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Friday, March 23, 2007

Quote du jour

“It’s just not fair to say that people who voted for the resolution wanted war.” -- Former pResident Bill Clinton, petulantly whining about how Hillary's long-standing pro-war stance has been characterized by some as a long-standing pro-war stance. According to The Hill, Clintons
aid he had re-read the Iraq resolution last week, and that his wife had voted only for "coercive inspections." Clinton justified his wife's refusal to apologize for her vote by explaining that she was acting out of concern that future presidents might need similar language authorizing "coercive inspections to avoid conflict."
That "future president" line was BS when Nixon used it, and continues to be now that a former pResident uses it to defend the untenable position of a possible future pResident. And Hillary never mentioned "coercive inspections" in her absurd speech supporting her war vote in 2002. She did, however, mention her insider's view of the Iraq situation during her eight years in the White House, conveniently failing to mention that she should then have known better than anyone that Saddam wasn't a threat in the least to the US.

Despite Bubba's petulant twittery in a fundraising conference call on behalf of Shillary, the prize for best petulant twittery of the day goes, once again, to the current pResident.
Here in Washington, members of both parties recognize that our most solemn responsibility is to support our troops in the war on terror. Yet, today, a narrow majority in the House of Representatives abdicated its responsibility by passing a war spending bill that has no chance of becoming law, and brings us no closer to getting our troops the resources they need to do their job.
How dare a "narrow majority" of elected representatives dare tell the king what to do! AWol continues:
The purpose of the emergency war spending bill I requested was to provide our troops with vital funding. Instead, Democrats in the House, in an act of political theater, voted to substitute their judgment for that of our military commanders on the ground in Iraq. They set rigid restrictions that will require an army of lawyers to interpret.
Gee, George, you just fired an army of lawyers--let's get 'em back to work!

Now, I think the Dems bill is absurd and outrageous--another #121 billion tossed into the latrine, while a couple thousand more Americans and a couple hundred thousand Iraqis die? The only thing more absurd is Bush's position.

As always, when Bush says something stupid (as always), WIIIAI provides the commentary.