Clinton's Victory In Iraq

MSNBC Slate.com ^ | January 31, 2005 | Glenn Reynolds

[reagandemo]

This guy is really delusional. The Elction went well and now it's not Bush's fault. He gives the credit for Democracy in Iraq to Clinton! Ha what spin.

[RetiredArmy]

Linton's??? Did I miss something?

[reagandemo]

Moderator please correct tittle to read Clinton. Sorry !

[reagandemo]

Da*& keyboard. Short between it and the ground.

[RexBeach]

Shouldn't there be a "Barf Alert" with this posting?

[KC_Conspirator]

Wrongo. This is so outrageous that Reynolds should be fired for incompetence.

[PilloryHillary]

Unbelievable. This guy is COMPLETELY delusional!

[reagandemo]

Barf Alert? No this is a great laugh. I love the smell of RATS self destructing. It smells like VICTORY!

[w1andsodidwe]

I think it's jealousy. Bush-hatred has become all-consuming among a large section of the Democratic Party, and they can't stand the thought of anything that reflects well on him, even if it's good for the country, and if it's something that was their idea originally.

Interesting paragraph. Hits the nail on the head pretty much.

[pissant]

Glenn Reynolds is no left-wing hack. He's the brain behind InstaPundit. Unfortunately, he is dead wrong about Clinton having any responsibility for this day arriving.

[swheats]

How could anyone make the leap that this was Clinton's victory in Iraq?

Amazing! Any victory is Clinton's. It was his military when we gained the victory of the war so quickly.

But any other time it's Bush's screwups that has brought on a quagmire.

[massgopguy]

HR 4655 Sec 2.6 : In April 1993 Iraq orchestrated a failed plot to assassinate former President George Bush during his April 14-16, 1993 visit to Kuwait.

Bill and 'Dubya agree that its a reprisable offense to try to kill an American President. Apparently many on the Left disagree with them.

[kemathen7]

Thats right. Clinton signed a piece of paper a couple of years ago and "POOF!", Iraqi's were liberated. Yep, thats exactly what happened.

So, moral of the story: sign a piece of paper, wait a couple of years and tada! Liberation just happens.

/sarc off

[7.62 x 51mm]

So much raging stupidity and ignorance coming from the liberal-demokkkRAT-progressive-socialist-nazi-commie-fascist party, I can't stand it. Where to start...

[jjmcgo]

Go back and read it again. It's sarcasm. Yeah, he starts out saying Clinton and Gore wanted regime change in Iraq six years ago, then asks why the Dems didn't stay consistent with that policy.

[iceskater]

They're still trying to create a legacy for Clinton.
The Iraq election is NOT Clintons' legacy and never will be no matter how they try and spin it.

Clinton had numerous chances to make a difference - but his actions were always dictated by what the polls said. So he never walked the walk - just talked the talk. He was never a leader and this is just one more example.

[don'tbedenied]

Folks:

The point of this essay is to illustrate that had the D's choose there was enough historical support during the Clinton years to justify supporting America and the Free Iraqis and even talking some of the credit. Of course the tone deaf morons that lead the D's have done just the opposite.
I will tell you this: Billy Jeff woulda seen this train a'coming and gotten on the winning side.

[FormerACLUmember]

Goebells invented the Big Lie technique. The democrat party perfected it.

There are actually vast numbers of gullible morons around who believe this sort of Barbra Streisand B.S. (48% of the voters to be precise)

[Libertarianize the GOP]

This is the kind of mental contortions a liberal must perform in order to accept reality. If they will now get on-board and help with Iraq we can let them worry about their own flawed thinking, the history books will know who deserves the credit.

[niteowl77]

I think that GR is actually pointing out the 'rat disconnect between blame and credit vis-a-vis Iraq.