Today John F. Kerry called for Donald Rumsfeld to resign. Howard Dean promptly screamed, “Yeaaargh! And Wolfowitz too!”

KERRY, A SENATOR from Massachusetts, first said Thursday that Rumsfeld should step down, saying he proceeded in Iraq “in an arrogant, inappropriate way that has frankly put America at jeopardy.”

Dean, the former governor of Vermont, joined the call Friday and added Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz to the list of those who should quit. Dean announced that he was starting a national petition drive on the Internet to demonstrate support for their resignations.

Christine Iverson, a spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee, said Dean and Kerry were “playing a game of political copycat. If John Kerry calls for one administration official to resign, Howard Dean has to call for two.”

UPDATE: Sorry for the confusion; due to operator error, the story linked above is out of date. Initial reports that Kerry called for Rumsfeld to resign have now been amended to say that he dodged the issue: Kerry Says Bush Slow to Act on Iraq Prisoner Abuse.

In his first public remarks on the growing controversy, Kerry sidestepped the question of whether Bush should offer an outright apology or whether Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld should resign over the incident.

Note however that we have another blatant flip-flop here; in September 2003 Kerry called for Rumsfeld to resign. Now, on May 5, 2004, suddenly he’s bobbing and weaving.