Clinton (Bill) embraces Iraq war

Stories like this are why I read blogs as well as newspapers.  Blogs --a select few anyway, most are crap-- fill in the gaping voids in news coverage by the MSM --the mainstream media.  (of course I also read novels and watch C-Span and the Mariners and le Tour de France.  I'm retired and convalescing.  I have the time.)

The post by Jonathan Schwarz is also a history lesson and political speculation.  It turns out that Bosnia and Iraq aren't as similar as Clinton would have us believe.  As for political motive, Clinton's speech at the Aspen Ideas Festival is clearly an exercise in CHA --covering Hillary's ass on her refusal to apologize for her vote to authorize the Iraq War.  As Kucinich said in the debate the other night, Democrats weren't elected to promote their version of the war.  And he's right, as ususal. 

Here's another blog story.  Do you ever wonder what Elliot Abrams of Iran-Contra infamy did in the wilderness years before he signed on with the  W. Bush Administration?  Well, Fred Clark, the one and only slacktivist, does.  He tells the story in his expose of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, which you've probably never heard of.  Here's the bit about Abrams:

"The most egregious such welfare hiring by the center -- and the point at which its name became nothing more than a bitter, hypocritical joke -- was when it hired Elliott Abrams as its president in 1996. Abrams spent the next six years in this rehab assignment, apparently hoping that having the word "ethics" in his job title would somehow erase the fact of his involvement in one of the most unethical, illegal and reckless foreign policy fiascoes in U.S. history: the Iran-Contra affair."

Another history lesson, impeccably written as always by Mr. Clark. 

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[Himself]

I don't think the world can survive another eight years of the Bush/Clinton dynasty.