Matthew Reimer writing for Yellow Times had this to say about Clinton’s defense of Bush’s lies:
[YellowTimes.org] — Undoubtedly, all the die hard political partisans were shocked this week when Bill Clinton came out and essentially exonerated the Bush administration for its manipulation of critical intelligence and lying to the world in support of its drive to war.
Clinton told Larry King: “You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are president. I mean, you can’t make as many calls as you have to make without messing up once in awhile. The thing we ought to be focused on is what is the right thing to do now. That’s what I think.”
The former president also went on subtly to bolster the Bush administration’s case for war: “People can quarrel with whether we should have more troops in Afghanistan or internationalize Iraq or whatever, but it is incontestable that on the day I left office, there were unaccounted for stocks of biological and chemical weapons.”
I mentioned here it amazes me that the same people who vilified Clinton aren’t also accusing Bush of “wagging the dog” and by this I mean the voters, not the pundits or the gov’t hawks. If the people in the street listening to Limbaugh or praying at the altar of the DLC are who Reimer refers to, I agree. They’ll never attempt to examine anything that might crack the walls of their partisan enclosures.
The upper echelon die-hards and their detractors weren’t shocked at all. Clinton and the DLC are very much in keeping with this reordering of the Middle East as bad cop Lieberman dutifully demonstrated when he scolded the antiwar candidates this week for their attacks on the Bush administration [via Best of the Blogs]:
Lieberman’s comments came one day after he delivered a foreign policy address accusing his antiwar rivals of sending out a message that they “don’t know a just war when they see it.”
Bush in turn has taken yet another page from dear old Bill:
President Bush on Wednesday accepted personal responsibility for a controversial portion of last winter’s State of the Union address dealing with claims that Saddam Hussein was seeking nuclear material in Africa.
“I take personal responsibility for everything I say, absolutely,” the president said at a White House news conference where he sought to quell a controversy that has dogged his administration for weeks.
Good! If memory serves me right impeachment hearings are just around the corner.