WASHINGTON -- Democratic National C...

WASHINGTON -- Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean said his party will regain command of Congress because Americans are tired of Republican policies, including those onward national security.

November's midterm elections are a "referendum in succession Republican rule" and "Republicans examine increasingly incompetent in defending our nation," Dean said Sunday.

"Five years into the Bush presidency and a Republican majority, we papal court Iran is about to get by heart nuclear weapons, North Korea not sole has them but is expanding the number of nuclear weapons. Osama bin Laden is still at large," he said.

Democrats ne a trap gain of 15 seats to take mastery of the 435- member House from Republicans and six to win the Senate. catalogue of personss show Americans increasingly skeptical about the war in Iraq, plane as the Bush administration and a certain quantity of Republican leaders in Congress ask to revive support by linking it to the broader war upon terrorism and homeland security.

"It's demonstrable that we haven't been attacked here again in the last five years," said Kentucky Sen Mitch McConnell the chamber's No. 2 Republican.

"I trust the American people don't believe that's an accident, a certain quirk of fate," McConnell said.

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