<p>yup, that’s it - a few people started writing letters and Clinton, the Senate, the UN and the rest of the world’s intelligence community caved.</p>
<p>I’m not criticizing Clinton, I’m criticizing Wolfowitz and Feith and those guys. I agree with pretty much all of what you’ve already posted FF. Plus, I don’t think there was any “big lie” of 98. This was a very very complicated and dangerous situation that all kinds of highly intelligent people were trying their best to deal with to the best of their knowledge and abilities. In fact, I think Clinton did a good job at the time. After 2000 you had a bunch of guys come into power who had this “installing democracy at gunpoint” gameplan and took the first oppty to implement it. They were pushing for regime change during the 90s and if Albright’s quote is correct, then Clinton may have thought about it, but was not barreling full steam ahead.</p>
<p>I think Clinton did a good job. I think Bush no.1 did a good job. I don’t believe there was a “big lie”. I don’t believe there was “genocide”. I do think the 2003 Iraq invasion was, if not a huge mistake, bungled beyond measure. Choosing the next President to clean up W’s mess will be one of the most impt decisions any of us will ever be asked to make.</p>
<p>“It was created from whole (Democratic) cloth.”</p>
<p>I was reacting to this statement with my Wolfowitz comment.</p>
<p>We are in deep s**t in the middle east. There isn’t anything funny or cute about it. It’s going to take a lot more than a cute song on You Tube to get us out of this fix and that’s why I’m worried about the basis on which people are going to make their voting decisions. Between the delusions as to what the facts are and the revival tent atmosphere, coupled with who the nominees might be, it could keep me awake at night…</p>