said they knew the name, rank and service of the officer, but they declined to make that information public.

Mr. Weldon and a former defense intelligence official who was interviewed on Monday have said that the Able Danger team sought but failed in the summer of 2000 to persuade the military's Special Operations Command, in Tampa, Fla., to pass on to the Federal Bureau of Investigation the information they had gathered about Mr. Atta and the three other men. The Pentagon and the Special Operations Command have declined to comment, saying they are still trying to learn more about what may have happened.

Maj. Paul Swiergosz, a Pentagon spokesman, said Wednesday that the military was working with the commission's unofficial follow-up group - the 9/11 Public Discourse Project, which was formed by the panel's members when it was disbanded - to try to clarify what had occurred.

Mr. Felzenberg said the commission's staff remained convinced that the information provided by the military officer in the July 2004 briefing was inaccurate in a significant way.

"He wasn't brushed off," Mr. Felzenberg said of the officer. "I'm not aware of anybody being brushed off. The information that he provided us did not mesh with other conclusions that we were drawing" from the commission's investigation.

Mr. Felzenberg said staff investigators had become wary of the officer because he argued that Able Danger had identified Mr. Atta, an Egyptian, as having been in the United States in late 1999 or early 2000. The investigators knew this was impossible, Mr. Felzenberg said, since travel records confirmed that he had not entered the United States until June 2000.

"There was no way that Atta could have been in the United States at that time, which is why the staff didn't give this tremendous weight when they were writing the report," Mr. Felzenberg said. "This information was not meshing with the other information that we had."

But Russell Caso, Mr. Weldon's chief of staff, said that "while the dates may not have meshed" with the commission's information, the central element of the officer's claim was that "Mohammed Atta was identified as being tied to Al Qaeda and a Brooklyn cell more than a year before the Sept. 11 attacks, and that should have warranted further investigation by the commission."

"Furthermore," Mr. Caso said, "if Mohammed Atta was identified by the Able Danger project, why didn't the Department of Defense provide that information to the F.B.I.?"

Mr. Felzenberg confirmed an account by Mr. Weldon's staff that the briefing, at the commission's offices in Washington, had been conducted by Dietrich L. Snell, one of the panel's lead investigators, and had been attended by a Pentagon employee acting as an observer for the Defense Department; over the commission's protests, the Bush administration had insisted that an administration "minder" attend all the panel's major interviews with executive branch employees. Mr. Snell referred questions to Mr. Felzenberg.

The Sept. 11 commission issued its final report on July 22, 2004. Mr. Felzenberg noted that the interview with the military officer had taken place in the final, hectic days before the commission sent the report to the printers, and said the meeting reflected a willingness by the commission to gather facts, even at the last possible minute.

"Lots of stuff was coming in over the transom," Mr. Felzenberg said. "Lots of stuff was flying around. At the end of the day, when you're writing the report, you have to take facts presented to you."

Correction:

A headline in some copies yesterday about a military officer who told the staff of the 9/11 commission that a secret unit had identified the leader of the attacks as a potential threat a year beforehand misstated the staff's reaction. As the article said, the statement was reviewed and rejected because its description of the movements of the plot leader did not match travel records. It was not ignored.

NY Times ~ Douglas Jehl and Philip Shenon ** 9/11 Commission's Staff Rejected Report on Early Identification of Chief Hijacker

Deanpeace latest: SS plan 'nutty,'... says 'New England Republicans Are Different - Don't Get As Many Right-Wing Wackos'
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Topic: Lib Loser Stories

Coward Deanpeace calls SS plan 'nutty,' links all of Wall Street to Enron, and says 'New England Republicans Are Different… Don't Get As Many Right-Wing Wackos'

Dean Speaks at N.H. Democratic Fundraiser

CONCORD, N.H. - The best kind of campaign finance reform is to do it yourself, Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean said Wednesday.

Dean shook hands and talked strategy at an afternoon gathering to raise money for the New Hampshire Democratic Party.

In his latest role as Democratic National Committee chairman, his message was: It's time for Democrats to return to the White House.

Dean greeted the party faithful at a fundraiser at the Common Man restaurant, shook hands and continued his 50-state strategy tour to energize Democrats by reaching out to the party base.

With the next presidential election still three years away and no clear Democratic frontrunner, Dean stressed the importance of grassroots organization in an effort to remove Republicans from power in the nation's capital.

"We do intend to refinance the Democratic Party ... by depending on ordinary working men and women in America who want something better for our country and who believe that the present adminstration is leading us in the wrong direction," he said.

Reaching out to smaller donors is needed to "buy back our government from the corporations that have paid George Bush to run it," he said.

"President Bush's numbers are the lowest of his term and he deserves that," Dean said to applause. "We need to buy back our government from the corporations that have paid George Bush to run it."

Sporting a shirt calling for support to save the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine, from being closed, Democratic National Committee Chairman and former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean talks with New Hampshire Democrats during a fundraiser Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2005, in Concord, N.H. >>>>>

Dean detailed his 50-state strategy to hire and finance from national coffers organizers in every state, including Republican strongholds. He said the party is on track to have organizers in every state by the end of the year.

Dean called Bush's plan to privatize Social Security "a nutty scheme" that would hand the money "to the people who brought us Enron," a reference to the corporate fraud case involving leaders of that company.

"Americans do not want to privatize social security," he said. "They're too smart to turn social security over to the people who ran Enron."

In response, Danny Lopez Diaz of the Republican National Commitee called on to "come up with a solution to fix Social Security, rather than attack those demonstrating the leadership to address the issue."

Dean also said Democrats must do more than spout off about their opponents. He said Democrats must stand for a balanced budget, health care reform, election reform and a broader defense policy that reduces the country's reliance on foreign oil and ensures soldiers get the equipment they need to protect themselves.

"The burden of proof is on us," he said. "Our job is not just to say what we don't like about the president. Our job is to make sure that when we get in (the White House), we earn the right to stay."

Dean also applauded New Hampshire Democrats for leading the charge in the state's turn to "blue" in the last election. While New Hampshire went for President George W. Bush in 2000, Kerry won the state's four electoral votes in 2004 in his unsuccessful bid for president.

The chairman stressed the need for a unified party to carry the successful formula New Hampshire presented in the last election.

"We need to frame the debate and set the debate," Dean said. "We need to tell Americans what Democrats stand for and not let Karl Rove do it."

Pundits across the nation have said the last election was won on moral values, but Dean said it is the Democratic Party which stands on morality, not Republicans. He said Democrats stand for fiscal restraint, health insurance for all, election reform and better defense and energy policies.

He also said Republicans in this area are easier to deal with than most.

"New England Republicans are different than most. They are more reasonable and thoughtful," Dean said. "You don't get as many right-wing wackos."

Dean, as a candidate, pledged support for New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation primary. When reporters pressed him to offer the same support as chairman, he simply said: "Good try."

Yahoo News ~ Associated Press - Anne Saunders ** Dean Speaks at N.H. Democratic Fundraiser

Fosters Online, Dover, NH ~ N.H. Statehouse Writer Colin Manning ** Dean works to energize state's Democratic Party