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It is difficult to think of Hillary Clinton as an avatar of George Bush, but there is no escaping the thought. Just this week, when Republicans in the U.S. Congress were voting on limiting the U.S.'s involvement in the current Libyan conflict, Ms. Clinton threw out the angry question: "Whose side are you on?" The question is a remarkably faithful echo of Mr. Bush's own famous challenge of "You are either with us or against us in the war against terrorism." For his disdainful critics, that "either with us or against us" formulation was the quintessential Bushism -a reductive, simplistic,...

Liberals like to claim that GW Bush is trapped in a quagmire in Iraq. However, when it comes to being captive to irrational thinking, no one can top liberals. Consider, please, the liberal position on several current issues and the quagmire such thinking produces: *Rising gasoline prices are devastating to working Americans,but protecting obscure organisms at the bottom of the food chain is of greater concern. Which is why drilling for oil & adding refining capacity are unacceptable. * Large profits are obscenely un-American, except when it comes to George Soros, Oprah Winfrey and other liberals. *Illegal aliens deserve driver’s...