Dean Invites Clinton to Join His Administration

Democratic Party presidential front-runner Howard Dean indicated this week that he would like ex-President Bill Clinton to play a major foreign policy role in his administration, saying that Clinton is "just the person we need" to oversee peace negotiations in the Middle East.

"I think Bill Clinton is the president who has come the closest to bringing the Israelis and Palestinians together," Dean told CNN's Wolf Blitzer Wednesday night.

The Vermont Democrat said he has called on President Bush to "swallow his pride and call Bill Clinton and ask Bill Clinton to go to the Middle East and begin the process of negotiating."

Then Dean indicated that if Bush wouldn't use Clinton, he would, saying, "Bill Clinton may be just the person we need to put those negotiations back on track."

Reacting to Dean's overture to the ex-president, Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va., said, "Clearly Howard Dean fails to grasp the utter failure of Clinton's foreign policy in the Middle East," according to a statement quoted in the Hotline.

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