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Hillary Clinton needs
this like she needs another breast.
During a campaign swing for his wife, former President Bill Clinton said
flatly yesterday that he opposed the war in Iraq “from the beginning”
— a statement that is more absolute than his comments before the invasion
in March 2003.
HillaryHub diligently
defends Hillary’s other half, but this quote hardly does it: “… ..
I’m for regime change too, but there’s more than one way to do it.
We don’t invade everybody whose regime we want to change. There’s
more than one way to do this, but if that passes and he actually disarms, then
we have to be willing to take it, and then work for regime change by supporting
the opposition to Saddam Hussein within and outside Iraq, and doing other things.”
Regime change is bad foreign policy any way you cut it, whether we’re talking
Iraq or any other country on the globe. That’s the real point that many are
missing in their harangues, which rightly point out that Mr. Clinton was abjectly
silent (to add, that is on saying that he was opposed to the war, though he said a lot of other things) on the issue when Bush was going in. Now, you can say that was out of
presidential deference, but considering we’re talking war I’d say that’s where
this stuff stops. But to former president’s war is the water’s edge where on president should not excoriate another.
The other issue is that Hillary is giving a big health care speech today. However,
the media line is all about Bill. That the stories include Iraq doesn’t do her
any good either, especially since she’s moved a football field away from where
she started. Her
letter to Bush on his enduring friendship nonsense didn’t get any press
either, even though she committed to no
permanent bases in Iraq (as has Obama and Edwards, but they’re not married to Bill), with an added punch towards the president. But
when the Big Dog barks, all pundits reply. There’s a smorgasbord of items to
choose from on which Bill could pontificate. Iraq is the worst among them. He
doesn’t know that by now?
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