I’m not surprised that Governor Dean would oppose [the $87 billion to fund Iraq reconstruction]…. I’ve lost confidence that he has any understanding of the national security responsibilities of a President… [b]ecause I don’t believe that he has any understanding of the international role that the United States has to play in the world. I think it’s a kind of a pseudo-isolationism that appeals to the base of the caucus voters. I do not believe that particularly in the case of Iraq that Governor Dean has any fundamental understanding of what’s at stake here.
