[A Quiet Boom]

Cam,

In all fairness to you, how can someone who admits to war crimes (in effect painting themselves as a war criminal) not be painted as a war criminal? The fact is I believe he lied about those "atrocities" to aid his cause against the Vietnam war.

What I really don't understand is that he is on the record as early as 1997 recommending the removal of Saddam Hussein, effectively criticizing Clinton for not doing enough about the problem, yet now that a Republican president actually did it he feels the need to criticize the way in which it was done. He's gone on record saying Bush deceived the American people into war when he himself saw the very same intelligence and voted to give the president the authority to invade Iraq. I'd have a lot more respect if he'd stick by his original agenda (pre GWB) of removing Saddam and drop the symantics.

On the other hand I pi$$sed at Bush (whom I support) for using WMD as the primary reason for the Iraq invasion. I'd bet there would have been far more support for the war if he'd have made the humanitarian case the primary one and terrorism/WMD secondary. Even many liberals could have jumped on this bandwagon since they did afterall support Clinton in Kosovo.

Above all I hate strong partisanship, I supported both Bushes in Iraq, and know why we left the last time (hint: we abided a UN resolution to remove Saddam from Kuwait) as well as Clinton in Kosovo and his bombing campaign in Iraq (which was widely and incorrectly percieved as a diversion from the Monica scandal)