This is how Howard Dean defends his statement that the capture of Saddam has not made America safer:

I think the Democratic Party has to offer a clear alternative to the American people. The capture of one bad man doesn't mean the president and Washington Democrats can declare victory in the war on terrorism.

Huh? When did Bush or anyone in his administration "declare victory?"

What I heard them say was that this doesn't mean that violence is at an end. So Dean is using the Democratic sophistry of putting words in the mouth of his opponents and attacking those instead of the real positions of the president. So his "clear alternative" is offered to something that isn't in fact Bush's true position. More and more it appears that Howard Dean's whole candidacy is based on his blind, ignorant rage, which seems to be the mood of the Democrat true believers.