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Caught red-handed now with his vicious attacks on George Bush, who most conservatives had issues with, he now says but for Bush there would have likely been no Obama. That may well be true. I have been a harsh critic of Bush's spending, including in my book. But Chump was calling Bush EVIL and demanded his IMPEACHMENT because of the Iraq war and in the middle of that war. He said Bush lied to get us into Iraq. His comments were vile and outrageous, not unlike the America-hating leftists who sought to undermine are armed forces there. Now he wants us to believe that his criticism of Bush was because Bush's poor record set the stage for Obama? Chump attacked Bush over Iraq because if you were a big-mouth, attention-seeking liberal, it was the thing to do. He had no altruistic or principled conservative motive for doing so at the time and expressed none.

Well, Levin just did performed one of those head-tail inversion gymnastics that destroyed whatever credibility he might have had with me.

There was an altruistic princpled conservative motion for opposing the war in Iraq, or at least three of them:

1. We should not bankrupt the US over something of marginal significance, but we did so.

2. We should not change a winning strategy mid-stream, but we did so. We had Sadam so locked down he could not fly a paper airplane across the palace atrium without shooting it down, but we decided that we should undo what was working, at relatively low cost, and put boots on the ground at enormous cost. Then there is Afghanistan.

3. You don't of your own volition start a war without some idea how it should end and some plan for getting there. As it turns out Bush sold out to the neo-cons without a clue of what should happen or how it shoud happen. Offensive warfare is not poker where you take the risk of drawing a poor hand and have to play the hand you are dealt. Sun Tzu laid it out two millenia ago, but the neo-cons forgot to read that book and Rummy fired generals until he found some who hadn't read it either. Once we got past Rumsfeldt, Cheney, Wolfowitz and a couple of fawning generals we started to do the right things militarily, but geostrategically it was already too late and we were well down the path to public financila bankruptcy.