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The roof is caving in on Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean, with some now calling for his resignation after he predicted that the U.S. would lose the war in Iraq.

Dean has an excuse, however, for his inexcusable comments. After all - he was only following the lead of the media's favorite ex-president, Bill Clinton, who announced last month that he, too, thought that terrorists would eventually trounce U.S. forces in Iraq.

"The idea that we're going to win the war in Iraq is an idea which is just plain wrong," Dean told a Texas radio station on Monday.

"This is the same situation we had in Vietnam," he declared. "We didn't have a victory [then], and this policy cost the lives of an additional 25,000 troops."

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  Dean's comments echoed those of former Commander-in-Chief Bill Clinton, who told the Ladies Home Journal last month: "The odds are not great of our prevailing [in Iraq]."

Clinton explained: "Since the end of World War II, the only major foreign power that succeeded in putting down an insurgency was the British putting down the Malay insurgency, but the British stayed 15 years."

A few weeks later, while addressing Arab students in Dubai, Clinton continued the defeatist talk, calling the war "a big mistake."

"The American government made several errors," he insisted. "One of which is how easy it would be to get rid of Saddam and how hard it would be to unite the country."

But while the ex-president mostly got a pass, Republicans are now blasting Dean - with one congressman calling for him to step down.

"Regardless of your opinions on Iraq, it is wrong to attack the capabilities of our military for the purposes of political gain," Rep. Jeff Miller said late Tuesday. "I call on Mr. Dean to resign as chairman of the Democratic National Committee."

Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman didn't go quite that far, but he did note: "I can't remember any time in history where the leader of a national party . . . predicted America would lose a war."

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