[jim35]

"...If Bill Clinton were the president today, and events in Iraq unfolded over the last year exactly as they have..."

No, because the press would either ignore any bad stories from Iraq, or they would always accentuate the positive stories (you know, the ones we never hear) about reconstruction and the prospect of a free Iraq leading to a stablizing effect in the ME.

[Alberta's Child]

No, because the press would either ignore any bad stories from Iraq, or they would always accentuate the positive stories (you know, the ones we never hear) about reconstruction and the prospect of a free Iraq leading to a stablizing effect in the ME.

Bullsh!t. That's exactly what the press did with regard to Bosnia/Kosovo, and yet nobody here was dumb enough to believe that Bill Clinton and his cronies were anything other than war criminals.