Check Posts # 9 and 10. Perhaps you are reacting to the very S.F.Chronicle article which Noel is criticizing in his piece. His column is a rebuttal to the pro-Clinton liberal Chronicle writer's apologia for Clinton's failures.
I guess I am just agreeing with him. Remember what Barney Frank said after we initially ran over Saddom's forces. He claimed the war was succesful because that Bush used the Army Clinton created and trained for him. These people have no shame.